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Kidney disease and transplant projects get funding boost

Peninsula Renal Network Leads Dr Wai Tse and Rachel Gair have secured nearly £300,000 of national funding from NHS Kidney Care to support patients with renal disease on behalf of the Peninsula Renal Network to improve the experience and outcomes for kidney patients at Derriford Hospital and throughout the Peninsula.

Plymouth Dialysis Unit will be one of the first in the UK to use the...

A guide for future regeneration of North Prospect

As North Prospect undergoes a major regeneration, new guidelines are being proposed so any future developments contribute to the goal of creating a vibrant and sustainable community.

The Area Planning Statement (APS) includes the findings of a public consultation and previous studies and sets out recommendations around planning issues including:

  • Design guidelines
  • ...

Plymouth's Plan for Jobs unveiled

Over 2,000 jobs over the next two years - that's the aim of Plymouth's Plan for Jobs.

A total of 19 projects will aim to create several thousand jobs as part of an innovative plan that brings together actions and commitments from city organisations to pump energy, motivation and substantial funding into the local economy to stimulate growth and jobs.

A task force involving key...

Extra investment needed for the South West's main line

A national rail investment programme claiming to be the largest since the Victorian age has no funding allocated for the South West's mainline.

Just days after the flood waters have receded from the tracks following a catastrophic failure of the network, Network Rail unveiled their £37.5 billion investment…for everywhere else.

Of the five billion to be invested in the western...

Serious road collision causes tailbacks on A38 at Plymouth

Update: The A38 eastbound was closed at 4.50pm for approximately 30 minutes.

An elderly gentleman is in hospital with what is described as a serious neck injury.

The collision occured just before the Crownhill turnoff, so traffic is now flowing okay around the Manadon roundabout.

Earlier: Police and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road collision on...

Dirty Dancing - you'll have the time of your life

Dirty Dancing is an unprecedented live experience, exploding with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensationally sexy dancing.

Seen by millions across the globe this worldwide smash-hit tells the classic story of Baby and Johnny, two fiercely independent young spirits from different worlds, who come together in what will be the most challenging and triumphant summer of their lives. Featuring hit songs, including Hungry Eyes, Hey Baby, Do You Love Me? and the heart stopping I’ve Had The Time Of My Life .

Don’t miss your chance to see the...

Western College Players present The Railway Children

Adapted for the stage by Mike Kenny and directed by Gareth Roberts

'Daddy! My Daddy!'

Few who have seen the classic film based on E. Nesbit’s novel will forget those words or the emotion they provoke. This wonderful Edwardian family classic has never ‘run out of steam’ and Western College Players will soon bring it vividly to life on the Drum stage - with all its humour, tenderness and the exhilarations of childhood.

This fresh new adaptation is based on the huge hit that was staged at Waterloo Station in London. So ‘tickets please’ and ‘all aboard’ for the perfect...

Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a Landscape

Venue: 
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Drake Circus
Event Date: 
Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 10:00 to Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 17:00
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This major touring exhibition from York Museums Trust celebrates the achievements of Gordon Baldwin OBE, one of the most important ceramic artists of our time.

The exhibition will include around 100 works shown alongside related drawings, collages and photographs. It will explore Baldwin's influences, from music and landscape, to 20th century art.

There will be some early works but the emphasis will be on work from the 1980s onwards when Baldwin found his artistic voice.

The show will also include a small group of new works made by Baldwin as he approaches his 80th...

BRIT-Award winning singer Beverley Craven: In Concert

Performing all her hits from the 90’s including Promise Me, Holding On, Woman to Woman, Memories & Love Scenes, Beverley Craven is back on the road, playing just a handful of small and intimate venues. “They’re far better suited to the confessional style of my new songs…” she says, “It’s like I’ve invited the audience back to my place!”

Once again with a paired down acoustic line up and stripped back production, she sings candidly about her experience of surviving breast cancer, her recent divorce and current affairs.

Tickets: £18.50/£17.50/£16

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Local band The Needletones play The Watermark

A band now enjoying their fifth year of intensive gigging around the South West, The Needletones have well and truly put their stamp on the music of Jimi Hendrix. As a three piece (or ‘power trio’ as they’d have been labelled in the 60′s) they excel in bringing Hendrix to life on stage, with all of the energy and vigor such music deserves.

The Needletones comprises of Chris Babbage on bass and lead vocals; a man with a Plant-esque shriek who tears through his basses like a young Jack Bruce plugged into the mains. Owen Burgess picks up the lead guitar duties, both doing true justice...

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