Two new high profile celebrity chefs Mitch Tonks and Anton Piotrowski, winner of Masterchef Professional 2012, will be holding master cookery demonstrations during the 10th anniversary celebrations at Plymouth’s Flavour Fest. The event is the South West’s largest food and drink festival and returns to the City Centre’s Piazza from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th August 2013.
Plymouth is to benefit from £660,000 of government funding to help refurbish and bring back into use empty properties and commercial premises.
Plymouth City Council supported the national housing charity Chapter 1 in the bid for the money which will be used to create a scheme of 30 affordable homes.
Cabinet member for Finance whose portfolio includes strategic housing,...
To mark the introduction of a new menu at Derriford Hospital, patients, visitors, staff and the public were offered free samples in the main entrance earlier this month.
After a recent review by the Trusts Patient Feeding Group, the hospital developed the new menu from scratch with a view to a offering a selection of food that better meets the needs of patients.
One of the UK’s biggest digital inclusion projects will officially kick off in Plymouth in September and the Council wants to hear what people think.
Churches, children’s centres, social clubs, community groups, job clubs, schools, sports associations, businesses and members of the public are being asked to get involved in the Plymouth IT Together project to get thousands more Plymouth...
Plymouth’s flagship garden on the Hoe has a distinctly continental feel this year as the city celebrates its French connections.
Plymouth in Bloom is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the city’s twinning with Brest in France and 40 years of Brittany Ferries sailing from here to Roscoff.
Flying high above the garden's red, white and blue floral display are the flags of Brest...
Devon & Cornwall Police say that they received a call from the fire service shortly before 3am on Monday 24 June, with a report that a man in Torpoint had doused himself in petrol.
On arrival at the scene, they found a man holding a petrol can and the property from the outside smelt strongly of petrol.
Police and fire then attempted to engage with the man, who began...
Only hours after the disappointing news that Plymouth had not been shortlisted to be the City of Culture in 2017, a high level Plymouth delegation was meeting the Prime Minister to discuss other important issues affecting the city.
Plymouth MPs Oliver Colvile and Gary Streeter MP, Council leader Tudor Evans and Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive David Parlby met David Cameron in 10...
Minister for Employment, Mark Hoban, and local MP Oliver Colvile were guests of honour for a behind-the-scenes tour of Plymouth’s brand new University Technical College which is set to open its doors for the first time in September.
The special guests were shown the progress of the new college on the former Parkside School site in Devonport, Plymouth. Alongside the tour, they were...
