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Protect your child from flu this winter

Coughs and colds in children are common at this time of year and are usually relatively mild, but parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated against flu, which can be much more serious.

All primary school children, and some secondary school children (years 7, 8 and 9) are eligible for the flu nasal spray this year, which is usually given at school by school nurses....

New Specsavers store for Bideford

DIRECTORS at Specsavers Bideford have announced they will be opening a new store in the town after fire severely damaged the original High Street property.

Gordon Cumming and Kiren Fox are aiming to restart the business at a permanent site just 200 yards up from the previous site, which had been operating as a Specsavers store for more than 20 years.

Shop-fitters will be...

Plymouth school children prepare for Pantosaurus visits ahead of NSPCC’s PANTS week

This week, a pant-wearing dinosaur will be pounding the streets of Plymouth as he looks to spread an important message to children in the city.

Pantosaurus is a popular figure among school children in Plymouth as he is mascot for the NSPCC’s Talk PANTS campaign, which aims to educate children and help them talk about abuse without using scary words.

From October 10th-14th...

Tesco shoppers in Plymouth to hunt for golden charity tokens worth £1million

Between noon and 1pm on October 15th, shoppers in 100 large Tesco stores across the UK will be given the chance to take part in a lucky dip to find specially created gold versions of its iconic blue voting token worth £1million in grants to local good causes.

The finders will then be able to choose which of the three local good causes in Plymouth New George Street store’s current...

Last chance to vote for South West heroes in major awards

Time is running out for you to cast your vote to help a Devon and Cornwall-based project win the coveted ‘Project of the Year’ trophy at the National Lottery Awards 2022.

The annual National Lottery Awards celebrate the people and projects across the UK who do extraordinary things with the help of National Lottery funding.

The public voting stage for the Project of the Year...

Smart Sound Connect Recognised by Industry for Innovation

Smart Sound Connect , the world’s first ocean-focussed 5G testbed, has been recognised by the mobile sector as a cutting edge innovation platform for the development of the next generation of marine technologies.

At the 20th Mobile Industry Awards, held at Lancaster House in London on the 22nd September, Smart Sound Connect was named as the 5G Innovation of the Year (Product/Service...

Local partnership set to give smiles back to survivors of domestic abuse

Award-winning local women's charity, Trevi, is delighted to work with Plymouth-based Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise (PDSE) to deliver life-changing dental treatment to those women affected by domestic violence and abuse.

In the UK, 1 in 4 women will experience domestic abuse, while 1 in 20 women experience extensive and repeated abuse and rape as children and adults. In Devon...

UK's large touring outdoor cinema will return next summer with an Elvis Open-Air Cinema Tour

Following its most successful summer yet, which saw its Mamma Mia tour sell-out, Adventure Cinema will bring more musical joy to the big screen with the new Elvis film starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler.

A celebration of the notorious ‘King of Rock & Roll’, the tour will stop off at some of the UK’s most scenic spaces to screen Baz Lurhmann’s box office hit Elvis, with 38...

Lions Club donation to help refurbishment of much-loved local shop

The Lions Club of Sidmouth has made a big donation to the Samaritans shop on the town’s High Street - just in time for a major refurbishment in the new year.

Quite appropriately, the big donation came in the form of a big cheque, which a pride of Lions handed over to Samaritans volunteers at a ceremony in Sidmouth.

The shop - a former bank - was opened as a fund-raising...

Marianne Steele announced as new Chief Executive of The Donkey Sanctuary

The Donkey Sanctuary today announced the appointment of Marianne Steele as the charity’s new permanent Chief Executive following a thorough, rigorous and competitive global search.

Marianne joined the charity in 2010 as Director of Fundraising and Communications where she oversaw a period of rapid growth.

More recently she stepped into the role of acting CEO, successfully...

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