A Plymouth University competition is looking for budding student entrepreneurs to submit their innovative business ideas – with a chance to see them become reality.
The annual Formation Zone Business Challenge, which was officially launched today to coincide with National Enterprise Week, provides the opportunity for students to compete for funding to develop their own business....
Westcountry folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman is playing a hometown show with his band at Plymouth Pavilions on Saturday 19 December. Seth has successfully steered English folk into the mainstream with high-energy performances and a series of best-selling albums including his current album Word of Mouth which entered the charts at No.20 on release last year to rave...
Angela Rippon OBE, Father Sam Philpott MBE and former city councillors Jean Nelder and David Stark have been nominated to receive the Honorary Freedom of the City for their services to Plymouth.
The title of Honorary Freeman or Freewoman is the highest honour the city can bestow and is awarded to ‘persons of distinction’ who have shown exceptional service or achievement.
With commercial activity picking up across Plymouth sector specialists Bruton Knowles have let another office building on the Heathlands Industrial estate just off the A38.
The 1,388 sq feet property has been let to Maritime Books Ltd on a ten year lease.
Mark Slade from Bruton Knowles’ Lockyer Street office said: “Maritime Books is a specialist publisher of books and magazines...
Let it be... the place music fans take pictures at the spot where the Beatles sat on Plymouth Hoe.
Plymouth officially unveiled its cheeky memorial to the Fab Four with Council leader Tudor Evans and music writer David Quantick the first to sit in the copper casts of four fab backsides.
The image they are recreating was taken by music photographer David Redfern and shows the...
What happens when you combine the spark of global thought leaders with the kindling talent of the South West? Let’s find out!
Plymouth Science Park, Health Education South West and the Beacon Medical Group have joined forces to bring the South West’s first TEDMEDLive2015 event.
Based on the internationally renowned TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) a global set of...
Almost half of tenants who sublet their property do so without their landlord’s consent, according to new findings from the National Landlords Association (NLA).
The findings come as the government recently announced proposals to introduce minimum room sizes in order to crack down on problems with private rented accommodation such as unauthorised subletting, which often results in...
A virtual team, based primarily in Plymouth, has been awarded for their work at the Civil Service awards ceremony held at Buckingham Palace on 12 November.
Land Registry won the Digital Award for its work on the MapSearch project, reducing its huge volume of paper transactions by offering customers digital alternatives – making the transactions faster and cheaper for the Government and...
Special guests will join Destination Plymouth at a conference held at Boringdon Hall next week to discuss how Plymouth can maximise overseas visitor opportunities.
Businesses and students in the tourism and hospitality sector can attend this conference, sponsored by City College Plymouth, taking place on Thursday 26 November from 12.30pm to 4pm.
Adele Paisey-Bruce, 17, is encouraging people in Plymouth to donate pairs of shoes to help children in Gambia go to school.
The City College student was inspired to start this project after visiting a small village in Gambia in February this year as part of a Duke of Edinburgh Award residential trip.
Adele said: “When I was in Bissary Village in Gambia, I taught in the school...
