Plymouth

Happy Day’s children’s charity have gifted the children of a school in Plymouth a theatre performance.

The charity, who help local children with a variety of special needs with day trips and holidays will treat Courtland’s school with a performance of The Hobbit.

The play will take place on 21 July 2016 and will be performed by M&M productions travelling theatre company....

Libraries in Plymouth are getting ready to celebrate 100 years of the world’s greatest storyteller, Roald Dahl, with this year’s Summer Reading Challenge – The Big Friendly Read.

Children can visit their local library and sign up from Saturday 16 July. It’s free and every child who signs up will be given a special collector folder to keep track of their Summer Reading Challenge reading...

Plymouth University’s paramedic students have been named the best in the country.

At the simulated crisis event Spires, Plymouth paramedic students won awards for their excellent work.

Spires is the first UK international student paramedic conference and the only paramedic student competition in the UK.

To take the title the team had to perform throughout the day in...

To Plymouth lady Sandy Rice, 72, age is just a number.

A proud nanny with 11 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a lifetime of experience, Sandy has been empowering women through beauty and make-up.

Sandy started to work for Avon, and eventually start her own business after suffering from ankylosing sponditis, a form of spinal arthritis that eventually causes a fusion...

Visit Devon has been nominated for the Best UK Holiday County or Destination in the prestigious 2016 British Travel Awards (BTAs).

The winners will be determined by the consumer, who has until 30 September to cast their vote, with the successful companies announced at the BTA Gala Awards Dinner, being held in London on 23 November 2016.

British Travel Awards’ chief executive...

Police in Plymouth have launched an investigation following a fire at a property in Plymouth in which the owners then received a hate-filled letter.

The incident took place at an address on Blandford Road in Efford overnight on Wednesday 6th into Thursday 7th of July.

A fire was started deliberately in the shed situated close to the house. The flames spread and caused...

Are you a fan of DanTDM and his online world? Do you want to meet his favourite characters, his pet pug Ellie and help him on his adventure?

For the first time ever, DanTDM, one of the world’s most famous YouTubers is going on tour and heading to Plymouth Pavilions this October! Dan will be letting visitors come and take part in an online DanTDM adventure … in the real world!

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MTV UK has announced two more amazing acts for Day One of MTV Crashes Plymouth on Thursday 28 July.

Rising star of the moment Raleigh Ritchie and MTV favourite Anne-Marie will join the line-up in Plymouth’s hottest music event of the summer.

They will join previously announced acts Rudimental and Jess Glynne for what is set to be an epic night, hosted by the one and only Laura...

Fashion in the city is coming to Plymouth with an army of stylists.

The event will take place on the 2 to the 11 of September 2016 spanning across 2 days.

The programme of interactive activities will include a 2 day fashion show in Drake circus shopping centre, including a Fashion in the city beauty bus taking the event on tour to outlying areas.

The beauty bus will...

A new adoption service has started within Devon.

Families for Children are currently looking to find new families for their new adoption service Fostering to Adopt.

The service places young babies during the period of temporary local authority care with foster carers who are also approved adopters, and may adopt the child if approved by court.

There are many advantages...