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wild swimmer and sea‑lover Grace Stickland has launched a Change.org petition asking Plymouth City Council to designate Mountbatten Beach as a bathing area, and it’s already drawing a healthy response: with more than 490 verified signatures and counting. Despite its popularity, the beach remains unofficial and thus

There will be a big wheel on Plymouth Hoe in peak season for the next four years, after an application won approval from Plymouth Council. The observation wheel will run from March until September, despite concerns from heritage experts and the Hoe Neighbourhood Forum that it will impact on the

We guess they must’ve flooded the engine, and got water in the carburettor. But why was there a £475,000 Rolls Royce Phantom in the Lido today (Friday)? There were cameras, ladies with clipboards, and lads in high-vis vests all in attendance. And the pool was mostly closed all

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

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

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