On the face of it Plymouth’s Mutley Plain looks like a place that is on the way to somewhere else - but delve deeper and you find all sorts of gems on the high street and a community with a big heart that is doing its best to overcome challenges.

When I visited for the first time this week, I was invited along to the first repair cafe taking place in the Mutley Baptist Church, an idea being championed by city Labour councillor for the area Angela Penrose which is clearly going to become a popular monthly social event.

Since her two years in office Cllr Penrose has got her teeth stuck into all sorts of projects in Mutley including tidying up and monitoring the park which had previously been frequented by drug users, campaigning to get pedestrian lights at a busy junction and saving the po

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