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First ever employee revisits garden centre 60 years on

With 60th anniversary celebrations well underway, the team at Otter Garden Centres were delighted to be contacted by the business’s first ever employee.

Nigel Blackmore visited the Ottery St Mary garden centre to meet up with founders Marilyn and Malcolm White, who...

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Suspects sought after Plymouth assault

Police are searching for three men following a stabbing in Plymouth.

On Monday 2nd May around 3.30pm police were called to a property in Fairfax Terrace in the Stoke area of the city after reports of an assault.

A 26 year-old man from Plymouth suffered head and buttock injuries as a result of the attack. It is thought he was hit over the head with a weapon and stabbed in the...

Plymouth Pirate Weekend returns

Following the huge success of 2015, the award winning Plymouth Pirate Weekend returns on 14 and 15 May 2016 for a family fun packed weekend in The Barbican and Sutton Harbour.

Come and see Jonty Depp who will be lurking the cobbled streets and go aboard our real Pirate Ship for free. Take part in a Pirate Trail and see if you can uncover Cap ‘n’ Jack’s hidden clues! Test your pirate...

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The third Bladder and Bowel Event

The third Bladder and Bowel Event (BABE) is set to take place on Wednesday 11 May 2016.

BABEs are aimed at supporting people with bladder and bowel problems and are organised by staff from Derriford's colorectal and uro-gynae teams.

Taking place 11am until 2pm at the Future Inn, Derriford, the event will include talks on pelvic floor and breathing exercises, relaxation...

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Conference to educate in digital safety and wellbeing

Experts will be gathering at Plymouth University this month to discuss digital safety in social care, health and education settings.

Among the speakers at the Digital Wellbeing and Safeguarding Conference on 16 May will be Lorin LaFave, the mother of teenager Breck Bednar who was tragically murdered as a result of online grooming.

Lorin told her story recently in the BBC3 TV...

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Charity challenges people in SW to become more deaf aware

During Deaf Awareness Week (2nd-8th May 2016), national charity Action on Hearing Loss is urging people in the South West to become more deaf aware to ensure people who are deaf or have hearing loss are not being excluded from everyday interactions that their hearing peers are taking for granted.

One in six people (11 million) across the UK are currently living with hearing loss, with...

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Plymouth prepares to Buzz

This summer the centre of Plymouth will be blooming, and buzzing with bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects as part of the Urban Buzz project.

Work is already underway to create this vibrant new addition to Plymouth.

Millbay Park, St Andrew’s Cross and Derry’s Cross roundabouts and along Western Approach will be full of beautiful flowers and buzzing with life come the...

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Nurses and midwives find opportunities in revalidation process

Key figures have gathered at Plymouth University to discuss how nurses and midwives can benefit from their professions’ new revalidation process, which went live on 1 April.

Dozens of students and health professionals joined: Professor Bridie Kent, Head of the University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery; Dr Julian Archer, Director of the Collaboration for the Advancement of Medical...

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New book commemorates Battle of Jutland centenary

The grandson of a wireless operator aboard HMS Ambuscade, a destroyer that fought at Jutland in 1916, has published a unique book based on his grandfather’s diaries of the battle which is to raise money for the Royal Navy’s principal charity.

On the 100th anniversary year of the Battle of Jutland, "Duel in the North Sea - HMS Ambuscade at Jutland” by Pat Avery has been released,...

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Students work with celebrated artists and craftspeople at 2016 London Craft Week

Students and academics from Plymouth University will work alongside iconic names from UK music and design to create two highly original, participatory events during London Craft Week.

They will get the chance to shadow master craftsmen from Steinway & Sons as they deconstruct and rebuild a grand piano, which will then feature in two exclusive live performances.

And they...

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Research project launched on how sea lice are impacting salmon fisheries

Plymouth University and the Universidad de Chile are leading a new research project to investigate the issue of sea lice infestation that is costing the Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry millions of pounds in lost stock and treatment strategies.

The two year project will bring together experts across biotechnology, microbiology, immunology and pathology to study the effect that the...

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