Drake Circus is delighted to announce the expansion of Drakes Fine Jewellers and Monsoon and to welcome Ed’s Easy Diner, Boux Avenue, Schuh Kids, Satori Beauty Salon, Fuel Juice and Regus Express to the shopping Centre, in time for Christmas.
Later this year Drakes Fine Jewellers will open a new flagship store in Drake Circus, taking up the space currently occupied by Pandora (who have...
Kate Adie, Joanna Trollope, Will Self and Sir Andrew Motion are among the star names appearing at the 2014 Plymouth International Book Festival.
Costa Prize winning novelist Nathan Filer is also part of the line-up, alongside Man Booker Prize judge Sarah Churchwell, BAFTA nominated screenwriter M R Hall, and Sarah Hilary, whose novel Someone Else’s Skin was recently named in Richard...
Plymouth’s bridge to nowhere is to be dismantled as part of the demolition of Mayflower West car park.
The footbridge, which is a covered walkway between the Armada Centre and the car park, will be taken down over the weekend of Friday 5 and Sunday 8 September.
The bridge spans across Mayflower Street and was once a pedestrian walkway from Sainsbury’s to the car park. It has...
Over 80 per cent of tanning salons allowed a 16-year-old to buy a sunbed session – despite the age limit being 18-years-old.
Public protection officers visited six salons in Plymouth last week during a test purchase operation and staff in five of them did not challenge 16-year-old volunteer about their age.
The volunteer did not use the sunbed but was given access to the bed,...
Plymouth's vision to create a welcoming entrance to Britain's Ocean City is taking a significant step forward with plans for a new coach hub and a new leisure development in the city centre.
Millions of pounds could be pumped into both the West End and the eastern part of the city centre, as part of a major investment package proposed by British Land,...
It might seem a long way into the future, but Plymouth parents whose children are due to start school next year are being encouraged to get their applications in early.
Plymouth City Council is now taking applications from families whose children are due to start at primary school for the first time or junior school (having completed Year 2 in an infant school) in September 2015....
Researchers in Exeter and Plymouth have been brought together in an exciting new venture to defeat dementia.
In the lead up to World Alzheimer’s Day, the UK’s leading dementia research charity has announced new investment in a Research Network across the UK, bringing scientists together to tackle this devastating condition.
Alzheimer’s Research UK will support 15 Network...
Police are looking for a teenage boy who has gone missing from his Plymouth home.
Joshua Hawker, age 16, who also goes by the name of Joshua Byrne was last seen by his family on August 13th in the city.
He has made intermittent contact through social media but there has been no confirmed sightings of Joshua since he went missing. His family and police are growing increasingly...
Tomorrow’s scientists and engineers can now apply for places at the county’s newest school, the South Devon University Technical College in Engineering, Water and the Environment, which opens its doors to the first intake of students this time next year.
The innovative UTC has been established by the University of Exeter and South Devon College alongside key local and regional...
The area outside the reception building at St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth looks stunning after local gardener Sam Ovens worked his green fingered magic and transformed the bare patches of earth in to a fantastic natural garden.
25 year old Sam, from Pelynt near Looe in Cornwall, recently won the Young Designer of the Year Award at the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society’s Flower Show...
