A brief look at the news from all around Plymouth.

DETAILS: The Woodstock School of Arts will begin fall and winter classes in September. A variety of regular classes in watercolors, figurative clay sculpture, drawing, painting, composition, illustrations and fine arts, printmaking, sketches.

SNIPER'S BULLET returned to Mudgee trainer Tracey Bartley's stable this week and will be aimed at group 1 races in Perth. Last year's Stradbroke winner enjoyed eight weeks in the paddock and is likely to have two runs in Melbourne late this spring before heading west.

Stores in Kingston that are equipped with lottery terminals are installing new equipment that requires people buying cigarettes to provide their driver's ...

7, 7 pm, The Ryan Center, University of Rhode Island Kingston, Kingston, RI $40.50. 401-788-3200 or theryancenter.com. McCarthy Team Benefit Comedy Show, ...

WhatsOnStage.com, UK - Sep 4, 2008Further ahead, the Rose Theatre, Kingston will hold a gala, black-tie evening on Sunday 5 October 2008 at 7.30pm. Entitled Night of East End Stars, ...

Queen's university has added more bedrooms into its residences this year to meet increased demand from lower-and upper-year students that wanted to live on campus. This year, the university had 4,000 students apply for residence rooms, more than the 3,761 rooms spread through 15 residences on the main [...]

NFL REGULAR SEASON WEEK 1 Today's game Washington at N.Y. Giants, 6 p.m. Sunday's games Detroit at Atlanta, noon Cincinnati at

The stage musical Anne & Gilbert is to tour Ontario this fall on the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original Anne of Green Gables.

National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles are selling briskly, and one small-town mayor has spent a sleepless night worrying. The New Orleans area is skittishly watching as a storm marches across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary.

Residents bail out water with buckets at the flooded front of a house during heavy rains caused by Hurricane Gustav in Leogan, southern Haiti, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. The death toll from Hurricane Gustav is up to 22 in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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It could be a seminal week for UK Athletics on the road to London 2012. Dave Collins, the national performance director, will return to work tomorrow facing the sack with Charles van Commenee, the Dutch coach who guided Denise Lewis to Olympic success in Sydney, being lined-up to replace him.