Plymouth

Plymouth City Council is asking people what they think of its proposed admission arrangements for entry to schools in September 2017.

Anyone with an interest in school admissions is invited to make a response to the consultation.

Comments are needed on:

• admission numbers for all schools • key dates in the admissions process • admission arrangements for all of the...

Dates for next year’s MTV Crashes Plymouth have been confirmed and music fans can get their hands on tickets from Monday 21 December.

The spectacular live music event, organised by MTV in collaboration with Plymouth City Council, will be returning for its third year on Plymouth Hoe on the evenings of Thursday 28 and Friday 29 July 2016.

MTV Crashes Plymouth has grown year-on-...

Plymouth City Council’s Public Health department and Plymouth Community Healthcare’s Livewell team are working in partnership to encourage local people to sign up for Dry January 2016.

Dry January is a national behaviour change public health campaign developed by the charity Alcohol Concern and supported by Public Health England. It seeks to challenge people to give up drinking alcohol...

Plymouth’s innovative Ocean Studios is to receive a Social Enterprise Investment Fund support package to enable it to complete its construction phase and cement its future as a home for artists.

A delegated decision was signed last week giving the go-ahead to a £300,000 grant to cover unforeseen construction costs.

The Ocean Studios opened its doors in the summer and is already...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) is asking tenants across the country if they can tell the difference between good and bad landlords, as part of their new campaign, Reinventing Renting.

Reinventing Renting looks at the characteristics and qualities of professional landlords and seeks to help tenants identify whether their landlord is a ‘rogue’ or ‘in vogue’.

The...

Plymouth residents are being advised on how to avoid getting into debt before and after Christmas.

Many people struggle financially at Christmas in particular, and Advice Plymouth and Plymouth City Council are offering tips and advice to help people avoid debt and manage their finances.

Figures released this month by the national StepChange Debt Charity show that 804 people in...

There was lots of Christmas spirit at Ridgeway School recently when students wore Christmas jumpers to school to raise money for local charities.

Each student who took part in the Christmas Jumper Day donated £1 towards the Junior Leadership Teams chosen charities. They raised £354.15.

The chosen charities are:

· Year 7: Snowdrop Appeal to support parents of stillborn...

LHC Architecture + Urbanism have raised more than £1,000 for one of their chosen charities of the year by hosting their very own Bake Off contests.

Following weeks of fierce competition between the team of architects and urban designers at the Exeter and Plymouth studios, LHC cooked up a special surprise for staff at the Kidney Research shop in Exeter and handed over an impressive...

Paramedic students have put their skills to an explosive test by attending to casualties in a simulated train crash.

Twenty-nine Students from Plymouth University took part in the crisis exercise at Churston railway station, which was organised by Dartmouth Steam Railway and Riverboat Company in conjunction with Torbay Hospital, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service and Devon and...

A Plymouth elearning company has donated eight boxes of festive food to Plymouth Foodbank in time for Christmas.

Sponge UK, based at Plymouth Science Park, paid a visit to the foodbank at Manor Street, Stonehouse on Thursday, December 17 to drop off the boxes crammed with seasonal items such as mince pies, gravy granules and stuffing mix to help towards creating Christmas dinner packs...