Charities

Westcountry Land has secured planning permission for a brand new equestrian centre for South West Equine Protection (SWEP).

The charity helps moorland ponies from Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor who are suffering from neglect or injury. Staff rescue, treat and rehome ponies on a loan scheme and are currently working in a number of different yards around Yelverton.

The new equestrian...

Ladies, it’s time to take the fight to cancer at Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.

Let’s face it. Cancer is a nasty piece of work. It will affect one in three of us. It will stroll into our lives and ruin everything without even flinching.

We will beat it though. We’ll wipe that smile off its stupid face. Cancer’s going down. And every single pound we raise pushes it closer...

Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cambridge, is celebrating Children’s Hospice Week, and has recorded her first ever video message to encourage people to support their local children’s hospice service.

The video message will be aired for the first time on Sunday April 28th to celebrate Children’s Hospice Week (April 26th – May 3rd) which is the UK wide awareness and fundraising...

A former patient from Torrington Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) has presented staff with a generous donation of £3,000 and thanked the staff for their care.

Sid Pascoe was admitted to Derriford Hospital for a triple bypass in December 2009 following an electrocardiogram (ECG).

The money was raised last year from a number of charity events held at Lostwithiel Golf Club while...