Apprentices in Plymouth now have the chance to get their first step on the career ladder by entering this year's Top Trade Apprentice award.
The competition, organised by Screwfix which has a store in Plymouth, launched on 6 February to find and reward the best trade apprentice in the UK and to ensure their future in their chosen industry looks bright.
A closure order on a flat in Plymouth has been extended for a further three months to prevent further drugs and anti-social behaviour.
Plymouth City Council applied to District Judge Baker, sitting at Plymouth Magistrates on Tuesday 7 February to extend the closure order on 3E Teats Hill. The original closure order was granted in November 2016.
Kate Nicholls, Head of Innovation at leading learning company, Sponge UK has won a second award recognising her talent as a digital learning designer.
At the Learning and Performance Institute’s (LPI) Learning Awards, she was named Learning Professional of the Year (bronze winner) at a gala evening on Thursday, February 2 at The Dorchester, London.
Plymouth women are being encouraged to kick-start their New Year by signing up to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
The New Year is a great time to embark upon a new challenge and the charity is urging women of all ages, shapes and sizes to enter Race for Life 5k at the Hoe, Plymouth on Sunday 18 June, or Race for Life Pretty Muddy at Central Park, Plymouth on Sunday 1 October....
Plymouth’s young people turned out in force at the weekend to vote in the city’s UK Youth Parliament elections.
A total of 6417 young people voted, which is a 24 per cent increase from last year and the highest ever number of voters in a Plymouth UK Youth Parliament election.
Plymouth’s new Members of Youth Parliament are George Hadjiyiannakis and Alizeh Abdul Rahman. Deputy...
CATERed, Plymouth’s school meal provider has just launched a competition to recruit a number of nine and 10-year-old pupils, who have a real interest in food and healthy eating from schools across Plymouth, to form Ed’s Citywide Children’s Food Panel.
One of the main goals of CATERed is that children and young people are at the heart of everything they do and in order to make sure that...
Plymouth’s Waterfront traders have received their ballot papers ahead of a crucial “yes” or “no” vote to continue the area’s Business Improvement District.
The Plymouth Waterfront Partnership has been lobbying its members to back Waterfront BID2 and allow the organisation to continue its work for a further five years.
The PWP team is hoping the hard work has paid off as they...
Nearly a quarter of workers (21%) in Plymouth, aged 45 or older, believe they have been discriminated against in their workplace because of their age, according to a comprehensive study from recruitment site totaljobs, one of the UK’s most established job boards. The report, which interviewed over 2,000 working people over 45, demonstrates a worrying level of employee nervousness around age-...
Pupils and teachers at Riverside Community Primary School in Plymouth welcomed a special guest today, as giant Red Nose DJ Boogie visited the school to help kick off their Red Nose Day fundraising efforts.
Earlier this morning DJ Boogie made an early stop off to take in Plymouth Hoe and Smeaton’s Tower. At the primary school he led a Red Nose Day themed assembly and joined the children...
This year sees the Freemasons celebrate their tercentenary and as part of their annual support of hospices throughout the country the Deputy Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire V. W. Bro. Nicholas Ball can be seen here presenting a certificate denoting the £2418 given on behalf of the Masonic Charitable Foundation to Emma Perry of St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth.
