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The area outside the reception building at St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth looks stunning after local gardener Sam Ovens worked his green fingered magic and transformed the bare patches of earth in to a fantastic natural garden.

25 year old Sam, from Pelynt near Looe in Cornwall, recently won the Young Designer of the Year Award at the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society’s Flower Show...

September’s Good Food Market at the Royal William Yard (Sunday 7th September 9.30am - 4pm) is going to be busier than ever.

Joining the regular food and drink stalls will be a host of arts and crafts stalls, as well as animals from Pennywell Farm, and the Devon and Cornwall Fireboat based in the harbour, there will be fun activities including street entertainers & face painters....

Standards of cleanliness at Derriford Hospital have been rated as 95.93%, according to a report published last week by the NHS Commissioning Board.

A team of 16 patient assessors carried out a two day assessment at Derriford Hospital, looking at standards in four key areas. Over this period they assessed how the environment supports patient’s privacy dignity and wellbeing, food,...

Businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly wanting to learn more about opportunities in the growing marine offshore renewables (MOR) sector are being invited to an industry event in October. Called ‘MOR Opportunity Knocks’, it will focus on how businesses can tap into a market that could be worth £4.5 billion to the South West economy by 20301.

The far South West is home to unique...