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Active ingredients for a relaxing break

Friday, March 12, 2010

A HOLIDAY at Center Parcs offers a beautiful paradox. Shut the door to your lodge, pour a glass of wine and sit in front of the fire staring out at the woods and you feel like the only person for miles around.

But clamber onto your bike and cycle ten minutes through...

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Award for talented Plymouth film-maker

Friday, March 12, 2010

A TALENTED city film-maker has scooped an award for his latest animated adventure – at the age of just ten. Mr Nada Comes to Plymouth was...

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Mother's Day cards are special memory of heroic son

MOTHER'S PAIN: Rifleman Samuel Bassett's mother Coline who kept all the Mothering Sunday Card her son sent her before he died in Afghanistan

Monday, March 15, 2010

THE MOTHER of a Plymouth soldier killed by a roadside bomb faced her first Mother's Day without a card from her eldest son yesterday. Every year Sam...

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Year has changed the lives of kidney gift couple

DEVOTED: Sam Lamb who lost nearly four stone so she could donate her kidney to husband Andy

Monday, March 15, 2010

AN Ivybridge couple have told of their year-long journey ending with the wife giving her husband a kidney. Sam and Andy Lamb, pictured, said the past...

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The great outdoors, indoors

LEFT: Gerry Jones gets a feel of kayaking. ABOVE: Guest speaker Ray Mears has his turn at making spoons watched by Peter Morgan and Katie Lakeman from Bicton College. </B>RIGHT: Ellie Woodman, 12 from 1st St Budeaux Guides meets Ted, a 3 week old baby goat from Dartmoor Zoo</B>

Monday, March 15, 2010

RENOWNED bushcraft expert and nature lover Ray Mears opened this year's Explore the Outdoors as families flocked to the show. The TV star joined staff...

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Fundraiser, 16, jumps from aeroplane

TAKING THE PLUNGE: Teenager Oli Milroy, with skydive instructor above, takes the plunge in aid of the Drake Foundation

Friday, March 12, 2010

A YOUNG city fundraiser is on cloud nine after leaping 15,000ft out of an aeroplane for charity. Oli Milroy, aged 16, took part in the skydive in aid...

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Mum was the word at special event

Sunday, March 14, 2010

MUMS got a rare chance to sit back and be pampered with massage, beauty treatment and chocolates at an event for Mothers' Day. The event was held at...

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Pensioner's disgust at diseased blood ruling

Friday, March 15, 0110

A PLYMOUTH man who is terminally ill as a result of receiving infected blood from the NHS said he is disgusted after the Government blocked a Bill...

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Hundreds raised in memory of popular school technician

BRAVE AND WONDERFUL: Pete Chappell, who died on February 1

Friday, March 05, 2010

STAFF and students at a Plymouth school have raised hundreds of pounds for charity in memory of a popular technician who died this year. Pete Chappell...

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CHICKS chosen as Plymouth Half Marathon charity

TIME FOR SOME FUN: Children enjoy some CHICKS activities, above, right, and below right

Friday, March 12, 2010

THE excited squeals of happy children can be heard ringing out across Dartmoor. A group of youngsters are enjoying the first taste of their picturesqu...

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