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Plymouth people unable to visit their optician or audiologist can now get a home visit.

Throughout the pandemic, many in and around the city have missed out on essential audiology and eye-health services, so the Specsavers store has launched a home-visiting service to ensure that everyone can receive tests, treatment and help with their glasses and hearing aids.

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The charity Crimestoppers has launched an appeal for anonymous information to help protect hard-pressed rural communities across the West Country. It calls on everyone to play their part in stopping rural crime as more of us are visiting the countryside during the pandemic.

Criminal gangs exploit local wildlife, environment and communities in many ways: rural residents often feel...

The Environment Agency have launched a 12-month pilot with Hello Lamp post to give residents and visitors to Exmouth the opportunity to have a ‘conversation’ with the Exmouth Tidal Defence Scheme. Hello Lamp post allows people to have two-way 'chats' with objects in their local environment. QR codes have been attached to parts of the tidal defence around Exmouth, anyone with a smartphone can...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic medallist and six-time Tour de France stage winner Wout Van Aert will make his Tour of Britain debut next month. The Belgian star is the second rider confirmed for this year’s Tour, which starts in Penzance, Cornwall, on Sunday 5 September and will race into Devon the following day (Monday 6 September). Van Aert will lead the Dutch Jumbo-Visma team at the UK’s biggest cycle...