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Thirteen schools across Tavistock are holding a poetry festival to show young people that poetry is great fun and something everyone can do.

Tavistock Cooperative Learning Trust has created a week-long poetry event which will take place between 29 September and 3 October to encourage people to look at poetry and poets in a new light.

Each school will be visited by a...

An innovative programme pioneered by Plymouth academics which brings actors into the classroom to encourage and support children to make healthier choices on diet and exercise has been selected to feature in this week’s British Science Festival.

The Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) is being run by specialists from the University of Exeter Medical School and Plymouth University...

Kate Adie, Joanna Trollope, Will Self and Sir Andrew Motion are among the star names appearing at the 2014 Plymouth International Book Festival.

Costa Prize winning novelist Nathan Filer is also part of the line-up, alongside Man Booker Prize judge Sarah Churchwell, BAFTA nominated screenwriter M R Hall, and Sarah Hilary, whose novel Someone Else’s Skin was recently named in Richard...

An exhibition of art made out of marine litter has washed up at Living Coasts in Torquay. My Sea, Your Sea. Keep it Litter Free delivers a strong, simple message - we have to stop treating the sea like a rubbish dump.

Living Coasts Operations Manager Clare Rugg said: “This is a fantastic exhibition. It’s fun and intriguing and will appeal to all ages. As a charity, Living Coasts is...