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WW1 nurse given CWGC headstone more than 100 years after death

A special ceremony will take place on Wednesday, September 6 at Ford Park Cemetery for a World War One nurse who has been given a Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s headstone more than 100 years after her death.

Nurse Olive Bennett of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) died on October 30, 1916, but her death was never recorded as a casualty of war and she was therefore not given a...

Public art commission for Hoe Garden

Artists based in the South West are being invited to apply to create a new piece of public art for Plymouth’s Hoe Garden.

Led by Plymouth City Council and supported by Plymouth Culture, this exciting new commission will see the selected artwork installed in the garden next to the café for up to a year, with the possibility of then being relocated to a permanent location elsewhere in...