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The Edinburgh connection: the hit shows heading to Theatre Royal Plymouth from the Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh connection: the hit shows heading to Theatre Royal Plymouth from the Edinburgh Fringe

Theatre Royal Plymouth has outlined an exciting line-up for the Drum stage this Autumn - revealing the venue’s “coup” in bringing shows straight from the Edinburgh fringe to the ocean city. Associate artistic director Tom Jackson-Greaves has also teased that an announcement is imminent about a big-name musical coming

UK first for Turnchapel pioneer of autonomous unmanned sea vessels, ACUA-Ocean

UK first for Turnchapel pioneer of autonomous unmanned sea vessels, ACUA-Ocean

There’s been a major breakthrough for a pioneering Plymouth business that is leading the field in autonomous ocean-going vessels. Acua-Ocean’s hydrogen-powered “Pioneer” craft has become the first remotely operated and unmanned vessel to be certified by the influential Lloyds Register under the “code 3” workboat certification - marking

Summer scene in the dock

Summer scene in the dock

The Captain came inshore on Sunday to experience Summer in the Scene Dock at the Theatre Royal - billed as ‘an outdoor summer festival’. The Scene Dock is the outside space at the rear of the theatre where trucks usually unload sets, costumes, props and other scenery - but with

What’s the future for the “dead” nuclear subs at Devonport?

What’s the future for the “dead” nuclear subs at Devonport?

When the UK started building nuclear submarines, the problem of disposing of them after their useful life was, initially, not fully thought through or costed. The initial idea was to take the old hulls out to the mid-Atlantic and to sink them over the mid-Atlantic ridge - the place where

Full moon and a big wheel - a night time spectacle on The Hoe ahead of British Firework Championships

Full moon and a big wheel - a night time spectacle on The Hoe ahead of British Firework Championships

The Big Wheel on the Hoe is taking shape ahead of next week's British Firework Championships - and with tonight's full moon the Ocean City's centrepiece was putting on a show. But the planning application submitted in February this year for a semi-permanent Wheel

Albion Launches ‘Vision and Mission’ Ahead of Historic 150th Anniversary

Albion Launches ‘Vision and Mission’ Ahead of Historic 150th Anniversary

Twenty years ago Plymouth Albion stood at the edge of top-flight rugby - securing third-place league finishes and reaching their first Twickenham cup final in 2004–05. Brickfields regularly welcomed thousands through the gates, and the club was widely admired in the rugby world. By 2015 they were being relegated

Blue plaque honours achievements of Plymouth man who helped NASA

Blue plaque honours achievements of Plymouth man who helped NASA

A new blue plaque has been unveiled in honour of a Plymouth-born man who became a scientist, explorer and soldier and whose ground breaking research into sand dunes has been recognised by NASA. Ralph Alger Bagnold OBE FRS KL (1896-1990) was born on 3 April 1896 and grew up in