Saks, the UK’s favourite salon group, has welcomed another salon to its ever-increasing network.
Saks Plymouth, based in the Virgin Active Devonshire Club, will be opening the doors of their new salon at Virgin Active, Plymbridge Lane, Derriford at the beginning of May.
Ellie and Tom Wilson are already the successful franchisees of Saks Exeter - this year's Saks Hair Salon of...
Scientists have discovered that stunted growth can be a genetic response to ocean acidification, enabling some sea creatures to survive high carbon dioxide levels, both in the future and during past mass extinctions.
Using natural CO2 seeps as test sites, the international team of marine scientists and palaeontologists have studied the way in which sea snails cope in more acidic...
Plymouth’s £4.2 million development for the artistic community, Ocean Studios has announced its first phase of full time residents who will be moving in in June this year. The 31 selected and confirmed artists, craft makers, and creatives from a plethora of disciplines and career stages all echo the philosophy of the studios themselves which strongly encourage debate, dialogue, learning,...
Winners: Helen Bennet, Annemieke Coombs, Tracy Baker, Angela Royton and Alison Emony.
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To celebrate the release of Spooks: The Greater Good, in cinemas May 8 (Special Advance Screenings April 30), we’re giving you the chance to be one of the first to experience the high octane espionage thriller by winning two tickets to a special advance screening at your local...
Police are appealing for witnesses following a burglary at the rear garage of the Foresters Arms public house, situated on Fore Street, Plympton St Maurice in Plymouth.
It is believed that the burglary took place at between 3.20am-4.30am on Saturday 28th March.
The garage is accessed via a small rear lane and was rented to a local carpenter who used it to store tools and power...
A new rent-to-own housing model that will give thousands of tenants their first step onto the housing ladder has been launched with plans to deliver 5,000 affordable homes across England by 2020.
The new model has been created by housing company Rentplus with the financial backing of private and institutional investors and the first agreements to deliver 900 homes have been approved by...
IS IT STALKING? That is the vital question being addressed in a new awareness film being released by the UK’s leading personal safety charity to launch National Stalking Awareness Week (20 -24 April 2015)
With 1 in 6 women and 1 in 12 men being stalked at some point in their lives the film, commissioned by charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust, helps to educate the public about what stalking is...
After decades of the number of deaths in the UK falling, 2015 will mark a “tipping point” where the historic trend starts to reverse: as the oldest of the babyboomer generation move through their later years deaths are predicted to rise by 20%.
This trend reversal will have significant implications for current forecasts of funeral costs and highlights a growing need for families to...
Volunteers Robin Younge and Elizabeth Taylor run a table top sale every Tuesday between 8.30am–12.30pm, in the Main Outpatients Department at Derriford Hospital, which raises funds for The Plymouth and District Leukaemia Fund.
Since setting up the table in 2006, a total of £26,000.00 has been raised for the charity, with members of the public donating items to sell, including knitted...
An event showcasing the great ways a healthy lifestyle can be achieved will take place at the Cumberland Centre in Plymouth on 22nd April, and will feature input from health profession students from across Plymouth University.
In conjunction with Plymouth Community Healthcare, which runs primary care services in the city, the event will focus on fun and achievable healthy lifestyle...
