Join Newton Abbot Racecourse on Easter Saturday and enjoy an afternoon of thrilling jumps racing.
To celebrate the Easter weekend, there is a free Easter egg for the first 200 children through the gates on the day.
Racing for the afternoon starts at 13:15, with gates opening at 11:15. The last race will be at 16:45.
The Family Enclosure will return for the first time this season. With a selection of giant garden games and inflatables, parents can relax and enjoy the racing from the centre of the course while the children are kept entertained. The Family Enclosure...
Plymouth Yacht Haven has been awarded the highest honour in the marine industry, the prestigious Five Gold Anchors by The Yacht Harbour Association (TYHA), for the second time in succession.
The Gold Anchor award rates the quality, level of service and overall standard of a marina’s offering. Perceived as the pinnacle for all marinas, Plymouth Yacht Haven received the highest possible...
New statistics show the majority of parents in the South West believe stopping children being exposed to junk food adverts could cut childhood obesity, as the British Heart Foundation (BHF) delivered a 30,000 strong petition to ban the adverts before 9pm to Britain’s most famous street.
The BHF polled 2,000 UK parents and found 67% of parents in the South West believe that stopping...
Police are appealing for information after a distinctive electric guitar was stolen from a van in the Mutley area of Plymouth.
The black and white Danelectro 12-string guitar was stolen, along with a red-striped guitar case and bag of tools, from a white Vauxhall van parked in Seaton Avenue, sometime between 5.30am and 6.30am on Tuesday 24 March.
New research identifies emerging social tribes –‘first time flyers’, ‘first time triers’ and ‘renting lifers’
Families in the South West who are never able to get on the property ladder will be more than £603,800 worse off over their lifetime than those who can buy a home in their twenties, new research from Shelter shows.
The unique study by the housing charity paints a...
Plymouth University has retained its title as the supreme champion of student enterprise after winning a prestigious national competition for the fifth time in eight years.
A team of six students this week took part in the two-day finale of FLUX 500, which encourages budding entrepreneurs to solve a business challenge before pitching to a panel of judges.
Plymouth’s pitch to investors around the globe is being launched this week.
Development opportunities, the best waterfront living in the country as well as the chance to be at the forefront of marine and science technology, are being highlighted in the guide that will be distributed across the UK and overseas through the UKTI.
Eighty per cent of businesses in the South West feel inspired to grow, and 87% feel capable of doing so. However, the government’s Do More Online campaign is highlighting the risk that small businesses will be hampered because they are not doing enough online and are missing out on opportunities to find more customers, be more efficient, and save money.
Two disused allotment sites will be getting a make-over this spring as work starts to bring them back into use as part of a Community Landshare Scheme.
The first two sites to be delivered as part of this scheme will be at Lower Swarthmore in Central Park and on land at the back of Channel Park Avenue in Efford. These sites will provide around 50 new growing plots. Both of these sites...
Barbican Theatre is delighted to announce that they have secured £19,720 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to work in partnership with Plymouth City Council’s Arts and Heritage service on an exciting project, giving audiences a completely new perspective on the Elizabethan House on the Barbican.
A Blast from the Past; and Back Again is a project that will enable emerging artists...
