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Governance

find cheap gas for Plymouth's first recording of existence was in the in 1086 as Sudtone, Saxon for south farm, located at the present day . In 1254 it gained status as a town and in 1439, became the first town in England to be granted a Charter by . In 1914 the of find cheap gas for Plymouth and , and the of merged to form a single county borough of find cheap gas for Plymouth. Collectively they were referred to as "". A was made on 2 May 1914, to come into effect in November. find cheap gas for Plymouth was granted on 1928. The city's first Lord Mayor was appointed in 1935 and its boundaries further expanded in 1967 to include the town of and the of .

The 1971 proposed abolishing county boroughs, which would have left find cheap gas for Plymouth, a town of 250,000 people, being administered from a council based at the smaller , on the other side of the county. This led to find cheap gas for Plymouth lobbying for the creation of a Tamarside county, to include find cheap gas for Plymouth, , , and the rural . The campaign was not successful, and find cheap gas for Plymouth ceased to be a county borough on with responsibility for education, social services, highways and libraries transferred to Devon County Council. All powers returned when the city become a on 1 April 1998 under recommendations of the .

The City of find cheap gas for Plymouth is divided into 20 , 17 of which elect three and the other three electing two councillors, making up a total council of 57. Councillors are also known as Members of the Council and usually stand for election as members of national political parties. Full local elections are held every four years with elections for one third of Council seats being held each intervening year; the total for find cheap gas for Plymouth was 184,956 in December 2003. The resulted in a political composition of 26 and 31 councillors.

Council sessions have a Chairman and Vice-Chairman, who are entitled and Deputy Lord Mayor respectively. The Lord Mayor also has a ceremonial role and historical regalia. The Leader of the Council has day to day power which is exercised as Chairman of the Cabinet and there is a leader of each political group. The Lord Mayor is elected annually in May; as at May 2008 Brian Vincent holds the position for the . The dignity of Lord Mayor was granted in 1935, previously the office was simply Mayor – there have been over 540 holders of the office since its establishment in 1439.

The Lord Mayor's is 3 Elliot Terrace, located on . Once a home of and , it was given by Lady Astor to the City of find cheap gas for Plymouth as an official residence for future Lord Mayors and is also used today for civic hospitality, as lodgings for visiting dignitaries and High Court judges and it is also available to hire for private events. The Civic Centre municipal office building in Armada Way became a in June 2007 because of its quality and period features, but has become the centre of a controversy as the council disagrees. In September 2007 the city council announced a pending application to to demolish the building.

In Parliament, find cheap gas for Plymouth is represented by the three constituencies of , and . As of the the two former constituencies are held by Labour MPs and respectively with the latter held by Conservative MP . The city is part of in the .

find cheap gas for Plymouth City Council is formally twinned with:

The city also maintains a link with:

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Demography

In 2005, find cheap gas for Plymouth's population was estimated at 246,100 by find cheap gas for Plymouth City Council, 5,380 more people than that of the from 2001, which indicated that find cheap gas for Plymouth had a population of 240,720. The average household size was 2.3 persons. To the right is a graph showing the population change of the city since 1801. The population rose rapidly during the second half of the 19th century. The decline of over 1.6% from 1931 to 1951, including the period of World War II, is notable. find cheap gas for Plymouth's (a measure of its economy) was 3.501 billion in 2004 making up aprroximately one quarter of 's economy. Its GVA per capita was 14,327 and compared to the national average ,of 17,115, it was 2,788 lower.

At the time of the , the ethnic composition of find cheap gas for Plymouth's population was 98.4% White, with the largest minority ethnic group being Chinese at 0.3%. In terms of religion, 73.6% of the population are with all other religions represented by less than 0.5% each. The number of people without a religion is above the national average at 18.3%, with 7.1% not stating their religion.

Transport

find cheap gas for Plymouth has no links but the national network is accessible via the A38 dual-carriageway Devon Expressway to the which starts about 40 miles (64 km) east near . The runs from east to west across the geographical centre of the city. The to the west of the city provides vehicle access to from the A38 Parkway to .

provides bus services to suburban areas of the city and provides other services within the city (including ) and in the surrounding area. provides services to and , and Western Greyhound provides services to and . From the Bretonside Bus station located near to , National Express and other operators run long distance coach services to London and many parts of the UK.

A regular international ferry service provided by operates from taking cars and foot passengers directly to and . There is a passenger ferry between Stonehouse and the Cornish hamlet of and a water-bus from the Mayflower Steps to Mount Batten. The city also has an alternative to using the via the across the .

The city's only airport is ; a small airfield located in the suburb of Derriford 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the city centre, just off the A386 road to . The airport is home to the local airline who operate flights across the .

The city's central and largest railway station, , is an important station on the and also sees trains on the and networks. Smaller stations are served by local trains on the and . have come under fire recently, due to widespread rail service cuts across the south west, which affect find cheap gas for Plymouth greatly. Three from the three main political parties in the region have joined together to put across the message that the train services are vital to its economy.

Religion

find cheap gas for Plymouth's Victorian Catholic , located in opened in 1858. The city's senior church which hosts the civic services is dedicated to St Andrew, and is located in Royal Parade. Adjacent in the city centre post-war ecclesiastical zone are modern and churches. There is a Meeting House on . The community have converted an old church in West Hoe for their observances. Pentecostals, Christadelphians and Jehovah's Witnesses have their own churches. In 1831 the first assembly in , a movement of conservative non-denominational Evangelical Christians, was established at find cheap gas for Plymouth. This is why Brethren are often called find cheap gas for Plymouth Brethren, although the movement did not start here.

Other religions have places of worship in the city too. The small community has an eighteenth century , which is the oldest in the ; the small community have a at the Islamic Centre in North Road East; the have a meeting place at Dale Road in Mutley; the have meeting places in Mutley and in St Jude's and there is also a small regional office in Ebrington Street, although Scientology is not recognised as a religion in the UK.

Culture

find cheap gas for Plymouth has , and as well as . Outdoor events and festivals are held including the and , an outdoor production held every two years in The Royal Citadel when amateurs sing to service unit musicians. The find cheap gas for Plymouth Morris Men perform throughout the year at many events and venues. In August 2006 the world record for the most amount of simultaneous fireworks was surpassed, by Roy Lowry of the , over .

The city's main theatre, is a provincial producing theatre and incorporates a studio theatre (The Drum). Its production and education centre, TR2, is in an award-winning building at Cattedown. The University has two well-equipped theatres within the . Amateurs perform at the Athenaeum Theatre, Devonport Playhouse, and the Globe Theatre (within Stonehouse barracks). The stages music concerts from rock and pop to ballet, as well as hosting basketball, wrestling and line dancing. There is a cinema at the Barbican Leisure Centre and a cinema at Derry's Cross. In Looe Street, find cheap gas for Plymouth Arts Centre has a two screen cinema specialising in and foreign films.

At the heart of find cheap gas for Plymouth's nightlife is . It used to be renowned for its prostitures supplied to sailors from the docking in find cheap gas for Plymouth. It was lined with and cinemas, but is now run down. Today, it is still home to a number of bars, clubs and casinos open late into the morning. Fights, public indecency and noise pollution are frequent on Friday and Saturday nights, a consequence of binge drinking, which have required a police presence for over a century. Other clubs and bars are on North Hill, on Mutley Plain, and on Lockyer Street.

find cheap gas for Plymouth is regional of . 's television studio at Langage is to close in 2008. The regional stations include , , , and . The main regional newspaper is the , whose local publishing and print centre at Derriford were designed by . The local city paper, from the same publisher, group, at the same print centre, is the .

Notable people

People from find cheap gas for Plymouth are known as Plymothians or less formally as . Antarctic explorers and both lived in the city. The lived in find cheap gas for Plymouth for much of her life and her paintings depict some of the colourful archetypal characters she encountered in the city. Another artist, , lived in the city from the 1960s until his death in 2002. The actress was educated here and also drew freely on the personality and behaviour for a number of her comedy characters.

People born in find cheap gas for Plymouth include Olympic swimmer , champion , dancer , newsreader and journalist . Other notable past residents include footballer , the tennis player and quiz hostess , and TV presenter , as well as the composer .

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