The LGiU and CCLA are delighted to announce that Councillor Tudor Evans (Leader, Plymouth City Council) has won the 2015 C’llr Achievement Award for Leader of the Year.
The sixth annual Awards Ceremony was held on Monday evening (March 2nd) at the Lord Mayor’s Parlour, in Westminster City Council. The Awards are the only national ceremony to honour the hard work of councillors from...
Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline, has today announced it is to open a new base at Cardiff Airport.
The airline will serve 11 destinations in the UK and Europe this summer and base two of its existing Embraer E195 aircraft at the Airport. One of these 118-seat aircraft will arrive at Cardiff in June and the second in September 2015.
Plymouth City Council is gearing up for Lord Mayor’s Day on Saturday 6 June and its events team want to hear from anyone interested in taking part.
This year’s theme will be ‘the 200th Anniversary of Napoleon on HMS Bellerophon in Plymouth Sound’ and anyone can get involved – from individual people to community groups, clubs and organisations.
Help to Buy, the government’s flagship housing scheme, has helped 88,420 people buy a new home (9,045 in the South West) since it was created, new figures have revealed today.
Since the launch of the Help to Buy equity loan and mortgage guarantee schemes:
• 80% of scheme completions have been made by first-time buyers • the average house price has been £185,000, significantly...
White collar warriors aiming to go a couple of rounds with opposite numbers from the Plymouth business community could end up toe to toe with Bruton Knowles’ Glenn Kelly.
Glenn – an associate at Bruton Knowles’ Lockyer Street office - will be joining two dozen other hopefuls hoping to slog it out at Plymouth Pavilions on Saturday April 25 on behalf of city-based children’s bereavement...
Artists based in the South West are being invited to apply to create a new piece of public art for Plymouth’s Hoe Garden.
Led by Plymouth City Council and supported by Plymouth Culture, this exciting new commission will see the selected artwork installed in the garden next to the café for up to a year, with the possibility of then being relocated to a permanent location elsewhere in...
A group of 12 Plymouth students got to spend the day with staff at one of Plymouth’s biggest motor dealerships, Vospers. The family run business spent time helping the students learn all about the motor industry as part of city’s Skills Aid Plymouth scheme.
Skills Aid Plymouth (SAP) was launched earlier this year to give some of Plymouth’s young people extra support. The students got...
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust is hosting an Open Day on Saturday 7th March, for experienced and newly qualified nurses and operating department practitioners that are looking at a career in theatres or Critical Care.
The day will include talks from speakers from all areas, introducing the day and the opportunities available. There will also be areas set up with information about the...
Businesses are being asked how better relationships can be forged between companies and the councils and organisations that regulate them.
Plymouth City Council is asking businesses to fill in a survey to find out what sort of support they would like to see to help them comply with regulations that affect their business.
Plymouth City Council is working with other regulatory...
Ahead of this year’s World Book Day (March 5), Jurys Inn Hotel Group is set to bring a complimentary children’s library to selected UK hotels, to encourage parents to keep the tradition of bedtime story-telling alive.
Recent studies have indicated that parents in the UK are spending increasingly less time reading to their children at bedtime, or skipping it all together. Additionally,...
