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All Stars to stage Summer Show

Members of The All Stars Theatre Company, which is run for adults with learning difficulties, are staging their annual summer show of singing and dancing on Sunday June 14, to raise awareness of the work the company does for those with learning disabilities.

Every Saturday the Plymouth-based company meets and, under the guidance of founders David and Janet Halifax, adults learn songs...

Complaints investigated by RSPCA rise

The RSPCA’s annual figures for 2014 show that cruelty complaints investigated by the charity in the south west and central England have gone up once again.

More worrying still is that the numbers of complaints involving direct cruelty including beatings, improper killing, mutilation and poisonings formed 12.5% of the total number of complaints.

The charity investigated 28,800...

Saks to open salon in Plymouth

Saks, the UK’s favourite salon group, has welcomed another salon to its ever-increasing network.

Saks Plymouth, based in the Virgin Active Devonshire Club, will be opening the doors of their new salon at Virgin Active, Plymbridge Lane, Derriford at the beginning of May.

Ellie and Tom Wilson are already the successful franchisees of Saks Exeter - this year's Saks Hair Salon of...

First Ocean Studios residents announced

Plymouth’s £4.2 million development for the artistic community, Ocean Studios has announced its first phase of full time residents who will be moving in in June this year. The 31 selected and confirmed artists, craft makers, and creatives from a plethora of disciplines and career stages all echo the philosophy of the studios themselves which strongly encourage debate, dialogue, learning,...

*** competition closed *** WIN tickets to special advance screening of Spooks: The Greater Good

Winners: Helen Bennet, Annemieke Coombs, Tracy Baker, Angela Royton and Alison Emony.

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To celebrate the release of Spooks: The Greater Good, in cinemas May 8 (Special Advance Screenings April 30), we’re giving you the chance to be one of the first to experience the high octane espionage thriller by winning two tickets to a special advance screening at your local...

Police appeal after garage burglary

Police are appealing for witnesses following a burglary at the rear garage of the Foresters Arms public house, situated on Fore Street, Plympton St Maurice in Plymouth.

It is believed that the burglary took place at between 3.20am-4.30am on Saturday 28th March.

The garage is accessed via a small rear lane and was rented to a local carpenter who used it to store tools and power...

Pioneering new housing model launches

A new rent-to-own housing model that will give thousands of tenants their first step onto the housing ladder has been launched with plans to deliver 5,000 affordable homes across England by 2020.

The new model has been created by housing company Rentplus with the financial backing of private and institutional investors and the first agreements to deliver 900 homes have been approved by...

Thousands compete in Plymouth Half Marathon

Runners were greeted with glorious weather at Plymouth’s Half Marathon today, with 3,944 participants taking to the iconic startline on The Hoe.

Lined with thousands of supporters, the race was started by local fundraiser Steve Turner, who also took on his record breaking twentieth consecutive run at Plymouth’s Half Marathon 2015.

Kairn Stone from Newham and Essex Beagles was...

National Stalking Awareness Week

IS IT STALKING? That is the vital question being addressed in a new awareness film being released by the UK’s leading personal safety charity to launch National Stalking Awareness Week (20 -24 April 2015)

With 1 in 6 women and 1 in 12 men being stalked at some point in their lives the film, commissioned by charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust, helps to educate the public about what stalking is...

Funeral costs set to rise

After decades of the number of deaths in the UK falling, 2015 will mark a “tipping point” where the historic trend starts to reverse: as the oldest of the babyboomer generation move through their later years deaths are predicted to rise by 20%.

This trend reversal will have significant implications for current forecasts of funeral costs and highlights a growing need for families to...

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