A wealth of opportunities to get active is available at the touch of a button, with a new website launched by Devon County Council Public Health.
Get Active Devon provides a range of activities, from exercise classes to sports clubs; from learning a new skill to developing an existing one, all at the touch of a button. The website offers the chance to search for an activity based on...
Thousands of items of counterfeit “Frozen” merchandise, including dolls and costumes, have been seized in Barnstaple and Ilfracombe by Devon and Somerset Trading Standards service.
Investigations are continuing, but the authorities have issued a warning , alerting people to the potential dangers.
“We are concerned that children could be playing with these potentially dangerous...
A special guest was the first to pull a pint at the newly refurbished Tamar on Moorshead Road recently.
Britain’s Got Talent finalist, Michael Collings, was invited to open the new-look Tamar on Monday 2nd February, following its £463,000 transformation into a Flaming Grill pub restaurant with a focus on providing great value steaks and grills.
One of the country’s leading regeneration companies is to acquire the Civic Centre.
Urban Splash – which has a track record of transforming concrete and listed buildings – will be sold the freehold of the Civic Centre.
The company has helped transform the city’s Royal William Yard, taking it from a disused Naval supplies base to a thriving residential community and much-loved...
A new finance and support package will be made available to the South West’s social ventures in April 2015.
The Seedbed incubator will offer 50 social entrepreneurs cutting-edge support with the aim to make them stronger and more sustainable and will provide access to social finance.
The Seedbed Accelerator will help social entrepreneurs create sustainable jobs, contribute to...
A crowdfunding appeal has been launched to raise money to find and save a spider from global extinction.
A Buglife petition urging a Government planning inspector to reject plans for a housing development in Radford Quarry, Plymouth on the basis it would wipe out the Horrid ground-weaver spider has attracted more than 9,500 signatures.
With Valentine’s Day approaching fast, men all around the country are starting to rummage around the back of the sofa or dust off their credit cards, and preparing to purchase a beautiful bouquet of flowers for the woman (or man!) of their dreams.
But where you live in the country can really make a difference, in terms of what size of bouquet you get, and how much your loved one...
Alison Seabeck, Labour MP for Plymouth Moor View, wrote to the Transport Minister, Robert Goodwill MP, last week to express her ongoing concerns about the safety and regulation of mobility scooters. This came after picking up on a number of concerns raised locally and around the country following a series of interviews she gave to the national media.
A group of second year dental students from Plymouth University, supported by the Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise, are working with residents from the Salvation Army’s Devonport Lifehouse homeless centre in Plymouth, to help them become more aware of how to maintain good oral health and access dental treatment.
The students have had several sessions with the residents and those in...
Work to refurbish Plymouth’s disused Laira Rail Bridge has now reached the halfway point.
The £3.5 million scheme, funded through the Department for Transport’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund, will see the former rail bridge restored and converted into a new walking and cycling route over the River Plym.
Built in 1887, Laira Rail Bridge stopped carrying passenger trains in...
