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Choosing A Bed When You Have A Specific Room Style: Tips

Walk into any bedroom that's been thoughtfully designed and the bed always belongs there. Walk into one that's been assembled rather than designed and the bed often sits at odds with everything around it. The difference isn't usually about money or taste. It's about whether the bed was chosen...

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Report highlights people with MS in Devon not receiving fair care

New research from the MS Trust surveyed over 1,800 people living with MS. It found that too many people living with progressive forms of MS feel they are getting a second class service, and many feel abandoned by their specialists.

People with progressive MS make up almost half of the UK’s 100,000 MS population. But 40% of them haven’t seen an MS specialist nurse in the past year and...

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Ten Tors success for the Ridgeway and Devonport High School for Girls training group

Ten Tors success for the Ridgeway and Devonport High School for Girls training group.

All four teams in the Ridgeway and Devonport High School for girls training group are celebrating success following the annual Ten Tors event. The training group comprising of combined teams from both schools all completed well within the allocated time. With teams entered at all distances for the 35...

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Plymouth lecturer tackles Scotland's Wilds for charity

Law Lecturer Ann Lyon has a point to prove as a competitor in a renowned Scottish endurance event created to raise funds and awareness for the plight of ex-services’ personnel and their families.

The 56 year-old lecturer in the Law Department of The University of Plymouth, is a former TA army reservist and an enthusiastic supporter of military causes.

The Cateran Yomp is a 54...

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Average cost of dental check-ups vary by £44 across UK

The price of private dental care in the UK varies dramatically by postcode, with a difference of 80% in price for routine check-ups across the country. The average cost for a simple check-up is now £51, an increase of a whopping 42% compared to last year, according to new research released by global healthcare search engine, WhatClinic.com.

The data, based on fees charged by 14,000...

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Are you allergy aware when you eat out?

A year on from the introduction of new allergen labelling rules, how are food businesses in Plymouth getting on?

To mark Allergy Awareness Week 2016, the City Council is reminding food business in Plymouth about the rules which went live in December 2014. Since then, all food businesses in the city have had to verbally explain and/or signpost to where allergen information can be found...

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Destination: Saltram, travelling the world through the collections

Destination: Saltram is a new pop-up exhibition exploring the world through the collections of the eighteenth century National Trust house near Plymouth. Opening on Saturday 7 May, the temporary exhibition will run until Sunday 26 June.

A two-hundred year old vase from misty Japanese mountains, tales of heroism and tragedy from Ancient Greece, and risqué painted mirrors imported from...

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Tying Knots in Plymouth with artist Elena Brake

Elena Brake, a 23-year-old BA (Hons) Fine Art student from Plymouth College of Art, recently completed Tying Knots, a very successful performance involving members of the public in Plymouth city centre.

Designed to draw attention to the everyday action of tying a knot and the ways simple things like this can be overlooked, Elena set up a box and two stools beside the sundial in the...

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Plymouth Live Music Night

Friday 27 May 2016

Plymouth Live Music Night in May provides even more fantastic live music by your favourite local bands! Sponsored by C&G Catering. From 7pm, get yourself down to Plymouth’s Piazza for a free night of performances:

Enjoy Jacob Hunt, an acoustic aspiring musician who took to MTV Crashes Plymouth stage in 2015, Rockafella; an energetic four-piece rock covers...

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World record attempt in Plymouth City Centre

Four students supported by the University of Plymouth Students Union will be attempting to break the world record for the most T-shirts worn inside out in the same place at the same time. The attempt will take place on the City Centre Piazza on the 6th of May at 11:30am and is being called #INSIDE OUT.

The main focus of the attempt is to show the local community what can be achieved...

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Gardeners beware! 2016 heralds the year of the Sleepless Superslug

Wyevale Garden Centres is warning the gardeners of Britain to prepare for an increase of supersized slugs this spring, thanks to our unseasonably mild winter.

Due to a change in recent weather patterns and a lack of hard frost, our slug population is booming. Unlike snails, slugs are active above 5°c and Britain’s mild winter means they’ve been awake for a longer season than usual and...

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