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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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Smokers warned of amputation risk

Experts are warning that more than a million people in the UK – 90% of whom are smokers or ex-smokers- could be living with a serious vascular condition that can lead to leg amputation or a fatal heart attack.

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is urging smokers to give up the deadly habit on No Smoking Day (9 March) and lower their risk of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) – a silent...

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Plymouth Dementia Awareness Day

Plymouth residents and organisations will be able to find out more about dementia as part of a Dementia Awareness Day next week.

There will be free one hour dementia awareness sessions throughout the day on Wednesday 24 February between 10am and 4pm. The event has been organised jointly by Plymouth City Council, Plymouth Dementia Action Alliance and the Healthy High Streets Group....

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Star gazing at Ridgeway School

GCSE astronomy students from Ridgeway School took advantage of the dark winter evenings recently.

The Year 10 and 11 students stayed on at school for a star party. This is where they look at the stars and then complete their constellation drawing controlled assessment.

The controlled assessment requires them to draw three constellations and compare the brightness of the major...

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Derriford Hospital throws open its doors

Derriford Hospital in Plymouth will be opening its doors to everyone on Saturday 19 March for the Open Day 2016 event

Everyone is welcome to go along to the hospital between 10am and 2pm and see what goes on at theTrust.

The event offers something for everyone, including:

• Step inside an operating theatre • Meet hospital military staff • Bring your Teddy Bear to the...

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Plympton pupils take part in International Safer Internet Day

Students from Ridgeway School have taken part in a day to promote the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology.

The International Safer Internet Day is celebrated in more than 100 countries and is in its thirteenth year. This year’s theme was ‘play your part for a better internet’.

Running up to the day students got involved in a number of activities to help to...

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Popular BBC Radio Devon presenter to quit

Managers at BBC Radio Devon have been dealt a bitter blow after one of their most popular broadcasters told them he was quitting the station.

Although no formal announcement has been made, the Daily understands Bill Buckley is on his way out.

A station insider has told us that he has been signed up by BBC Radio Berkshire.

He will join other big-name broadcasters Paul...

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Snowflake Run turns passion into progress to help save more lives

SALTRAM Park was transformed into a winter wonderland on Sunday as hundreds of runners united with one mission in mind – to give cancer the cold shoulder.

Men and women in a spectacular array of beanies and bobble hats were showered in snow for the first ever 10k Cancer Research UK Snowflake Run in Plymouth - one of just four taking place across the UK this February.

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New project focuses on dementia in farming and rural communities

Dementia is a growing health problem, with an anticipated increase in the number of cases of 156 per cent between now and 2051, according to statistics from the Alzheimer’s Society.

This equates to two million people, and the burden will fall on rural areas where there are significantly higher proportions of elderly people.

The burden will impact farming businesses, communities...

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Top acts announced for MTV Crashes Plymouth

MTV have announced today that consecutive chart toppers Rudimental and pop music heavyweight Jess Glynne will be heading up the stage at Day One of MTV Crashes Plymouth on Thursday 28 July.

The following night Example will be returning to the city, joining Tough Love and more top DJs (still to be announced) for a roof-raising Club MTV finale.

After the huge success of last year...

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Plymouth welcomes Charlie Hedges

As the busiest female DJ in the UK with a daily audience of 1.8 million radio listeners, her own mix series on board every British Airways flight worldwide and now the face of Skiddle.com’s brand new Weekends Matter podcast, Charlie Hedges isn’t one to do things by halves. So, rather than fade away onto a listings page near you, Charlie Hedges will soon be taking her inimitable brand of up-...

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