Generous Ashfords' people have beaten their charity fund raising target for their chosen charity, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust.
Staff and partners of the firm pulled out all the stops with fundraising and awareness raising event for Jo's Trust, the only UK charity dedicated to women and their families affected by cervical cancer and cervical abnormalities.
Paignton Zoo has turned to a local company to help with a weighty matter.
Keepers wanted to install a set of scales in the den of their Western lowland gorillas. But, as Senior Head Keeper of Mammals Matthew Webb explained, not just any scales would do:
“You can’t use normal scales with gorillas, because they will play with them - which usually means they will break them! We...
A long line of colourful ants is marching through Paignton Zoo.
The 8-inch insects form a trail that will lead from the Zoo’s entrance building all the way to the new invertebrate house, a distance of over 300 metres.
The invaders are pictures which are being coloured in and hung up. The Amazing Ant Trail will guide visitors to the new Investigate exhibit, which is due to open...
With the fast pace of modern day life and many of us working shift patterns sometimes you can find yourself doing a spring clean in the middle of the evening only to be left with the problem of what to do with the items that are in great condition but you no longer need.
Now no matter what time of the day, St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth are now giving supporters the chance to donate 24/7...
Wildlife charity volunteers have given more hours than ever before.
Volunteers at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park and Living Coasts in Torquay gave more than 26,000 hours during 2013 - equivalent to nearly 3 whole years, 155 weeks or more than 1,000 full days.
For the year ending in October 2013, 166 volunteers gave 26,074.5 hours – 1,932.25 more than in 2012.
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park is celebrating a second orang utan birth in 9 months.
Bornean orang utan Chinta gave birth on Sunday 22 December.
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park Director of Operations and Curator of Mammals Neil Bemment said: “You wait 16 years and then two babies come along in nine months!” One of the Zoo’s other females, Mali, gave birth to a female baby...
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Thanks to the revolutionary and rapidly-expanding ethical finance one-stop-shop charity, Care2Save.co.uk, shoppers can now buy online with...
UK Stroke Forum have revealed that compounds found in cannabis could be beneficial to stroke victims. It has been suggested, after research was conducted at the University of Nottingham, that chemical comounds found in cannabis may help to reduce brain damage following a stroke. The findings showed that the compounds could reduce the size of a stroke and improve neurological function.
St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth are calling on local men to sign up for their brand new event, Men’s Day Out on Saturday 1 February 2014 at Plymouth Albion RFU.
The event promises to be a fantastic day out raising money for the local charity on an eight mile sponsored walk across Plymouth City Centre and the South West Coastal Path. Afterwards fundraisers will be treated as VIPs at Plymouth...
