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GB baseball stars coming to Exeter

Women’s baseball players from across the region will descend on Exeter next month for a special tournament celebrating the growth of the sport and encouraging more women and girls to get involved.

The event, organised by Exeter Baseball Club, takes place at Winslade Park on Saturday,...

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Appeal after assault on Plympton schoolboy

Witnesses are sought by police to an unprovoked assault on a 14-year-old schoolboy in Plympton last week.

The Plympton boy was walking home along Triumphal Crescent after seeing a friend when the incident happened at around 7.30pm on Wednesday [24 January].

The victim had his head down and was looking at his mobile phone when he was approached by a male and hit in the face. He...

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Police appeal for witnesses to hate crime incident in Plymouth

Detectives investigating a hate crime incident in Plymouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward.

The incident happened at around 2.45pm on Tuesday 16 January at the top of Royal Parade by the pedestrian crossing on the church side.

The victim, a local man aged in his sixties, was surrounded by a group of six or seven young people who took his...

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Make friends, have fun and raise money to help people in crisis by volunteering at your British Red Cross charity shop in Plymouth

A friendly team of volunteers at the British Red Cross charity shop in Cornwall Street, Plymouth are looking for new recruits to give some free time in exchange for a fun, sociable way to make a difference to people in crisis.

Volunteering in a Red Cross shop is something anyone can do, whether they have several afternoons a week to spare, or just a few hours each Saturday morning. The...

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have fun and raise money to help people in crisis by volunteering at your British Red Cross charity shop in Plymouth

Pups to the rescue as Plymouth welcomes The Paw Patrol

Chase and Marshall from PAW Patrol will be in the city on Tuesday, February 13 in the atrium of the city’s premier shopping centre Drake Circus.

PAW Patrol, as seen on Nick Jr., thrills pre-schoolers every week with tales about a pack of search and rescue dogs led by a boy called Ryder.

Together they protect the seaside community of Adventure Bay, rescuing people in peril with...

RSPCA ensures every fire engine has animal oxygen masks

Every one of the 121 fire engines in Devon and Somerset will soon be equipped with animal oxygen masks – thanks to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).

For a number of years, the Service has worked with the charity Smokey Paws to enable local groups and organisations to generously provide the masks to their local fire stations.

Now the RSPCA has...

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Exeter University Officer Training Corps cadets compete in Army Telemark Championships

Earlier this month 80 skiers participated in Exercise Telemark Titan the British Army Telemark Skiing Championships held in the picturesque setting of Pralongan-la-Vanoise in the French Alps.

Among this number were a team of eight Officer Cadets from Exeter University Officer Training Corps (EUOTC), many of them attempting Telemark, a discipline which incorporates downhill, jumping...

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Work begins at Teat’s Hill

Work has started on turning a tired Plymouth park into a community destination.

Diggers are on site at Teat’s Hill in Cattedown, where a new outdoor amphitheatre is being installed alongside improved play equipment.

The project sees the coming together of several different council initiatives including Hands Up for Plymouth Play and the Active Neighbourhoods Project.

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Plymouth foster carers celebrated at special award ceremony

Foster carers from across Plymouth have been praised for their invaluable service to children and young people at a special celebration ceremony.

The Celebration in Excellence event, which was held at Devonport Guildhall, celebrated the outstanding continued commitment and dedication of carers.

The Council paid tribute to the contribution all carers make towards the lives of...

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The importance of experts

It has become something of a cliché in these days of Brexit, but making sure that you pay attention to experts is vital. Whether you are looking to make home improvements, refresh your CV or look into ways of making your business run more smoothly, experts are called that because they’ve dedicated their careers to know all that they can about a subject. Just as you wouldn’t let a gardener try...

Join the nation in discovering what birds are visiting your Plymouth gardens

The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch is set to bring more than half-a-million people together this weekend (27, 28, 29 January) as they uncover what is happening in their garden, helping to create an annual snapshot of how UK birds are doing. Now in its 39th year, the Birdwatch is a chance for people of all ages to count the number of birds that visit their garden to help the RSPB build up a picture...

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