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The Splash Pad at St Thomas Pleasure Ground will open for the first time at 2pm on Friday (23 May). The facility replaces the old paddling pool, which despite being popular and much-loved was showing signs of age.

The City Council hopes the Splash Pad will become a hit with youngsters not only from St Thomas but from all over the city.

The City Council has replaced the paddling pool with a brand new water splash play area that is unique to the city.

A series of water fountains, cannons and a tipping bucket now entertain children on top of a brightly coloured rubber...

Crossing the finishing line in just under six hours and raising £2,000 for charity was a poignant moment for first-time London Marathon runner Diane Collett.

After losing her mother to cancer just two months previously and supporting her sister through her own brave battle with the disease, 2014 has been a tough year for the 48-year-old business director.

And while Diane is first to admit that finishing in 5 hours 55 minutes breaks no world records, she is determined to secure a place next year to raise even more cash for charities close to her heart.

“I had run a...

Cornish bee experts have been awarded a Lottery grant to help save the county’s very own honey bee. And a Devon conservation charity is playing its part.

B4 - Bringing Back Black Bees - is a Cornwall-based conservation organisation working to promote the qualities of the native black honey bee Apis mellifera mellifera.

Their project, ‘Strengthening the Heritage of the Cornish Black Bee’, has been given a Heritage Lottery Fund Sharing Heritage grant of nearly £10,000 to help communicate the benefits of the Cornish strain of honey bee and to encourage bee enthusiasts to keep...

Police are appealing for information following a burglary at a home in Aylesbeare, Exeter, on Saturday (10 May). Offenders forced a door to get inside the home sometime between 9.30am and 7pm. After making an untidy search of the house, they stole a black laptop, a still camera and a £1,500 projector, various items of jewellery and a brass compass in a box. They also took a distinctive scalloped edged silver tray engraved with ‘Ultra International’ which was from a conference in New Delhi. Anyone who saw anything suspicious or has been offered any of the items for sale is asked to contact...