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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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All Stars to stage Summer Show

Members of The All Stars Theatre Company, which is run for adults with learning difficulties, are staging their annual summer show of singing and dancing on Sunday June 14, to raise awareness of the work the company does for those with learning disabilities.

Every Saturday the Plymouth-based company meets and, under the guidance of founders David and Janet Halifax, adults learn songs...

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Complaints investigated by RSPCA rise

The RSPCA’s annual figures for 2014 show that cruelty complaints investigated by the charity in the south west and central England have gone up once again.

More worrying still is that the numbers of complaints involving direct cruelty including beatings, improper killing, mutilation and poisonings formed 12.5% of the total number of complaints.

The charity investigated 28,800...

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Saks to open salon in Plymouth

Saks, the UK’s favourite salon group, has welcomed another salon to its ever-increasing network.

Saks Plymouth, based in the Virgin Active Devonshire Club, will be opening the doors of their new salon at Virgin Active, Plymbridge Lane, Derriford at the beginning of May.

Ellie and Tom Wilson are already the successful franchisees of Saks Exeter - this year's Saks Hair Salon of...

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Rising CO2 levels stunt sea shell growth

Scientists have discovered that stunted growth can be a genetic response to ocean acidification, enabling some sea creatures to survive high carbon dioxide levels, both in the future and during past mass extinctions.

Using natural CO2 seeps as test sites, the international team of marine scientists and palaeontologists have studied the way in which sea snails cope in more acidic...

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Police appeal after garage burglary

Police are appealing for witnesses following a burglary at the rear garage of the Foresters Arms public house, situated on Fore Street, Plympton St Maurice in Plymouth.

It is believed that the burglary took place at between 3.20am-4.30am on Saturday 28th March.

The garage is accessed via a small rear lane and was rented to a local carpenter who used it to store tools and power...

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National Stalking Awareness Week

IS IT STALKING? That is the vital question being addressed in a new awareness film being released by the UK’s leading personal safety charity to launch National Stalking Awareness Week (20 -24 April 2015)

With 1 in 6 women and 1 in 12 men being stalked at some point in their lives the film, commissioned by charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust, helps to educate the public about what stalking is...

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Funeral costs set to rise

After decades of the number of deaths in the UK falling, 2015 will mark a “tipping point” where the historic trend starts to reverse: as the oldest of the babyboomer generation move through their later years deaths are predicted to rise by 20%.

This trend reversal will have significant implications for current forecasts of funeral costs and highlights a growing need for families to...

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AronRa to speak in Plymouth

Ever wondered what it would be like to live in a modern Christian theocracy? Plymouth Humanists' first international speaker will be providing a window into what it's like to live somewhere where religion holds a lot more power than in the UK.

Texas State Director of American Atheists, AronRa will be speaking in Plymouth on the 28th of this month in the B-Bar at 7:30. Aron will be...

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Sale raises funds for Derriford patients

Volunteers Robin Younge and Elizabeth Taylor run a table top sale every Tuesday between 8.30am–12.30pm, in the Main Outpatients Department at Derriford Hospital, which raises funds for The Plymouth and District Leukaemia Fund.

Since setting up the table in 2006, a total of £26,000.00 has been raised for the charity, with members of the public donating items to sell, including knitted...

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Bishop Nick welcomed as new Bishop of Plymouth

Bishop Nick will be welcomed as the new Bishop of Plymouth at a special service this Sunday 19 April, 4pm in St Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, to which all are welcome.

Prior to being Bishop of Crediton, Bishop Nick was Rector at St Andrews in Plymouth and so will be welcomed back warmly by all those who already know him.

Before that he was for seven years Rector of Hatherleigh in...

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