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Local health and care provider, Livewell Southwest, has been named as the new organisation responsible for the running of the Mayflower Medical Group of GP practices in Plymouth from April 2022.

The Group, which covers five sites in Plymouth, is responsible for providing GP services for nearly 40,000 people in the city.

The current arrangements, with provider Access Health...

Hector’s House, a Torquay-based cat rescue and rehoming charity, has been voted as a winner of RGB Building Supplies’ Surprise Supplies initiative and now has £1,000 to spend on materials at RGB’s Torquay branch.

RGB invited charities from across the region to get in touch and explain how a donation of materials would help to complete a project. Alongside Hector’s House, West Cornwall...

A husband-and wife emergency medicine doctor team have landed in the Carribean after rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic as the first ever married couple to participate in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge (TWAC). Following more than seven weeks of rowing, they finished 1st in the mixed pairs ranking and have, so far, raised more than £20,000 for frontline medical charities....

A pilot project has been launched to help support the growth of Devon’s agricultural industry. The £500,000 Devon County Council scheme is being supported through the UK Community Renewal Fund which was recently secured by Team Devon.

The DATA (Devon Agri-Tech Accelerator) project is aiming to provide support and research for farmers, growers, landowners, and other agricultural and...