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FORCE Cancer Charity celebrated the end of its 30th anniversary year with a Back to the 80s Christmas party that attracted businesses, organisations and groups of friends from across the South West.

Nearly 500 partygoers in fancy dress packed the University of Exeter Great Hall to have a good time and raise around £3,000 for FORCE, which has been supporting local people with cancer since 1987.

Ra-ra skirts, shell suits, crimped hair and costumes inspired by film, TV and gaming characters were the order of the night from Super Mario to Top Gun right through to E.T. and Dirty...

More money will be spent on adult social care, health and children’s services next year if Devon County Council’s target budget is agreed in February.

The council’s powerful Cabinet approved the target budget for 2018/19 today, (Wednesday).

It will have to be ratified at the Budget meeting in February.

The target budget calls for an extra £13 million to be spent on adult care and health. That’s a rise of over 6 per cent and would take the total care budget to £227.8 million.

There will also be an increase in spending for children’s services of 5.5 per cent...

One of the South West’s largest law firms is encouraging its staff to start the conversation about mental health following a series of presentations by TEDxExeter speaker Gill Hayes, who survived a suicide attempt in 2013. Stephens Scown LLP is one of the sponsors of TEDxExeter and after seeing Gill’s powerful talk, the firm’s HR Manager for Devon Emily Ottery asked Gill to visit the firm’s three offices in Devon and Cornwall to talk about her experiences. Gill was living in Exeter when she began suffering from severe depression. She attempted suicide in March 2013 and following a long...

The staff from the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has been supporting CLIC Sargent since 2008 raising £23,927.52 for young lives vs cancer through the Pennies from Heaven Scheme.

Over 4000 members of staff from the trust took part in the Pennies from Heaven Scheme, which meant that their wages were rounded down to the nearest pound with the pennies being donated to CLIC Sargent. CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading provider of support for young cancer patients under the age of 25, and their families.

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service...