Work gets underway this week at Weston Mill Cemetery on a new memorial garden.
The new garden is designed around 250 solid granite memorial vaults. Each vault is designed to hold up to two sets of cremated remains and comes with a plaque that gives families a choice of personalised artwork to commemorate their loved one.
The garden is an expansion of the range of onsite...
Dementia Friendly shopping is returning to Plymouth later this month.
The Dementia Friendly Shopping Day on Thursday 13 July is for shoppers affected by dementia that would like some assistance in three city centre stores.
Marks and Spencer and Boots in Drake Circus and Wilko in the Armada Centre will be participating and shoppers are invited to book a personal supported...
Next week, fertility specialists from the South West Centre for Reproductive Medicine (SWCRM), based in Derriford Hospital, will host an open evening, aimed at those who are thinking of starting a family but who have concerns or worries about their fertility.
As well as providing advice and guidance on a range of options, including lifestyle changes and fertility treatments, our...
MTV UK have announced that chart toppers Clean Bandit and British DJ Jax Jones will complete the amazing line-up for this year’s MTV Crashes Plymouth.
Day One of the biggest music event in the South West (Thursday 27 July) will see Clean Bandit, Sigma with guest Birdy, Charli XCX , Busted, and Louisa Johnson wow the crowds.
If that isn’t enough excitement, Club MTV on Day Two (...
Ten new, brightly coloured picnic benches have been installed around Plymouth’s City Centre hand made by jobseekers with learning difficulties.
The benches have been made by talented jobseekers at Pluss Training, an award winning national organisationthat helps thousands of people with disabilities find careers.
They have replaced existing benches in the centre - which had...
Wimbledon fever is mounting as Plymouth gears up to lay on its very own Centre Court spectacle for tennis fans.
The city centre will be transformed for the Wimbledon fortnight – from July 3 to 16 - with the Big Screen showing every grunt and backspin as the world’s tennis elite battle it out for supremacy.
The tension will be palpable as the likes of Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal...
Plymouth is sometimes overlooked in lists of interesting places in the UK, but there are many things to celebrate about our fine city. There is so much history, things to see and do and so many reasons to be thankful for this city. Yes, it has suffered heavy WWII bomb damage, but it has been revived in recent years to where locals and tourists alike can enjoy all there is to offer. We have the...
The city centre will be transformed for the Wimbledon fortnight – from July 3 to 16 - with the Big Screen showing every grunt and backspin as the world’s tennis elite battle it out for supremacy.
The tension will be palpable as the likes of Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Venus Williams fight for every ace and advantage.
And hundreds are expected to gather to watch the world’s...
To celebrate Wimbledon Royal William Yard will have a tennis twist for the next two weeks.
The award-winning Good Food Market will feature Wimbledon cookies from Karen’s Cakes as well as great local produce from local traders this Sunday, July 2nd around the Factory Cooperage or on the Lawn.
The monthly market, which hosts over 60 regular stallholders, is now the biggest food...
Luke Pollard the newly elected MP for Plymouth Sutton & Devonport will be holding an Open Meeting for Constituents at Keyham Green Spaces Community Centre, 163 Renown Street, Keyham, Plymouth, PL2 2DT between 2:30 and 4:30 on Saturday 1st July 2017.
Luke said: “When I was speaking to people during the election campaign they told me that they find Politicians remote and that they...
