Tate St Ives announces activities for people with visual impairments following a two-year hiatus during the Covid pandemic Tate St Ives has relaunched its programme of free activities for visitors with a visual impairment, following a two-year hiatus during the Covid pandemic. These events offer people who are blind orContinue Reading
8 March 2022, London – Judge Elizabeth Cooke has been appointed as the new President of the Property Litigation Association (PLA), as Liz Peace CBE steps down from the role after a five-year term. Judge Cooke has been a Judge in the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal since 2019. She wasContinue Reading
West Country PR agency Empica is the latest firm to join the Children’s Hospice South West Business Club 2022. Children’s Hospice South West provides hospice care for children with life-limiting conditions and their whole family. Respite and short breaks, emergency care, palliative care and end of life care is provided at threeContinue Reading
The Lions Club of Plymouth carried out a collection organised by Lion Jim Shipton at various well known super markets throughout Plymouth over the two weeks prior to Christmas 2021 with the main aim to collect sufficient funds to help pay for a Panda Warmer (Hot Cot), for the HighContinue Reading
Exmouth RNLI volunteers were tasked to a report of an exhausted paddle boarder drifting off Orcombe Point, Exmouth this afternoon. At 2.11pm today Friday 4th March 2022, the volunteer crew of Exmouth RNLI inshore lifeboat D-805 George Bearman II were tasked by H.M. Coastguard to conduct a search in theContinue Reading
· Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid visits the South West region as part of his week-long national ‘Road to Recovery’ tour · Javid opens government-funded £56.7 million ground-breaking facility at Porton Down tackling COVID-19 and future health threats · Visits follow government and NHS publishing COVID Backlog Recovery Plan to reduce waiting times, give patients more control overContinue Reading
A new law will be discussed in Parliament with the aim to ban the keeping of pump-action shotguns in homes, after the tragic shooting in Keyham in Plymouth in August 2021. Luke Pollard, the MP representing Keyham, will be introducing a law called the Firearms and Hate Crime Bill, to Parliament on WednesdayContinue Reading
Commenting on the Prime Minister’s Living With COVID strategy, Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP Luke Pollard said: “The Prime Minister promised a plan for living with COVID, but he has left us in chaos and disarray. “It is shocking that Boris Johnson is scrapping free testing for most people, endingContinue Reading
In a county full of fabulous hospitality businesses to be recognised for one award is a real honour but to be recognised in two different categories is a sign that a business has put in a great deal of hard work following a vision over several years. Dorset Forest GardenContinue Reading
Government reveals first old submarine to be recycled from Devonport’s submarine graveyard after pressure by local MP The government has revealed which of the nuclear submarines tied up in Devonport will be the first to be recycled, after a campaign by local MP Luke Pollard. Britain still has every nuclearContinue Reading
