Lifestyle

Monty Halls, TV presenter, marine biologist, travel writer and diver, will host the launch of the Metta Catharina Exhibition at Mount Edgcumbe House.

The Metta Catharina, a Danish brigantine en route from St Petersburg in Russia to Genoa in Northern Italy was caught by a fierce storm in the English Channel in December 1786. She found shelter from the South Westerly’s just off Mount...

A campaign to extol the benefits of beekeeping and a series of thought-provoking city guides have earned three students awards in a national competition.

The Plymouth University students triumphed in two categories of the RSA Student Design Awards 2013, which aim to reward those who demonstrate how the insight and processes of design can solve 21st century problems.

The awards...

Public sector executives across the South West are being challenged to take action on dementia in a new initiative being led by the universities of Plymouth and Bournemouth.

A two-day Dementia Leadership conference is being held this week, with speakers including Government minister Norman Lamb MP, the National Clinical Director for Dementia in England Professor Alistair Burns, and...

This year's National Blood Week runs from 10-16 June 2013. This annual campaign aims to recruit much-needed new donors and highlight the life-changing treatments and surgeries that donated blood helps to make possible.

National Blood Week was launched in 2011 when a hugely successful week saw more than 10,000 people across England and North Wales 'make a date to donate'. Singers Sophie...