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Burrington Estates Notre Dame Site Manager wins Quality Award

Burrington Estates New Homes Site Manager, Gary O’Gorman, has been recognised by the NHBC with a Pride in the Job Award for his development at Notre Dame, Looseleigh Lane, Plymouth.

Gary has been recognised for his outstanding quality and personal pride on the development of six luxury homes.

Gary said, ‘It’s a real pleasure to be recognised for something you love to do. My...

Prominent high street investment in Saltash

Investors are being steered to a landmark retail/office building in Saltash.

Brunel House on Lower Fore Street is being marketed by Mark Slade from Bruton Knowles’ Plymouth office with offers invited in the region of £325,000 for the freehold.

The premises which are laid out over three floors are currently let to Coral Racing Ltd on the ground floor, with United Care Concepts...

#TimeToSign PR2: Plymouth calls for Government to consider ‘soft opt out’ on organ donation

Plymouth City Council is calling on the Government to consider a ‘soft opt out’ system on organ donation, following last week’s launch of the #TimeToSign organ donation campaign.

The Council has put forward a motion backing a move away from people having to ‘opt-in’ to organ donation, to the system backed by both the British Medical Association (BMA) of a ‘soft opt out system’, under...

ACE funding news for Plymouth's History Centre

The good news about Plymouth’s History Centre keeps coming.

Project partners have just learned that Arts Council England (ACE) has given the green light to a full funding request of £4,175,000.

Councillor Ian Bowyer, Leader of Plymouth City Council said: “This is yet more brilliant news - news that will really help us to achieve our ambitions. Arts Council England’s support is...

Awards call goes out to Devon farmers

Farmers across Devon are being reminded that they have until February 26 to nominate their friends, neighbours and local farming heroes for this year’s Devon Farm Business Awards, staged by the Addington Fund, Devon County Agricultural Association and Stephens Scown Solicitors.

There are six categories for which farmers can enter or be nominated: best commercial farmer, best dairy...

Recycle your real Christmas trees

Plymouth City Council’s successful Christmas tree collection scheme starts next week.

The special tree collections start on Monday 11 January and run right up until Thursday 21 January.

All people have to do is to put the trees out next to their bins or bags and a separate crew will pick it up on the day their rubbish and recycling is collected.

The tree rounds operate...

DCET celebrates 20 years

DCET Training, formally known as Devon & Cornwall Electrical Training and based in Exeter, celebrates its 20th birthday this week and heads into its 21st year with a record Apprentice intake for the 2015/2016 academic year, as well as expansion into Bristol.

DCET Training has become the leading specialist in electrical training and prides itself on delivering high quality training...

Devils to face Sheffield

Plymouth Skills Group Devils v Sheffield Window Center Tigers

Premier League, St Boniface Arena, Plymouth. 7.15pm Friday May 15, 2015

PLYMOUTH face a stiff test when they take on Sheffield in the Premier League at the St Boniface Arena on Friday evening (7.15pm), writes Graham Hambly.

The Yorkshire side were one of the early leaders in the table and have already picked...

Pop into 1st Stop on No Smoking Day for help to quit

Plymouth residents wanting support to quit smoking can pop into Plymouth City Council’s 1st Stop in New George Street on No Smoking Day, Wednesday 11 March.

As part of Spring into March Week, run in partnership between Plymouth Community Healthcare’s Livewell team and Plymouth City Council, stop smoking advisors will be on hand on No Smoking Day and throughout the week to provide...

High Streets have weathered worst of downturn

A number of key towns across the West Country have registered the largest quarterly fall in empty shops since 2006, according to Colliers International’s latest research.

Colliers International’s National Retail Barometer for Q3 2014 shows that the average void rate across the UK by number of units now stands at 13 per cent. Bournemouth, Chippenham, Plymouth and Worcester were among 12...

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