Plymouth City Council is asking local residents to guess who fosters to raise awareness of the need for more foster carers in Plymouth, as part of Foster Care Fortnight™ 2014.
With record numbers of children (408) coming into care, and the need to recruit at least 40 more fostering families in and around the city, the Council is asking if people have the skills to consider becoming a...
Plymouth City Council is supporting the new national Dementia Friends campaign to help people develop an understanding of dementia and turn it into action to help people in their community living with the disease.
There are around 665,065 people in England who have dementia, and an estimated 21 million people in England have a close friend or family member with dementia. It is...
Noel Fielding (The Mighty Boosh, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Luxury Comedy) is embarking on his first live tour in five years: An Evening With Noel Fielding, and will be stopping off at the Pavilions on Wednesday 12 November! Of course this won’t be the first time that Fielding has landed in Plymouth, as anyone who came near the venue back in November 2009 will tell you, as hoards of fans...
A Plymouth-based medical services company that designs, develops and manufactures software and equipment to improve maternity care during labour is developing its own purpose built headquarters to support growth.
K2 Medical Systems has acquired a site on Plymouth International Business Park and will commence construction on the 10,000 sq ft property this month.
The winter storms which battered the South West will be the focus of the Devon Maritime Forum’s Spring meeting on Tuesday 13 May.
The meeting, which will be held at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, will examine the impact of the severe storms and the response to them. It will also explore how to build resilience to the increasing risk of coastal flooding and erosion.
A new exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One and the amalgamation of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse is now on display at the City Museum and Art Gallery.
‘Plymouth's Great War: Three Towns United in Conflict’ is one of the highlights of this year’s Plymouth History Festival and features information, images, documents and other related items from the...
On Friday 9 May, Friday 6 June and Friday 11 July, Saltram House near Plymouth will create an evening of entertainment, delving into past scandal and romance at Saltram.
‘Scandal and Romance’ will see staff and volunteers donning period dress to give visitors a unique insight into the gossip behind the Parker family’s lives, loves and losses. Many of the costumes have been made by the...
Patients receiving treatment from Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHNT) can now nominate a staff member for an award when they have gone above and beyond what would be expected of them and have provided an excellent service.
A new initiative known as The WOW! Awards, begins tomorrow (Tuesday 6 May 2014) and will run in pilot form at PHNT until the end of October this year.
It’s 1972 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and Sizwe Banzi’s passbook gives him just three days to find work. No work and he’ll be deported. That was four days ago.
So when Sizwe stumbles across a dead body with a passbook, he asks himself – does his identity card really define who he is? Could he give up his family and his name in order to survive?
Genesis Future Directors Award winner Matthew Xia directs this momentous, Tony-nominated play which exposes the struggle for freedom and identity in apartheid-era South Africa, unravelling the brutal absurdities of everyday life...
