Plymouth Armed Forces Week is an annual event held in support of the national Armed Forces Day initiative (25 and 26 June).
With 50,000 attending the event last year we are continuing to improve our annual event on the glorious Plymouth Hoe, and with this in mind we are developing a spectacular two day event which will be known as Armed Forces Weekend, in association with Babcock...
In a recent JLL survey of top international corporate occupiers and UK-based investors into their business attitudes to the EU referendum, 80% held the view that the UK will vote to remain in the EU.
The survey also revealed attitudes of corporates and investors to future property market decisions in the event of a Brexit. 60% of the investors surveyed felt that there would be no...
A closure order has been granted on a house in Plymouth after repeated complaints of anti-social behaviour, violence and drug dealing.
Plymouth Magistrates granted the order on 86 Keat Street after ongoing issues which made life difficult for neighbours. The order was applied for by Plymouth City Council’s Anti-Social Behaviour Team following an approach by Devon and Cornwall Police,...
Reports of steadily increasing confidence around Plymouth’s business community have been seconded by commercial property agents Bruton Knowles – who are reporting more deals and increased activity on the city’s industrial estates.
Mark Slade from the firm’s Lockyer Street office has already let a clutch of buildings on the city’s principal industrial sites and has instructions on a...
A LIVELY day is planned for Ivybridge’s annual Lions Funday this July and organisers are looking out for people to take part.
The Funday, set for Saturday, July 9th, is open to all and will have Circus Skills, Fairground Rides and a slide as well as a ‘Funtasia jungle run’.
Ivybridge Rugby Club will host the event, which is in its fourteenth year. Lion President Adam Winzer said “Over the last fourteen years the event has grown and grown. People of all ages come to the event for a day of fun and entertainment. There is...
Catholic charity CAFOD, has today launched an emergency appeal to help millions of people facing hunger in Ethiopia.
CAFOD is appealing to its supporters across Plymouth for urgent funds to help more than 10 million people across the East African country who are in dire need of food, clean water and basic sanitation.
CAFOD’s partners in Ethiopia have been responding to the...
Specialist contractors have started ground investigations for the new Forder Valley Link Road.
Trial pits and boreholes are being dug along the proposed route of the new link road and at the Forder Valley Road/Novorossiysk Road junction to confirm the ground conditions and help guide the next stage of design.
The surveys began on Monday 6 June and each one should be completed,...
The site in the West End of the city centre has been a hive of construction over the last few months and we have some great timelapse footage, so that you can see change happening on the ground.
Contractors SWH Civils has given us the latest footage of work completed in April and we also have footage from February and March to get a real sense of progress. To view http://bit.ly/1X8INU2...
