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South West ambulance paramedic Jonathan Green had his hard work and success at creating new opportunities for patients to take part in health research recognised with a regional award.

The National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network (CRN) for the South West Peninsula judged Jonathan to be the worthy winner of its Research Network Forum award for creating new research participation opportunities.

Jonathan is a research paramedic with South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

Helen Quinn, Chief Operating Officer of the CRN South West...

Darts Farm which has just joined Exeter Pound features in the 2017 2nd Edition of the Exeter Pound Guide published today.

Five thousand copies will be available this week from the 166 businesses in the scheme.

Martyn Goss, Chair of Exeter Pound Board said: "All our local independent businesses are enterprising, colourful, creative and above all unique! We are particularly welcome Darts Farm, a very well known and successful independent local business with a nationwide reputation." Michael Dart from Darts Farm added: "We are proud to be joining forces with Exeter Pound....

Teignbridge residents continue to play their part in improving street cleanliness and increasing recycling rates, as the latest monthly winners of the Council's 'Operation Stack' campaign are announced.

Mr Colin Williams from Kingsteignton was drawn as January’s winner and joined by Dawlish resident Mr Church as February’s lucky recipient of a recycling goody bag, containing a set of recycled wine glasses, a left overs recipe book and various food waste reducers.

Launched in November, Operation Stack has been successfully encouraging residents to stack their recycling boxes...

Certain people succeed at professional gambling for a reason. It is possible to actually become skilled at gambling to a certain extent. While gambling has the reputation of being an activity governed by pure chance and probability, even activities that are highly random can be controlled to a certain extent. People just need to have a solid understanding of what is going on and how they can truly make the different complicating factors work to their favor.

Different computer scientists argue that one day, there will be supercomputers that are so powerful that they will be able to...