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Devon Charities invited to benefit from huge weekend of live music

Charities across Devon are being encouraged to get involved in the county’s biggest music event this summer.

TK Maxx presents Live at Powderham runs for four nights from Thursday June 25 to Sunday June 28, featuring headline shows from vocal...

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How to quit smoking over Christmas

The negative factors associated with smoking are common knowledge – they contain over 7,000 chemical compounds including carbon monoxide, arsenic, formaldehyde, cyanide, benzene, toluene and acrolein.

However surveys from ASH show about two-thirds of the 10 million adult smokers would like to stop smoking but only about 30%-40% make an attempt to quit in a given year.

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Views sought on school admission arrangements

Plymouth City Council is asking people what they think of its proposed admission arrangements for entry to schools in September 2017.

Anyone with an interest in school admissions is invited to make a response to the consultation.

Comments are needed on:

• admission numbers for all schools • key dates in the admissions process • admission arrangements for all of the...

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MTV Crashes Plymouth tickets go on sale

Dates for next year’s MTV Crashes Plymouth have been confirmed and music fans can get their hands on tickets from Monday 21 December.

The spectacular live music event, organised by MTV in collaboration with Plymouth City Council, will be returning for its third year on Plymouth Hoe on the evenings of Thursday 28 and Friday 29 July 2016.

MTV Crashes Plymouth has grown year-on-...

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Make your home sparkle this Christmas, without the fire sparks

In homes across the UK fairy lights are twinkling and gifts are being wrapped, however millions of us will be taking dangerous chances with our safety this festive season, according to research from Electrical Safety First. To ensure that these risks are reduced, the Charity is highlighting common activities that we may not know are putting our households in danger.

Research recently...

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Is your landlord a 'rogue' or 'in vogue'

The National Landlords Association (NLA) is asking tenants across the country if they can tell the difference between good and bad landlords, as part of their new campaign, Reinventing Renting.

Reinventing Renting looks at the characteristics and qualities of professional landlords and seeks to help tenants identify whether their landlord is a ‘rogue’ or ‘in vogue’.

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Christmas jumper day at Ridgeway School raises money for local charities

There was lots of Christmas spirit at Ridgeway School recently when students wore Christmas jumpers to school to raise money for local charities.

Each student who took part in the Christmas Jumper Day donated £1 towards the Junior Leadership Teams chosen charities. They raised £354.15.

The chosen charities are:

· Year 7: Snowdrop Appeal to support parents of stillborn...

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Students steam into action at simulated crisis

Paramedic students have put their skills to an explosive test by attending to casualties in a simulated train crash.

Twenty-nine Students from Plymouth University took part in the crisis exercise at Churston railway station, which was organised by Dartmouth Steam Railway and Riverboat Company in conjunction with Torbay Hospital, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service and Devon and...

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Study suggests second home owners feel they have positive impact on tourist communities

Second home owners in the South West believe they have an overwhelmingly positive impact on the region, generating opportunities for employment and boosting the economy.

They do not believe they are taking homes away from local people – instead filling properties that would otherwise lay vacant – but are creating jobs that enable people to live in the county.

They are among the...

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First PiXL apprentice at Ridgeway School

A national scheme, taken up by a school in Plympton to develop student’s employability skills, has its first apprentice. Every student at Ridgeway School has been registered for PiXL Edge and 13 year old Phoebe Lansley in Year 9 is the first to gain the apprentice award. PiXL Edge is a framework for schools to develop in students those personal attributes essential for employability and life....

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GCSE certificates evening at Ridgeway School

The Ridgeway School GCSE Certificate and Awards evening was held recently to celebrate the personal, academic, sporting and community achievements of last year’s Ridgeway GCSE students.

The students were presented with their GCSE Certificates and awards. This year it included the new award of Sports Personality of the Year, which was won by Liam Weir.

The evening was hosted by...

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