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Award-winning Devon dementia champion and advocate turns years of experience into second book

An award-winning dementia champion, advocate and author is drawing on more than a decade of experience to publish her second book, When Time Aligns: Stories of Care from a Dementia Companion , this October.

Gina Awad has spent more than a decade championing better...

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Police hunting for missing man find body

Police hunting for a missing Plymouth man have found a body.

Officers involved in the search for missing 22-year-old Daniel Knapp discovered the body of a deceased male in the Plymbridge area of Plymouth on Friday afternoon (25 September).

Formal identification is yet to be conducted however family members of Daniel Knapp have been informed of developments and police enquiries...

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Road deaths and serious injuries rise

Brake, the road safety charity, is calling on the government to show strong leadership and reintroduce causality reduction targets as the Department for Transport publishes its Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain Annual Report for 2014. It shows that 1,775 people died on the roads (a 4% increase on the year before). 22,807 more were seriously injured (a 5% annual increase).

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Livewell hosts first Arts Festival

Livewell, the health promotion service provided by Plymouth Community Healthcare, is hosting a local Arts Festival throughout October 2015 to promote and celebrate mental health and wellbeing through arts and creativity.

The Livewell Arts Festival will engage local artists and communities across over fifty events in and around Plymouth this October, encouraging local people to tap into...

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New rating scheme launched on tattoo hygiene standards in Plymouth

A new scheme aimed at driving up tattoo hygiene standards in Plymouth has been officially launched.

The Tattoo Hygiene Rating Scheme (THRS) is a voluntary scheme that enables the public to choose a tattooist that meets high standards of hygiene. Similar to the food hygiene rating scheme, following a local authority inspection each tattoo studio is awarded a rating from one star, which...

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Donation enables purchase of analytical equipment

The Plymouth Voluntary Group (PVG) of Diabetes UK (DUK) and the Plymouth Motorcycle Club have kindly donated £3,000 to the Children’s Diabetic Fund, which has enabled the Diabetic Children's Nursing Team to purchase a much wanted piece of analytical equipment.

After raising £1,600 at the Plymouth Megaride, the Plymouth Motorcycle Club decided to donate the money to Diabetes UK. This...

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Have you seen missing Daniel Knapp

Police in Plymouth are appealing for information from the public to help locate a missing man.

Daniel Knapp, (pictured) aged 22 years was reported missing from his home in Chaddlewood near Plympton on Tuesday 22nd September.

He was last seen the previous evening, and police are becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare as this is out of character and he has missed a...

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Plymouth Seafood Festival set to be a fin-tastic weekend

Freshly caught seafood, mouth-watering dishes and an ocean of fun is what will bring the Barbican and Sutton Harbour alive this weekend (26 and 27 September) as the city celebrates the Plymouth Seafood Festival.

Organised by Plymouth City Council for the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership Business Improvement District and sponsored by Plymouth Gin and Brittany Ferries the festival is a...

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Appeal after attempted robbery and assault

Police are appealing for witnesses following an attempted robbery and assault that took place in the Efford area of Plymouth.

At around 4.15am on Sunday 13th September, an 18-year-old man was walking on the footpath that runs from Efford lane towards Channel Park Avenue following a night out with friends.

He was stopped by two men who demanded his mobile phone from him, he...

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Legends' cash for Gold Dust

GT Motorcycles has generously donated more than £300 to the Gold Dust Appeal with the money raising continuing via a collecting tin in their Legends Café.

The Plymouth-based company made the decision to support Gold Dust thanks to café manageress Margaret Gregory. Margaret, whose eight-year-old granddaughter Charleigh-Mae was treated for leukaemia at Derriford, said she wanted to...

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Webcam opens window into underwater world

A marine scientist has installed a webcam in Plymouth Sound, opening a window into the underwater world of one of the most biodiverse coasts in the country.

The Plymouth Underwater Teaching Observatory (PLUTO) has been installed by Dr Nicholas Higgs, of the Plymouth University Marine Institute, as a way of engaging schoolchildren and the general public with science.

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