Over 400 new, bigger litter bins have been installed across the city as part of a comprehensive review of what bins are where, their size and condition.
Larger multi-use bins have appeared in parks, on streets and playing fields over the past few months as part of the Council’s plan to keep the city cleaner and greener.
The bigger bins can also be used for bagged dog waste,...
Students at Plympton Academy have been celebrating some fantastic A Level and BTEC results this year with overall student progress again increasing from previous years. A quarter of results were at the highest grades of A*, A or Distinction* in A level and BTEC, with 79% at A*- C or Distinction*/ Merit across the A level and BTEC range. This year’s overall pass rate for A Levels and BTEC...
Earlier this year, a team of patient representatives undertook their annual inspection of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, in order to assess the quality of the patient environment.
Now, the results released by the NHS Commissioning Board today show that the hospital has improved in all of the measured areas, therefore supporting the value of taking on-board patient feedback.
High energy, high kicking and gloriously glamorous, the acclaimed Watermill Theatre production of Crazy for You is the ultimate feel-good musical starring Tom Chambers (Top Hat and Strictly Come Dancing), Caroline Flack (Strictly Come Dancing, Love Island, The X Factor) and Charlotte Wakefield (Sound Of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) as ‘Polly’, featuring a fabulous score from the Gershwin brothers’ songbook.
Crazy For You charts the troubled love story of Bobby, son of a wealthy New York banking family and frustrated Broadway hoofer, and Polly, daughter of the proprietor of a...
New Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism, John Glen, visited Plymouth and the Mayflower 400 team on Monday, 14 August 2017.
The Minister’s visit recognises the importance of the 2020 Mayflower commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ historic journey across the Atlantic, and the celebration of Plymouth as Britain’s Ocean City.
After the success of Buckets (2016) Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Young Company return to the stage with The Blue Road on Wednesday 23 – Saturday 26 August in The Drum.
The forest. The wake of an unnamed crisis. A group of young people work to make sense of what happened, what it means, and what they will do now.
The Blue Road is an exciting new play by acclaimed writer Laura Lomas...
Plymouth’s plan to transform and modernise its libraries is getting into gear with funding for the first set of improvement projects now approved.
Meeting spaces are to be created in three existing libraries at Crownhill, Devonport and Southway so that the buildings can host a wider range of events to encourage people to use libraries as places to socialise and improve their health and...
The New Vic Theatre’s celebrated production of Jules Verne’s Around The World In 80 Days adapted by Laura Eason and directed by Theresa Heskins comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth Tuesday 12 – Saturday 16 September.
Theresa Heskins’ production of Around The World In 80 Days first premiered at the New Vic Theatre in 2013 followed by a successful season at the Royal Exchange Theatre,...
Officer Cadet Daniel Russell, a 23-year-old from Plymouth, has joined the ranks of the British Army’s next generation of leaders, after passing out in a prestigious graduation ceremony at the world renowned Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Passing out from Sandhurst marks the completion of 44 weeks of intensive military and academic training, combined with adventurous training and...
Police are appealing for witnesses to a single-vehicle collision at Lee Moor, Plymouth, on Thursday 10 August, which left a motorcyclist with life-changing injuries.
Emergency services were called at 6.15pm after the collision involving a red Yamaha motorcycle on the B3417.
The rider, a 20-year-old man from Plymouth, suffered life-changing spinal injuries and was taken to...
