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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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Assistant Practitioners come together to celebrate

On Thursday 15th June 2017, an awards ceremony was held at Derriford Centre for Health and Wellbeing for Assistant Practitioners (APs) who have completed their training.

Lyndsey Box, Learning and Development Facilitator, was delighted to host the event to applaud all of the APs for their fantastic achievements and to reflect upon the great contribution that they make within their...

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Man named following Plymouth death

The family of 60-year-old John Olver (pictured), who died in Plymouth on Sunday 2 July, have made the following tribute:

The family said: “Avid Plymouth Argyle fan, John Olver, sadly taken too soon. An amazing, loving father of three and a doting grandfather of seven, will be terribly missed by all the family. Rest in peace dad. As a family we would like to thank all the emergency...

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Dementia Friendly shopping returns

Dementia Friendly shopping is returning to Plymouth later this month.

The Dementia Friendly Shopping Day on Thursday 13 July is for shoppers affected by dementia that would like some assistance in three city centre stores.

Marks and Spencer and Boots in Drake Circus and Wilko in the Armada Centre will be participating and shoppers are invited to book a personal supported...

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Endangered Short Snouted Seahorse discovered off Devon coast

An extremely rare breed of seahorse has been discovered off the coast of Devon. The Short Snouted Seahorse, also known as Hippocampus Hippocampus, was found by experts at the National Marine Aquarium and volunteers, as part of an ongoing review into the local marine life, called the Community Seagrass Initiative.

The Biodiversity Action Plan species of seahorse is most commonly found...

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Fertility experts to host open day in Plymouth

Next week, fertility specialists from the South West Centre for Reproductive Medicine (SWCRM), based in Derriford Hospital, will host an open evening, aimed at those who are thinking of starting a family but who have concerns or worries about their fertility.

As well as providing advice and guidance on a range of options, including lifestyle changes and fertility treatments, our...

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Estates manager the winning career for Stoke Damerel Community College

Health Education England (HEE) is delighted to announce that students from Stoke Damerel Community College in Plymouth are the South West regional winners of the Step into the NHS national schools' competition!

Year 8 students Rion Recica and Charlie Harrison impressed the judges with their entry to promote the role of estates manager to their peers. Rion and Charlie created a...

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Dartmoor’s Ten Commandment Stones restored to former glory

Specialist restoration work to the Ten Commandment Stones monument on Buckland Beacon has just been completed. The work was carried out in two phases by Bath-based conservator and lettering expert Iain Cotton.

The first phase, completed in late May, saw the stones cleaned and wrapped in preparation for the restoration work to commence. The second phase of the process saw further...

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New picnic benches transform Plymouth city centre

​Ten new, brightly coloured picnic benches have been installed around Plymouth’s City Centre hand made by jobseekers with learning difficulties.

The benches have been made by talented jobseekers at Pluss Training, an award winning national organisationthat helps thousands of people with disabilities find careers.

They have replaced existing benches in the centre - which had...

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Plymouth first to recruit to post-surgery quality of life improvement programme

Last December, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust became the first site across the UK to recruit patients for a national programme aiming to improve quality of life after surgery.

Major complications following surgical operations can be up to ten times more common than death, yet reducing morbidity tends to be the main focus of research studies. Now, the pilot Perioperative Quality...

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Appeal for witnesses after bike theft

Police were called to Rockin Bikes in Yelverton on Sunday 2 July to reports of a high value burglary.

Offenders broke through rear basement doors to the bike store on Harrowbeer Mews and took approximately £21,000 worth of bicycles. The offenders escaped with the bikes using a Ford Transit van.

The Transit van was later located in Horrabridge by police and all items were...

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