Plymouth

Shoppers are flocking to a new £200,000 store opened in Plymouth recently by one of the UK’s fastest growing retailers.

Flooring Superstore say footfall at the store on the city’s Marsh Mills Retail Park has been particularly high since it opened its doors in the summer, with sales over 20% above the original target.

The retailer has put this down to people focusing on home...

The region’s largest indoor arena Plymouth Pavilions and Ocean Pay, the Plymouth based company leading the way with their customer centric business solutions have opened a brand new bar within the venue. Completed over the summer by South West construction firm Brady Construction Services, the sleek new bar is one of the highlights of the venue’s 30th anniversary celebrations.

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Next Friday (22nd October) Drake Circus will welcome its newest addition to The Barcode, with the much-anticipated return of Las Iguanas to Plymouth city centre.

Creating 30 new jobs, the restaurant will open with its brand-new autumn / winter menu, offering some of its favourite dishes including the Bahian Coconut Chicken, the Cuban Sandwich, garlicky Gambas prawns, Albondigas lamb...

Performing at Theatre Royal Plymouth Funky Llama Festival, Human combines the visual spectacle of aerial circus and dance, film and a binaural soundtrack. Human is an antidote to anxiety, gently bridging the transition from being at home in a pandemic to live performance in a tender, quirky collage of lives past and now. The show has been created to be as accessible as possible.

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The Box is delighted to have acquired a new painting for its permanent art collection from Devon-based, Brownston Gallery.

‘Dartmoor China Clay’ was painted in 1992 by Jean Jones (1927-2012), a London-born artist who had a deep connection with Devon throughout her life.

The artwork shows a stunning rural landscape painted with Jones’ signature broad brushstrokes and simple...

German Doner Kebab has been shortlisted as one of the finalists for Deliveroo’s ‘Most-Loved Chain’ in the upcoming Restaurant Awards.

The gourmet kebab chain has been recognised as one of the top contenders for the third annual Restaurant Awards celebrating the best restaurants and grocers available on Deliveroo.

Voting has re-opened until the 18th of October where the public...

SPECSAVERS stores in Cornwall are sponsoring a Plymouth Argyle Legends fundraising football match for a Truro family whose father died at the age of 49 last year.

The stores in Falmouth, Helston, Redruth, Camborne, Truro, St Austell and Newquay are each offering £100 – £700 in total – towards the sum raised by the match, which will boast some of Argyle’s finest former footballers....

Leading arts organisations based in Plymouth have secured a £100,000 grant from Arts Council England to support the city’s hosting of British Art Show 9 (BAS9) . The funding award comes just as the twelve month countdown to the prestigious exhibition begins.

The British Art Show is a landmark touring exhibition that celebrates the vitality of recent art made in Britain. Organised...

A charity based in Plymouth will receive a £10,000 windfall as part of Ecclesiastical Insurance Group’s annual Movement for Good awards.

First Light South West Ltd is one of 30 charities chosen by a panel of judges that will benefit from the money.

The fund will allow the charity, which supports adults and children recovering from domestic abuse and sexual violence, to kick-...

Devon’s health and social care system is under extreme pressure due to high demand for services, sustained demand for Covid beds, pressure on staffing and the need for social care exceeding the available capacity.

Pressures are being seen across the system, in mental health care, primary care (GPs) and adult social care as well as our acute hospital trusts.

Dr Paul Johnson,...