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MORE than 175 apprenticeships are waiting to be snapped up by youngsters looking to start work after their exams this summer, it has been revealed.

School-leavers in Devon and Cornwall are being urged to avoid the post-exam rush and think now about securing an apprenticeship in their chosen career, and not wait until September.

Mark Boulting, managing director of Plymouth-based...

With the sixth annual Big Lunch taking place in thousands of communities in the South West on Sunday 1 June, celebrity cook Jack Monroe has shared a scrumptious selection of affordable recipes perfect for any Big Lunch.

The Big Lunch - the UK’s biggest get-together for neighbours - is a very simple idea from the Eden Project, encouraging people across the UK to have lunch with their...

Adults in the south west are among the most likely in England to consider becoming a foster carer, according to a poll released by leading charity the Fostering Network.

The YouGov poll, published to coincide with the start of Foster Care Fortnight, found that 26 per cent of adults in the south west would consider becoming a foster carer either now or in the future, compared with a UK...

Local law firm, Kitsons, has become the first local business to directly fund a children’s hospice nurse at Children’s Hospice South West Little Bridge House in Fremington, North Devon.

The firm of solicitors, which has offices in Exeter, Torquay and Plymouth, has pledged £1,000 towards CHSW’s ‘Sponsor a Nurse’ campaign, an exciting new corporate initiative that allows business to...