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’.
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...
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...
Second home owners in the South West believe they have an overwhelmingly positive impact on the region, generating opportunities for employment and boosting the economy.
They do not believe they are taking homes away from local people – instead filling properties that would otherwise lay vacant – but are creating jobs that enable people to live in the county.
As Star Wars returns to the big screen, staff at Dogs Trust Ilfracombe are searching the galaxies to help some astronomically amazing dogs find loving homes of their own.
Leading the line-up of ‘Star Paws’ characters hoping to find a home that is out of this world are Lurcher ‘Kobi Wan Kenobi’ who is ready to use his Jedi forces of good to help himself and pal Phoebe find their...
Police in Plymouth are appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision involving a quad bike.
Just before 10pm on Thursday 17th December police were called to a single vehicle road traffic collision on the A38, Westbound carriageway on the on-slip from Marsh Mills towards the Parkway.
It appears that the rider of a quad bike in lane two lost control, collided with...
