Ladies, it’s time to take the fight to cancer at Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
Let’s face it. Cancer is a nasty piece of work. It will affect one in three of us. It will stroll into our lives and ruin everything without even flinching.
We will beat it though. We’ll wipe that smile off its stupid face. Cancer’s going down. And every single pound we raise pushes it closer...
Devon Wildlife Trust report that an estimated 11,000 people attended their annual Wildlife Festival in Plymouth on Saturday 27 April.
Sunny weather greeted visitors to Armada Way to enjoy a variety of attractions from owls and mini-beasts, to face painting, seashore craft making, Charles Darwin and a hoola-hooping badger.
The day was also used by DWT to launch its 'Get Devon...
TV presenter and local marine coastal ecology expert Maya Plass has a new book coming out just in time for the start of the summer.
RSPB Handbook of the Seashore (Bloomsbury, 23 May 2013) is a fantastic identification guide to the wildlife you can discover on the beach, in the rock pools and at the shore. Perfect for summer holidays or strolls on the beach.
Exciting plans for the major new yacht race, the Route des Princes, have been unveiled at an international press conference in Paris today.
Ten teams have been confirmed for the race which starts in Valencia on 9 June and will reach Plymouth between 26 June and 29 June. A giant 80 feet maxi yacht will be among the ten enormous multi hulls that will stop over in Plymouth.
Council leader Tudor Evans has been touring a Plymouth company whose precision tubes are at the frontier of science and engineering.
Fine Tubes in Estover have been developing products for space as well as scientific research underground and the leader of the Council has been learning at first hand about the company's future direction.
Departure points for some of the bus services operating from Royal Parade will be changing from Sunday 5 May.
The changes, which will spread services out more evenly across the bus stops, are being made by Plymouth City Council and local bus companies to reduce congestion and improve safety.
Royal Parade is the city’s busiest bus interchange and there are often problems with ‘...
Dr Peter Geraghty, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), praised Plymouth City Council’s planning team as he toured the city centre last week (26 and 27 April) and enjoyed a sneak preview of the Abercrombie Exhibition.
The Royal Town Planning Institute represents 23,000 planners worldwide working in the private, public, education and charity sectors, and is...
Plymouth was buzzing on social media today amid huge local support for the city's bid for City of Culture 2017.
The hashtag #Plymouth2017 trended nationally on Twitter at lunchtime today (Tuesday 30 April) due to the number of users tweeting and re-tweeting their support for the bid which was submitted today.
This evening sees Smeaton's Tower illuminated as a beacon for...
A delegation from Plymouth UK will be heading stateside as part of a mission to strengthen trade and tourism links and help cement the special relationship between the two Plymouths.
Plymouth, Massachusetts will be welcoming representatives from Plymouth, UK as part of a five-day visit from 20 May.
The visit will include a formal reaffirmation of the strong links between the...
The Plymouth Daily is delighted to be backing our city's bold and exciting bid to become the UK's City of Culture in 2017.
Plymouth's initial bid for this honour will be submitted today alongside 10 rival cities across the UK. There will then be an anxious wait until June while a panel of judges considers and finally shortlists 4 cities to go forward to a full and final bidding...
