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Torbay Street Pastors thank police for vital funding to help support safe nights out

Torquay Neighbourhood Police Team has secured £3,000 from the Home Office hotspot policing fund to support the important work of Torbay Street Pastors as they continue to help people who are on a night out.

The money, from a government problem solving fund, will be used by the small...

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Bird expert banks on success in South Africa

A bird expert has travelled from South Devon to South Africa to help save an endangered African seabird. And within days of arriving, Living Coasts Senior Head Keeper Lois Rowell has found herself hand-rearing precious chicks.

Lois, an experienced bird keeper practiced in the delicate art of hand-rearing, is spending six weeks working with bank cormorants. She is helping SANCCOB, a...

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New imaging equipment benefits patients

Four new pieces of digital imaging equipment are now being used in our Radiology Departments at Derriford Hospital.

The installation of the X-Ray machines began last April, with all four rooms on level 6 now being open and equipped with the latest technology.

The main benefit of this technology is the reduction in radiation dose for the patient and improved image quality. In...

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Radio drama celebrates work of Derriford staff

The work of the neurosurgical team at Derriford Hospital will be showcased in a drama on national radio on Friday 1 May 2015.

Actor Tristan Sturrock, who was paralysed in an accident, wrote the award-winning one man stage play, Mayday Mayday, to say thank you to the medical teams at Derriford Hospital who helped him learn to walk again. In the play, Tristan performs around 20 roles,...

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Students are offered life-changing opportunities

From a sustainable grass roots project in South East Asia to working with psychiatric patients in Sri Lanka, more than a dozen students at Plymouth University have been offered life-changing opportunities through an awards fund.

Thirteen undergraduates have been chosen to receive this year’s Roland Levinsky Memorial Fund, which means they can use up to £1,500 to undertake personal...

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Charity bout helps Jeremiah’s Journey punch above its weight

Business people from across Plymouth went toe to toe at a glittering black tie event at Plymouth Pavilions on Saturday to raise thousands of pounds for popular city charity Jeremiah’s Journey.

Glenn Kelly from Bruton Knowles’ Lockyer Street office flew the flag for the city’s leading commercial property consultancy earning a very respectable draw against opponent Ken York from Security...

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British Red Cross Shop Drop for Nepal

The British Red Cross is today (Thursday 30 April) launching ‘Shop Drop for Nepal’ to give people another way to donate to its Nepal Earthquake Appeal.

The Red Cross is appealing to people to clear out their wardrobes and cupboards and donate their unwanted clothes and goods to their local Red Cross shop.

Funds raised from the sale of the items will aid the organisation’s life-...

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Plymouth University climbs in world rankings

Plymouth University is now ranked inside the top 40 global modern universities according to the most comprehensive league table of its kind, released today.

In the Times Higher Education ‘100 Under 50’, Plymouth is placed at 37 – up five places from 2014 – and fourth in terms of UK institutions under the age of 50. The publication’s Editor-at-Large, Phil Baty, described it as a “...

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Plymouth man scoops £70,000 on Lotto

A mystery Lotto winner, known only as Mr T from Plymouth has won over £70,000 without ever touching a ticket.

The lucky man scooped the fantastic prize of £71,387 after matching five main numbers plus the Bonus Ball in the Lotto draw on Saturday 11 April, 2015.

Mr T played Lotto through national-lottery.co.uk and has become one of over six million players that win each week on...

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Social media 'wrecking' marriages

Just under half of all Brits admit they have secretly checked their partner’s Facebook account and one in five went on to row about what they discovered, new research has revealed.

One in seven said they had contemplated divorce because of their other halves activities on Facebook, Skype, Snapchat, Twitter or What’sApp.

Nearly a quarter or the 2,000 married Brits asked, said...

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Bereavement rooms opened by devoted fundraisers

A couple who lost their baby daughter through stillbirth today celebrated, with mixed emotions, opening a special bereavement suite in the maternity unit.

Greg and Jen Phillips set up the Snowdrop Appeal in 2009, after Jen gave birth to Jasmine, who was stillborn at 32 weeks.

Greg explained: “I will never forget the room we had Jasmine in. It was so drab and the skyblue walls...

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