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Local Devon based Artist Becky Bettesworth was absolutely thrilled when the Community Services Team at the Albany Clinic in Newton Abbot asked her to donate one of her prints for their newly redecorated kitchen.

Becky said “It was an absolute pleasure to be asked to open the newly decorated kitchen facilities for the Community Services Team. The staff chose my Go with the Flow artwork print and I was so happy to donate this to them. The League of Friends fundraised and raised the money to have it framed which was brilliant”. To celebrate this new space for the staff, the Team did a...

Browsing through the glamorous Insta-posts, have you ever wished you could get as good a picture as theirs? Of course you have. We all have. We are a generation that’s obsessed with photographs. And why shouldn’t we be? Photos are a brilliant way to reach out, flaunt and preserve precious moments in moments in life.

While we are extremely fortunate, as we can pick a great photo editor for PC and enhance our photos whenever we want, here are a few tips that would help you capture much greater shots and keep those “likes” flooding in.

Get closer to the subject

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The installation of a statue commemorating Nancy Astor, the first female MP to sit in the UK Parliament, has moved a step closer after an artist was chosen to sculpt it.

Hayley Gibbs has been announced as designer of the statue by the judging panel for the committee that ran a successful Crowdfunding campaign to raise the required money to commission it.

“I am so honoured and excited to have my design selected for this ground-breaking piece of public art,” she said.

The target of £125,000 was smashed on January 30, allowing the committee to move onto the...

The idea that we need to make our cities more sustainable isn’t a new one. However, instead of talking about how important it is to establish these more environmentally-friendly cities, our focus perhaps needs to lie more in howwe achieve this.

Granted, there isn’t a magic solution as to how we can do this, nor will the same approach work for each and every city. But there are some key ideas that could work in the cities and towns we know and love.

Here are just some of these ideas:

1. Aiding Mobility

It probably goes without saying that if we want to...