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14-year-old Ivybridge Community College students achieve A*s.

There was double the excitement for one Devon family today, as twins Ella and Phoebe Middleton both achieved A* grades in their Italian GCSE exams, scoring exactly the same marks across all four units of their work.

And what made the achievement even more incredible is that the girls are both in year nine – aged just...

Record Breaking Results!

Another record-breaking year for Marine Academy Plymouth; 98.8 per cent of students have achieved five or more GCSEs or equivalent (95 per cent achieving five GCSEs A* to C [last year this was 85.2 per cent])

Marine Academy Plymouth students will celebrate record-breaking results for the school as they collect their exam results today.

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Julie Williams from Plympton, Plymouth was one of six lucky winners in a recent competition run by Australian wine maker, McGuigan Wines. Julie and her brother Martin won the chance to spend a day in London taking part in a cookery master class with celebrity chef and Masterchef presenter, John Torode.

The winners gathered at cookery school, L’Atelier des Chefs in central London, where...

Four firefighters are attempting the challenging bike ride from John o'Groats to Lands End over a period of nine days. They plan to set off on the 3 September and hope to raise money for the Fire Fighters Charity and Motor Neurone Disease Research.

Taking part are Tom Statton from Crownhill in Plymouth, Adam Mckee and James Davey from Middlemoor in Exeter and Lee Foreman from Taunton...