Work is starting on Plymouth’s historic Mount Batten Tower next week which could help the building attract more visitors.
Contractors will be putting up scaffolding around the tower ahead of a programme of work which will see a new rail or balustrade installed around the top of the tower as well as handrails on the outside staircase.
Brighton folk punk band Levellers will play their classic album in full plus other hits on a mammoth UK tour supported by Ferocious Dog to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of their second full-length, and now classic, album.
Their platinum-selling 1991 album Levelling The Land features the hit singles One Way, 15 Years and Far From Home plus The Game, Liberty Song, Sell...
Plymouth University students have paid tribute to those who have made their University experience ‘exceptional’ by holding a special awards ceremony on campus.
Dozens, including the University’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Judith Petts, attended the SSTAR (Student, Staff, Teaching and Representation) Awards last week, which recognise outstanding achievements in teaching and learning....
The Heart of the South West LEP is running a series of free Pop-Up Business Cafés at established café venues across the area and will be coming to Exeter on 27th April at Fresha Cafe between 8am till12 o’clock.
They are informal events co-hosted with local business organisations offering one-to-one ‘no pressure, no sales pitch’ advice from volunteer business experts, White Bruce, Elm...
Officers from Devon, Cornwall and Dorset’s Road Policing Team will be mounting a week long campaign, targeting drivers of all types of vehicles who flout road traffic laws on roads.
Operation Vortex targets poor, inconsiderate and complacent driving across the region and aims to reduce the number of collisions and casualties on our roads.
Stagecoach South West has announced that, starting from Sunday 1st May, new timetables are being introduced on its 2/A and Coypool Park & Ride services.
The 2/2A service route is changing in both Plymstock and Saltash. Service 2 buses will continue onto Mount Batten every 20 minutes using the current route. The 2A will now serve Elburton every 20 minutes via a new loop along...
THE first shrouded figures in an astonishing grand-scale art installation in memory of those who fell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have gone on sale.
Artist Rob Heard is creating 19,240 hand-stitched figurines to represent each man who died on that day, one hundred years ago, at the beginning of the notorious World War I battle.
As part of ‘City Centre Clean Week’ (4 to 8 April), a team of eight stalwart City Centre cleaners clocked-up over 264.85 miles between them.
In addition to their normal duties and upgrading the bins throughout the city with larger capacity ones, the team managed to transform Plymouth’s empty and rather muddy, Civic Centre pond to its former glory and rid the Civic Centre building of...
The Old Clay Factory at Redlake (between Ivybridge and Bittaford) will host its first ever Vintage, Antiques and Collectors Fair on Sunday 8th May.
This historical building sits between Bittaford and Ivybridge and is seen as a hub for all communities within a radius comprising the South Hams and Plymouth. The former clay building, with its distinctive chimney stack has different event...
Exeter Chiefs and England Rugby superstar Jack Nowell was among 250 guests at a special gala dinner in aid of a project to remember 19,240 Allied servicemen who lost their lives on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
This year marks 100 years since the bloodiest day in British military history and the 19240 Shrouds of the Somme project aims to bring into sharp focus the true...
