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When Love Becomes Advocacy

As Carers Week prompts conversations about supporting unpaid carers, I’ve found myself reflecting on something that has touched both my professional and personal life recently: advocacy.

And more specifically, what it feels like when advocacy is not a professional role, but something...

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Landlords told to sort out properties

More landlords are being told to sort their property as part of the Council’s Operation Restore.

‘Untidy Land’ notices are being posted out on the following sites ordering the owners to carry out works necessary to improve the buildings’ appearance to an acceptable degree.

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• God TV revival prayer centre, Union Street • C103 Club Union Street • Victoria Snooker...

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Arts Council funding success for Plymouth History Centre

Plans to transform Plymouth’s museum and art gallery into a new world class visitor attraction have taken a giant step forward with the award of £4.2 million funding from the Arts Council.

The Arts Council funding to help create a major new cultural attraction at the heart of the city is in addition to £12.8m from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £8m from Plymouth City Council.

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Sign up for Plymouth Race for Life

Plymouth women are being urged to get the New Year off to a great start by signing up now to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life 2016.

The charity is calling on women of all shapes and sizes to show cancer who’s boss by choosing their event - Race for Life 5k at The Hoe or Pretty Muddy at Central Park – and committing to take part.

Although many see January as the perfect...

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Make your mark: sign up for Plymouth's Half Marathon

Last New Year, 2.6 million people in the UK decided to change their diet and exercise habits in a bid to shape up.

However, within two weeks, 92 percent had already ditched their resolution in favour of returning to their old ways.

If health and fitness tops your New Year's resolution list in 2016, why not set yourself the ultimate goal of completing Plymouth’s Half Marathon?...

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Plymouth Civic Centre sold to Urban Splash

Plymouth City Council has now completed the sale of the listed building with the company that helped transform the city’s Royal William Yard, taking it from a disused Naval supplies base to a thriving residential community and much-loved destination with diverse offer covering office, retail and food and drink operators.

Urban Splash Director Nathan Cornish said: “We’re really excited...

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SW children glued to their screens

Nearly a quarter of South West parents (23 per cent) struggle to get their children to “unplug” and take part in activities away from television, phone and computer screens, according to a survey published by Action for Children.

When asked which behaviour they found most difficult to control in their children, more South West parents said they struggled to limit technology-based...

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Fugue Stage at Plymouth’s Ocean Studios

Between the 8th and the 29th of January 2016, The Factory Cooperage Gallery in Plymouth’s Royal William Yard will host Fugue State, a combined exhibition, funded by the Arts Council England, featuring Ocean Studios’ residents Jack Carberry-Todd and Rhys Morgan.

The exhibition explores the themes of human desire and greed set against a need for the romantic. Both artists’ works are...

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Don’t forget your tax return in January

When returning to work after the festive season it is easy to forget that your self-assessment tax return deadline is less than month away.

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is reminding everyone who completes an online tax return to make sure the deadline isn’t forgotten when catching up after the break.

Chas Roy-Chowdhury, ACCA head of taxation, said...

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New year, new focus for Ridgeway School

2016 is going to be a busy year for the students and staff at Ridgeway School in Plympton.

The school has a new leader, Lisa Boorman, and is set to have a new name, uniform and logo for the start of the September academic term.

Ms Boorman said; “The January league table will show the real progress that Ridgeway School made in 2015, this year we’ll be building on that success –...

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Weather warning of more rain for Devon

The Met Office has issued another weather warning as heavy rain is set to return to the region this evening.

A band of heavy rain will move in from the west, arriving in Cornwall late on Wednesday afternoon, then affecting the rest of southwest England and south Wales through the evening and overnight, before clearing from most areas towards dawn on Thursday.

Forecasters are...

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