Heartbreak as vandals target the Athenaeum; a Christmas run is launched; welcome home HMS Somerset; and a 1919 tall ship is coming to the Ocean City
It's a Sunday Beagle: August 9, 2026
Plans to give one of Plymouth’s historic buildings a £2 million makeover have been overshadowed after a break-in this week left parts of the Athenaeum badly damaged.
The building in Derry’s Cross was unlawfully entered over several evenings,
