A visitor from Canada was recently welcomed at a meeting of Pride of the West with Saint Andrews Lodge which meets in St. Budeaux, Plymouth.
Roger Baker, a member of Aurora Lodge number 148 of the Grand Lodge of Ontario Independent Order of Odd Fellows paid a visit to the Plymouth Lodge and was warmly welcomed.
Roger was a Plymouthian but left the city in 1968 and lives in...
A charity that supports Plymouth people experiencing food poverty is celebrating this week after receiving a much-needed grant.
For the past two years FareShare South West’s Plymouth warehouse has received free surplus food from organisations such as Tesco and made it available to local people to ensure that families don’t go without.
Marine Academy Plymouth (MAP) in St Budeaux, part of the Ted Wragg Trust, has proudly achieved a 'Good' rating from Ofsted following an inspection in April. This remarkable improvement reflects years of dedicated effort, transforming the school from an 'Inadequate' rating in November 2016 to 'Good' in all areas, including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development...
Drake Circus has unveiled two new summer installations for 2024, transforming the centre’s atrium and Old Town Street with a kaleidoscope of colour.
Following the success of last year’s underwater-themed installation, this year’s internal display has been developed in partnership with the centre’s local charity partner, Plymouth Hospitals Charity, and will see billowing cloud lights...
Marine Academy Primary in Plymouth, part of the Ted Wragg Trust , has launched its new Community Bike Hub.
Ryan Evans, Sustrans Bike It Plus officer at Plymouth City Council was in attendance for the launch on the 7th of June along with representatives from the cycling charity Sustrans.
Local families will now be able to borrow adult and children’s bikes and accessories from...
A charity supporting children, young people and families with vision impairment in Devon and Cornwall has received a donation from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation after being nominated by colleagues from the Plymouth branch.
Moorvision received the £850 donation from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation to help fund a project to take 25 children and young...
Following a remarkable 52 years membership of the Oddfellows Friendly Society, Peter English from Redruth has been awarded the internationally recognised Unity Meritorious Service Jewel, one of very few such awards made in recent years with only eight people worldwide currently alive holding the prestigious decoration.
Following a lengthy formal nomination process, the award was...
A former service reservoir in Loddiswell near Kingsbridge in south Devon is to be put up for auction with a guide price of £7,000 - £12,000. The 146 sq m former reservoir will appear, along with dozens of other properties and plots of land, in the next online Pugh auction on 19 June.
Edward Feather from Pugh said: “This is an unusual lot and it’s USP really is that it’s in such a...
Between 2nd May and 6th June 2024, Craft Union has invested a phenomenal £700,000 into six key community pubs in Devon. The most recent investment is a significant £211,000 into the Sir Joshua Reynolds in Plymouth, which reopens on Thursday 6thJune.
The Sir Joshua Reynolds was named after the pre-eminent portrait painter of the same name, who was a significant figure during the 18th...
In a continued effort to keep the streets of Plymouth safe, local police officers conducted a plain-clothed test purchase operation across the city centre on Saturday 18 May.
The aim of this test purchase operation was to establish if knives are likely to be sold to people under the age of 18, and whether the correct training and protocols were in place. The operation also aimed to...
