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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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Shake Up September Workplace Challenge

Active Devon is encouraging employees across Devon to try a new sport or activity this month, as Shake Up September from Workplace Challenge aims to get the nation’s workplaces more active.

Workplace Challenge, the free, online activity programme which combines cutting edge technology with sport and physical activity opportunities, is inviting employees in Devon to join the national...

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Rockfish Blue Mile kick-starts Ocean City Festival

The Rockfish Blue Mile got Plymouth's 2015 Ocean City Festival off to a cracking start, with on-the-water action taking place off the Barbican and Hoe waterfront throughout the day on Saturday 5 September.

This was the fifth Plymouth Blue Mile and the first time with new sponsors Rockfish and charity partners, Plymouth-based The Shark Trust.

The day's events got under way in...

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Friends of Liver Lifeline donate fans

A big thank you to Friends of Liver Lifeline, who have kindly donated three Dyson fans to Hound Ward, in celebration of the charity’s fifth year as Derriford Hospital’s liver support group.

Friends of Liver Lifeline, which was launched five years ago by former patient Sheila Connolly, her husband Stephen and fellow transplant patient Michael Stratford, has been continuously raising...

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Exercise could reduce risk of dementia

More than seven in ten people from the South West (77 per cent) are not doing the amount of average weekly exercise recommended by NHS guidelines, despite evidence that taking part in regular exercise can reduce a person’s risk of developing dementia, according to a survey carried out by Alzheimer’s Society to mark the start of Memory Walks on Saturday.

Taking regular physical exercise...

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Urgent appeal for Europe refugee crisis

The British Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal as the refugee crisis in Europe continues to escalate, with hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need of emergency relief.

The number of people forced to flee violence and conflict today is the highest since World War II. Many people are dying on these dangerous journeys to safety in Europe and those that do make it are...

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Hundreds attend bus launch information day

Hundreds of people had the chance to find out more about Plymouth’s new bus network at an event in the city on Saturday.

Stagecoach South West ran the Information Day in the run up to the launch of its new Plymouth network, which will also connect to parts of South Devon and Tavistock, and starts on Sunday September 6.

Staff from Stagecoach South West, including Marketing...

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Councils call for more devolved powers

Council leaders across Devon and Somerset are calling for more devolved powers from Westminster.

The two county councils, Plymouth City Council, Torbay Council and the 13 district councils have all submitted a Statement of Intent to the Government.

They have been joined by Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks and the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership which...

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Craft and Food Market to add festive sparkle to Plymouth

Plans to introduce a brand new kind of Christmas market are underway in Plymouth following the success of Flavour Fest.

In partnership with Miss Ivy Events and Taste of the West, Plymouth City Centre Company are investing in a Christmas Craft and Food Market that will provide a different kind of produce than previous years.

50 stalls of independent businesses and food...

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Hundreds join UK's biggest mass swim

More than1650 swimmers, from the West Country and beyond, will filter into the South Hams for the country’s most famous open water swimming event, the Dart10k this weekend.

Bringing 2.6 spectators each on average with them, the event is expecting to bring 7000 bed nights and a spend of over £1 million into the area over the one weekend.

“It’s all about figures at this stage,”...

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Study explores challenges parents face when choosing schools

The techniques parents use when determining the best secondary school for their children are to be explored in a new study by Plymouth University.

David Carter, Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Business, is appealing for families across the city to take part in research analysing how they make one of the most important choices relating to their child’s education.

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