Monthly Archives: November 2011

A running group that includes paramedics, a firefighter and a nurse has worked hard to raise £1,500 for children’s cancer charity CLIC by running the Plymouth Half Marathon.

Lee Duke, a Plymouth entrepreneur who founded the waste-to-energy business Chasing Paper Ltd, has managed to secure a £100,000 investment which he is planning to use to create 40 apprenticeships.

With a rich maritime history and recognition around the world for its place in the seafaring industry, you may be surprised to hear that over two thirds of people in Plymouth have been to sea in the last year and a lot of people cannot name other important British seaports.

Portsmouth rarely finds itself listed as one of the country’s architectural leaders, but the city has won a fan in designer and television presenter Kevin McCloud. He called Portsmouth’s architecture of towering concrete council offices and postwar pedestrianised shopping areas “beautiful” and “heroic” and even put the city on par with the grandeur of Georgian Edinburgh.