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Launceston Hospital Minor Injuries Unit
After hearing the damning news last Monday morning that the Launceston Hospital MIU had closed without warning, and would remain closed until October, a group of concerned citizens came together to protest and take concerted action to reinstate this essential service. We have organised an online petition which willContinue Reading
‘Secret’ is just around the corner; always be ready!
Two, recent big-priced selections, Rosa Mystica, a fast-finishing close third, and Thefastnthecurious, length second to hot favourite Future at Windsor on Monday night, could/would have made a massive difference had they prevailed but both provided a psychological tonic for this beleaguered racing columnist who knows ‘big-time’ is still just aroundContinue Reading
Kenwith Castle care home’s activities organiser completes her own bake off to raise money for Dementia UK
Sue Revell, the Activities Organiser at Care South’s Kenwith Castle care home near Bideford, has been busy baking up a storm of delicious cakes at the home to raise funds for Dementia UK. Sue’s cakes were certainly a hit all round and she raised £330 for the specialist dementia supportContinue Reading
Heading to Wales this summer? Take home the knowledge a new law is coming to end the physical punishment of children in Wales
21 March 2022 is a historic moment for children’s rights in Wales. From this day on, all types of physical punishment will be illegal thanks to new Welsh Government legislation. The Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act 2020 will remove an archaic legal defence by outlawing theContinue Reading
Bowls Club 375th Anniversary
I am writing to you on behalf of Great Torrington Bowling Club. You may have heard from Fred Niven earlier in the year about our 375th Anniversary that should have been last year but was postponed because of Covid until this year. We are the third oldest Bowling Club in England andContinue Reading
Sweeping is definitely the main attraction, for ‘big-hitting’ punters!
Thefastncurious (28/1, from 50’s) was our narrowly-beaten each-way second last night at Windsor, thus supplementing earlier gains from our heavily-backed winning nap SILKEN PEARLS on which veteran female jockey, Hayley Turner, was absolutely superb and ‘made a difference’ as they say. We are ntering what is often a ‘golden’ period.Continue Reading
Ellie’s Haven: Plans for the Future
Ellie’s Haven has come a long way since it was founded in 2007 and started providing holidays to families caring for children with long term and life-limiting medical conditions and disabilities in 2015. It’s now approaching a turning point – the need to put in place arrangements so that itsContinue Reading
National Disability Strategy: ‘once in a generation plan’ has been seen before
The UK government’s National Disability Strategy and £1.6 billion in funding was announced recently with great fanfare. Politicians hailed it as a landmark initiative, but on closer inspection, the document is not quite as innovative as advertised – many of the elements contained in it were first considered decades ago,Continue Reading
Cornwall’s Family Foraging Kitchen CIC receives National Lottery funding enabling ongoing wild food education and support for the local community
Rame Peninsula’s social enterprise, The Family Foraging Kitchen, has been awarded National Lottery funding as a part of the Community Fund Scheme. This fund, extending over two and a half years, supports The Family Foraging Kitchen to deliver wild food and heritage craft education to the region, as well asContinue Reading
The loss of our local radio station
What has happened to the erstwhile, much-missed Exmouth community radio station? Having undergone two changes of identity recently, there is not even a mention of Exmouth in the name any more. The station has become a poor man’s clone of local commercial radio, with adverts every few minutes, some ofContinue Reading