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When Love Becomes Advocacy

As Carers Week prompts conversations about supporting unpaid carers, I’ve found myself reflecting on something that has touched both my professional and personal life recently: advocacy.

And more specifically, what it feels like when advocacy is not a professional role, but something...

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See Saltram in a different light

Throughout January and February, Saltram House near Plymouth will be open and many of its treasures illuminated for the first time.

The East Wing holds some of the house’s grandest rooms, including a spectacular Robert Adam saloon and the Great Kitchen. In past years, the house was closed to visitors out of season, partly to protect the collection from degradation caused by sunlight...

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Plymouth City Council to buy Quality Hotel

Plymouth City Council is buying the Quality Hotel and will market the site, with its commanding views of the renowned Hoe and Plymouth Sound, in a bid to attract an international standard hotel.

The Council has exchanged contracts with the owners of the Quality Hotel and a report is going to Cabinet today (12 January) to give the go-ahead to buy the empty property.

The Council...

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Transat Yacht race returns to Plymouth

The World famous Transat yacht race will return to Plymouth after a successful bid to host the start of the race.

People will be able to see the yachts in Plymouth from 24 April up until the solo sailors start their 2,800 mile race across the North Atlantic on 2 May.

This event will bring a brand new Ocean City Rhythm, Blues & Jazz Festival, as well as an air show and...

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Postgraduate paramedic programme takes off

Plymouth University and the Devon Air Ambulance Trust (DAAT) have welcomed the first students to a new programme thought to be the first of its kind in the world.

The institution and the charity have collaboratively put together a masters (MSc) in Pre-Hospital Critical Care / Transport and Retrieval, which enables paramedics to train specifically for the demands of being an air...

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Elderly woman dies following Plymouth crash

Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious traffic collision in Plymouth following the death of an 87-year-old woman.

Emergency services were called to Notte Street at 11.20am on Wednesday 6 January following the collision between a mobility scooter and a grey Seat Toledo.

The elderly Plymouth woman on the mobility scooter sustained serious injuries and was taken to...

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Universal Credit: What you need to know

The Government’s new Universal Credit comes into effect at the end of this month. The new benefit starts to roll out in Plymouth from 25 January and as a result of this national policy, Plymouth City Council has signed a delivery partnership agreement with the Department of Work and Pension (DWP) to support residents in the claim process. The agreement includes the provision of assisted support...

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National Learn to Play Day returns

National Learn To Play Day is back for its fifth successive year on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th March 2016. It will be bigger and better, with more FREE taster lesson and more music venues, schools, shops, celebrities, musicians and local dignitaries than ever before across the UK.

Organised by Music for All, the charity of the UK musical instrument industry, in partnership with the...

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Lecture encourages people to learn more about rewilding

Two leading proponents of the use of rewilding as a means to enhance conservation and ecosystem restoration are coming to Plymouth University.

Author and broadcaster George Monbiot and Alan Watson Featherstone, founder and director of charity Trees for Life, will be the keynote speakers at an event on Friday 15 January.

Hosted by the Network of Wellbeing and the University’s...

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Local pharmacies help fight flu in Devon

NHS doctors are urging people across Devon to get vaccinated against flu at their local pharmacy, under a new scheme introduced this winter.

After the mildest winter on record, experts are warning that the flu season has now started with increasing numbers of flu like illnesses presenting to GPs, With colder weather expected across the South West from next week the advice is to get the...

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Plymouth to host conference on prevention of extremism

Plymouth is to host a conference on the prevention of extremism with a range of national and regional speakers.

The event has been organised by Plymouth City Council on behalf of the Plymouth Prevent Partnership which is made up of the Council, Devon and Cornwall Police, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue, Probation, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Plymouth University, City College...

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