Plymouth

Season of success leads to expansion for stalls at Plymouth Market

Just months after opening in Plymouth Market, two start-up businesses are already expanding into larger premises following a successful first season.

Bibs and Bows for Little Toes and The Artist’s Palette are relocating to spacious perimeter units along the Market Avenue wall to accommodate their increasing customer numbers.

Meanwhile long-established M’s boutique has moved...

Get involved with Plymouth’s new community park

The team from Poole Farm who are behind Derriford’s new Community Park want the public to get involved with the next phase of the park’s development.

Over 200 volunteers have already planted 900 metres of new hedgerow to help improve the condition of the land along Seaton Valley for the benefit of wildlife, biodiversity and the surrounding communities.

The Council is creating a...

Talk: Plymouth in the Roaring Twenties - Chris Robinson

Artist, author and broadcaster, Chris Robinson, has been writing about Plymouth for 40 years. He has produced dozens of books about the City including Plymouth in the Twenties and Thirties.

His lavishly illustrated talk will look at the music, theatre, sport, entertainment and politics of Plymouth in the Roaring Twenties.

£6/£4.20/Friends free. Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

The Crown Estate re-appoints Bond Dickinson to EMI legal panel

National law firm Bond Dickinson LLP, which has a large office in Plymouth, has been re-appointed to The Crown Estate's Energy Minerals and Infrastructure legal panel to advise on its Minerals and Infrastructure portfolio.

Bond Dickinson will continue to advise The Crown Estate’s minerals and infrastructure business, including its interests in marine aggregates and subsea cables and...

Plymouth base will service Middle East fish-farming industry

Fish farming in the desert may sound like science fiction – but a new firm based in Plymouth will help turn the dream into a reality – and create new jobs in the process.

Nova Scotia–based Sustainable Fish Farming Canada is to open a subsidiary business in Plymouth supplying fish farm pumps, tanks and equipment to the Middle East.

The fish farming pioneers have taken 14,500 ft...

Soapbox Children’s Theatre presents The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Hot on the heels of Stiltskin’s successful run of Igloo we are proud to announce the latest show at The Soapbox Children’s Theatre is The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse. This show runs throughout March and will delight young audiences.

The story follows the tale of Country Mouse excitedly waiting for a visit from his cousin, Town Mouse. When town Mouse arrives, he can not see her...

Music: Plymouth Music Accord Fundraising Concert

Raising funds to support music and musicians in Plymouth

Mayflower Trio Pete Twyman B.E.M and Douglas Clarkson, clarinets Mila Collier, piano

Mendelssohn: Concertpiece No.1 for two clarinets and piano in F minor Op.113 Ponchielli: Il Convegno (The Meeting), Divertimento for two clarinets and piano Op.86 Tausche: Double Clarinet Concerto No.2 Op.26

Plymouth Music Accord is a registered charity supporting the appreciation and performance of music around Plymouth for the benefit of all and particularly young people.

Activities include funding tickets for...

Local Studies Day 2017

Kick starting the 2017 Plymouth History Festival, this day is packed with talks and presentations about heritage. It includes the Restoration, the Victorian era and an update about the Plymouth History Centre project.

Local Studies Day is organised by Plymouth City Council’s Arts and Heritage Service, in partnership with the Library Service, Plymouth University, Peninsula Arts and the Old Plymouth Society.

09:00 - 16:30. Tickets £12, booking via www.plymhearts.org/whats-on/local-studies-day-2017/

Exclusive Interactive Experience comes to VUE

The next generation of immersive film experience has arrived. Vue is taking cinematic adventures to another level with Late Shift, the world's first mobile-interactive film.

With one beginning – but hundreds of possible storylines and different decision points, Late Shift takes fans to a world beyond cinema, giving them the chance to control the direction of the film via their...

National award win for Plymouth Parkinson’s Service

Massive congratulations to the Neurology Parkinson’s Service at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, winners at the first UK Parkinson’s Excellence Network Awards.

The awards, which took place on Friday 3 March 2017 in Leicestershire, were the first of their kind and recognised and celebrated the outstanding services that make a difference to people in the UK affected by Parkinson’s.

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