The South West Falcon from Stagecoach will be running throughout the Christmas holiday period, excluding Christmas Day, making it the ideal choice for a trip to the sales, a visit to the panto or a night out at New Year.
With up to 19 journeys a day, the Falcon connects Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol Airport and Bristol city centre. All coaches feature free Wi-Fi as well as air conditioning, leather seats and charging sockets.
On Boxing Day, the Falcon will be running a special timetable with the first service departing Plymouth at 8am and the last returning from...
The incredibly talented country singer Sasha McVeigh is bringing her 'I Stand Alone' UK tour to the Phoenix Arts Centre on April 21st.
She's taken the US country music scene by storm. Sasha has performed with some of the biggest names in country music in America including Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton and Keith Urban.
She recently played to a packed London 02 Arena at C2C. She's been booked to play mainstage at six American music festivals this summer.
Sasha is signed to WME, the biggest booking agency in the world and was the first British country singer to join the...
As hordes of screaming ‘Directioners’ prepare for the UK release of One Direction: This Is Us 3D, Vue Entertainment has ordered 20,000 pairs of earplugs for the army of parents and chaperones caught up in the midst of this modern day Beatle-mania.
Available across all 82 Vue cinemas nationwide, the complimentary earplugs will ensure that accompanying chaperones can enjoy the film without being worried by the high-levels of expected screaming and shouting in the auditoriums during the screenings.
Humans are capable of screaming as loud as 120 decibels, which is the same as...
A former Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay prison has begun a campaign urging US President Barack Obama to shut the highly controversial detention centre down.
Morris Davies served 25 years in the US Air Force, and was the Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years. Having had first-hand experience of the prison, he feels it is now time to shut the prison down.
"I personally charged Osama Bin Laden’s driver Salim Hamdan, Australian anathema David Hicks, and Canadian teen Omar Khadr. All three were convicted… and then they were...
Thousands of people attended a pro-gun rally in Annapolis on Wednesday, as the Governor for the city testified in support of an assault weapons ban.
At a hearing before a Senate committee, Martin O'Malley urged state legislators to approve what he called a comprehensive approach to curbing gun violence. He called for a ban on the sale of "military-style" assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and said the state should require licensing and training for handgun buyers.
Advocates on either side of the gun-control debate attend the hearing, with hundreds more waiting in...
UK and US authorities have fined Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) £390m for its part in the Libor rate-fixing scandal.
The UK's Financial Services Authority issued a fine of £87.5m, while about £300m will be paid to US regulators and the US Department of Justice. The fines are £100m more than those issued to banking rival Barclays last year for similar offences.
RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton said it was a "sad day" for the bank.
Commenting on the announcement, Richard Ayre, chairman of the Institute of Directors in the South West, said:
The Mall of America in Minnesota will bring a one-of-a-kind experience to visitors from around the world known as "Ice Castles" - a castle that will stand more than 40 feet tall at its peak and span two acres.
The Ice Castle is made of icicles organically grown from 4 million gallons of water and then fused together, joining 50 large ice towers together to create a series of shimmering archways, tunnels, walls and caverns, say the organisers.
The team leader behind the structure is an artist named Brent Christensen from Utah. For the past several years, Christensen has been...
Just over one week after one of the largest and most devastating Atlantic hurricanes on record hit north-east America, a snow storm has one again caused significant damage and left thousands without power or heat.
The so-called 'nor'easter' is a macro-scale storm along the East Coast of the United States and Atlantic Canada; it gets its name from the direction the wind is coming from. Nor'easters can cause hurricane-like conditions with coastal flooding and blizzards.
(NewsPoint) - Hitting New York City on Wednesday night repair work following Sandy was put on hold as...
(NewsPoint) – Beginning on Friday, dozens of Walmart employees at a Los Angeles store walked out as part of an ongoing labour dispute.
The action was the first time that Walmart retail workers have ever gone on strike, and has since spread to a total of twelve cities including; Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, Washington DC, Sacramento, Chicago, Orlando, Kentucky, Missouri and Minnesota.
The workers are protesting company attempts to "silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job," according to a United Food and...
