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Plympton Academy students enjoy adventures by the sea

Year 7 students from Plympton Academy spent three days in Bude recently on their first secondary school residential trip.

The youngsters had the opportunity to take part in a wide range of adventurous activities including, high ropes, kayaking, dragon boating, caving, surfing, mountain biking and body boarding, during their stay at Adventure International.

The aim of the trip...

9 Ways To Get Your Home Ready For Winter

Now that the winter really is starting to set in, and many of us will have been bringing our thicker coats out of storage and searching for our winter boots, there may be one thing that has been forgotten. Is your home ready for winter? Although it may not seem like it, there are many different tasks that need to be completed to ensure that your home is going to be cosy and comfortable...

6 Tips to Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly

A green home translates to significantly reduced power bills, better efficiency from electric appliances and a smaller, overall carbon footprint, but there’s even more to it than that. For example, a well-planned photovoltaic system can not only save money, but it can essentially make a home largely independent of the power grid. Go through the following six tips and see if there isn’t...

Why It’s Important To Look After Yourself as a Parent

Parenting is demanding. No matter what age your children are, parenting presents is own set of challenges. When you have babies, you are constantly in a routine of feeds and nappy changes, when they begin school you need to be there to support their learning at home as well as day to day caring, and when they are teenagers, you have hormones to deal with! Often, being a parent means that you...

Sparkling Christmas illuminations to light up four National Trust places in Devon and Cornwall

Four National Trust houses in Devon and Cornwal will be brightening up the winter evenings and looking their festive best with glowing illuminations in November and December.

The four historic houses will be lit up and visitors can stroll round gardens full of colour at Saltram in Plymouth, Coleton Fishacre near Kingswear, Knightshayes, near Tiverton and Trelissick near Truro in...

Plymouth Neurology team campaign to raise awareness of cluster headaches

The Neurology team at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust are working hard to not only improve services for patients who suffer with chronic migraines, but also to raise awareness of cluster headaches.

On Sunday 4 November, the team hosted a conference in conjunction with OUCH UK, a registered charity that aims to aid the understanding of cluster headaches and offer guidance about...

Donkeys bring ‘bray-time’ into Plymouth school

Children at Woodlands School in Plymouth welcomed some four-legged visitors to their school recently with an educational visit from The Donkey Sanctuary.

The session began with an assembly from Rachel Page, education officer at The Donkey Sanctuary, who talked all about understanding donkeys and their behaviour.

Rachel says: “The children were very enthusiastic and keen to...

The Top Reasons To Redecorate Your Home

Although it’s true that having your home redecorated can be an inconvenient and potentially messy experience, the end result is (when done right) always worth the hassle that the work itself can bring about.

At the end of the redecorating or renovations, the property will look better than it did at the start of the process and can be lived in happily once again. What are the main...

4 Home Investments to Make this Year

There’s a good chance that your property is the single most expensive thing you have ever bought. However, the costs don’t end when you sign all of those papers and finally get your keys! Whether you have purchased your property as a long-term living space or you have an eye on investment, you’re going to need to decorate. Investing in your house can be very rewarding, and not just financially...

Bruton Knowles Champions Charity Fundraising in Plymouth

National property consultants, Bruton Knowles, has launched a new charity partnership with Cancer Research UK, with a target of £30,000 to raise over the next two years.

To raise as much money as possible, Bruton Knowles has internally recruited a Charity Champion. Based in the Plymouth office on Tailyour Road, Ashleigh Phillips, Partner, be responsible for spearheading the...

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