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Jane Castree Dance Collaborations: Perspectives

Jane Castree Dance Collaborations will be presenting their latest show Perspectives at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth on Saturday 7th March 2015.

The show, created by Plymouth based dancer and choreographer Jane Castree, will also feature guest artist Wayne Parsons who has previously performed with Mark Bruce Company, Sydney Dance Company, Motionhouse and Richard Alston Dance Company.

Jane Castree Dance Collaborations works with collaborators across art forms to create innovative and dynamic dance performances. Perspectives features three works, How We Made This… a new...

Jane Castree Dance Collaborations brings guest artist to latest show Perspectives

Jane Castree Dance Collaborations will be presenting their latest show Perspectives at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth on Saturday 7th March 2015.

The show, created by Plymouth based dancer and choreographer Jane Castree, will also feature guest artist Wayne Parsons who has previously performed with Mark Bruce Company, Sydney Dance Company, Motionhouse and Richard Alston Dance Company...

Pledge to make sure every child in Plymouth can swim officially launched

Plymouth’s top swimming stars are showing their support for a new swimming pledge that will ensure every child in the city has the opportunity to learn to swim.

The Second Chance to Swim scheme is Plymouth City Council’s pledge to ensure that any child who didn’t learn to swim during their primary school intensive swimming programme gets another opportunity to learn this essential...

Plymouth celebrates Dry January success

Plymouth has been celebrating the success of its first ever Dry January campaign which has been run in partnership for the first time by Alcohol Concern and Plymouth City Council.

In Plymouth, 1822 people signed up to Dry January as a result of the local and national campaign. The results were presented at the latest meeting of the Alcohol Programme Board, which is made up of...

Engine and tools taken in burglary

Police are appealing for information after an outboard engine and several power tools were taken from a garden shed in the Honicknowle area of Plymouth.

The shed, located in the back garden of a property in Harewood Crescent, was broken into sometime between 2pm on Sunday 22 February and 8pm on Monday 23 February.

Several items, worth over £750 in total, were taken, including a...

Bursaries set to help students enhance their potential

A group of students from Plymouth University have been given the opportunity to enhance their potential by learning new skills and experiencing educational settings abroad, thanks to a charitable trust which supports the educational aspirations of young people.

The Nancy Langhorne Astor Scholarships Trust, set up by the children of the late Lady Nancy Astor, who was the first female MP...

Buckland’s Rembrandt wins at Visitor Experience Awards

Buckland Abbey, Garden and Estate’s exhibition ‘Rembrandt revealed’ wins top prize for Research and Understanding at this year’s National Trust’s Visitor Experience Awards.

The exhibition, open daily at the National Trust property near Yelverton, gives visitors the opportunity to discover how the £30 million self-portrait of the Dutch master was verified and tells the story of how a...

Two new county wildlife sites for city

Plymouth has two new County Wildlife Sites, bringing its tally up to 26.

Ashery Wood and Warren Plantation and a verge at St Budeaux are the latest locations to have been given the status, which is designated by a panel of experts.

The new County Wildlife Site of Ashery Wood and Warren Plantation lies between the communities of Oreston, Plymstock and Hooe and is owned and...

SW communities celebrate Lotto windfall

Good causes across the South West region are today sharing almost three quarters of a million pounds in the latest Awards for All grants from the Big Lottery Fund.

A total of 87 groups are sharing a windfall that will bring some new ideas to life and help change people’s lives around the region.

In Trowbridge the SPLITZ Support Service will use an award of £10,000 to run...

Living wage for all support staff at Plymouth schools

Plymouth City Council is asking academies and non-maintained schools to follow its example by ensuring all employees are paid a living wage.

The Council has committed that all staff in Council maintained schools will be paid a minimum hourly rate that ensures they have enough to meet the basic cost of living.

The commitment to pay a living wage set nationally particularly helps...

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