Stagecoach South West has announced it will be promoting the recent service improvements to its flagship Gold bus service with two roadshows during half term week (week commencing 26 May 2014).
Responding to passenger demand, Stagecoach has doubled the frequency of the service’s Torquay to Plymouth connection with buses now running to up to every half hour, 6 days a week and an hourly...
Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, has celebrated Nurses’ Day 2014 with constituent and outstanding nurse Sarah Lewis at a reception held in Parliament.
Sarah Lewis, a Pain Management Nurse at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, won both the Nursing Standard Defence Nursing Award 2014 and the overall Nurse of the Year 2014 Award.
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and Alzheimer’s Society are collaborating on a special event at Drake Circus Shopping Centre on Thursday 22 May as part of Dementia Awareness Week (18 to 24 May).
The focus of this year’s Dementia Awareness Week is on ‘opening up’ and encouraging people who are concerned about dementia-related issues to talk about their worries rather than bottling...
Residents in the Stonehouse area being asked what they think about a police request for new powers to tackle the anti-social street drinking.
The Council’s Licensing Committee has given the go-ahead for a public consultation on a Designated Public Places Order (DPPO) covering Marlborough Street, Devonport and surrounding area. The area would extend from Mount Wise waterfront up to...
A scientist who has showcased the delicate beauty of plankton through film and photography has now turned to fashion for his latest project with a little help from Paul Smith.
Dr Richard Kirby, a Research Fellow in the Marine Institute at Plymouth University, has worked with the global fashion company to create swimming shorts sporting the iconic imagery of his Ocean Drifters.
A woman with a severe, life threatening allergy has started a support group to help support others affected by severe allergies, or anaphylaxis.
Katy Hannaford, from Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, has a severe drug allergy herself and is also carer to her daughter 12-year-old daughter, Alicia, who has multiple severe allergies.
Food allergies are thought to affect around 5-8% of...
American musicians will be playing close to the Mayflower Steps at the Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival 2014.
Mississippi blues guitar-man Robin Henkel will headline the event, which takes place from June 13-15 on The Barbican, close to where the Pilgrims left for the New World in 1620.
The Festival’s music programme is due to run between noon and 9pm on...
Ocean Crescent, which changed its name from Zero 4 following the acquisition by Burrington Estates and is currently undergoing a £1 million refurbishment, is officially due to launch today between 5.30pm and 7pm.
There is a range of studio, one- and two-bed apartments, many of which benefit from an underground parking space as well as four stunning luxury duplex penthouses, which boast...
Plymouth University will be a hive of activity on Saturday 17 May when it hosts two fun family-friendly events inspired by an exhibition about bees.
‘Bee Happy’ will be led by the Wild About Plymouth team – a partnership between the City Museum and Art Gallery and Plymouth University, which organises a natural history or science-based event each month throughout the year.
An Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) from Plymouth who was invited to attend the annual commemoration of the life and work of Florence Nightingale at Westminster Abbey last week (Wednesday 7 May 2014) has reflected on her memorable experience.
The annual service is held to celebrate nursing and midwifery staff, both registered and unregistered, working in these services....
