Royal William Yard’s historic Grade 1* Listed naval victualling buildings are to provide a magical backdrop to a range of exciting Christmas events and activities this year - including a unique appearance from Christmas’s most popular visitor - Santa!
Christmas Wonderland Market - starring Santa - Sunday, Dec 4, 10am til 6pm
Santa has revealed he will make an extra special...
Join the internationally acclaimed BBC Big Band, conductor Barry Forgie, and the extraordinary vocal talents of vocalists Jeff Hooper, for a fun-filled programme of festive favourites - with a swing twist!
A real Christmas cracker of a programme, featuring big band settings of favourite yule-tide numbers such as Let It Snow, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, It’s The Most...
Reverend Andy Barton has been appointed as Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust's new Palliative Care and Oncology Chaplain from October 2016.
Having worked as an Honorary Chaplain with the Pastoral and Spiritual Care team for the past 18 months, Andy will now specialise in this area of work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, working with cancer patients and others, seeking to bring...
Devon and Cornwall Police is holding a knife amnesty this month to give people the opportunity to safely hand in potentially dangerous weapons. The amnesty will run from Tuesday 15 until Monday 21 November 2016. This initiative has been prompted by the recent legislation that now prohibits the sale or importation of ‘zombie knives’.
Police want to give people the opportunity to hand...
Plymouth is in search of a well-deserving local person to switch on this year’s City Centre Christmas lights after X Factor star Sam Bailey has had to pull out of the event due to contract commitments. Sam stepped in after Coronation Street star and singer, Shayne Ward announced he was unavailable to attend last week.
With just 1 week to go, Event partners, Plymouth City Council and...
A closure order has been granted on a flat in Plymouth - next to another one that was closed earlier this week - following repeated complaints of anti-social behaviour, offensive weapons, drunken behaviour and drug dealing.
Plymouth Magistrates granted a three month closure order on 3E Teats Hill after the court was satisfied that the tenant Steven Edsel-Ford had caused nuisance to...
The 'Ladies Supporting The Rame Peninsula Male Voice Choir' will be holding a Pre Christmas Coffee Morning. There will be choir singing, a raffle and refreshments. There will also be stalls selling clothes, bric a brac and books at bargain prices. All are welcome to come and enjoy the morning. For more information contact inforamechoir@tesco.net .
A Devon pensioner has been fined £4,700 after amassing an illegal lifetime collection of hundreds of wild bird eggs.
William Beaton, 73, from Yelverton, appeared before Plymouth Magistrates’ Court yesterday [10 November] and admitted to stealing the eggs from around the UK, including Devon and Cornwall.
He pleaded guilty to five offences under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside...
Rising demand for commercial accommodation is keeping Plymouth property specialists Bruton Knowles busy - tracking down remaining units on the city outskirts.
Mark Slade from the firm’s Lockyer Street office has now let four out of five units at the Moorlands Trading Estate at Saltash and has offers on the last remaining unit.
The light industrial units vary from 1,410 to 3,...
