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1 month ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Emma Ruminski |George Thorpe
Image caption, Joy Saunders - wearing the red top - still teaches tap dancing every week in PenzanceA 95-year-old tap dancing teacher who dances every day says she "can't seem to give it up". Joy Saunders, who celebrated her birthday on 19 May, has been tap dancing since she was eight years old and still teaches a class at Penzance YMCA each week.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Marcus White |Emma Ruminski
Image caption, A fossilised mammoth is valued at more than £200,000Marcus White & Emma RuminskiAn offbeat collection of prehistoric remains, taxidermy animals and artworks is being sold by the owner of a stately home following a notorious fire. Grade I listed Parnham House, near Beaminster, Dorset, was gutted in a suspected arson attack in 2017. Dreweatts Auctioneers said the sale on 13 May could raise about £1.3m.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
bbc.com | Jonathan Morris |Emma Ruminski
Seaside sewage campaign urges more people to joinJonathan Morris & Emma RuminskiBBCFanchea Catton (right) speaks to people on the esplanadeCampaigners planning legal action against a water firm over sewage pollution at a Devon beach have been urging visitors and locals to join in. The Exmouth campaigners have been on the town's esplanade explaining what sewage discharges have meant for the environment, swimmers health and local businesses.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
bbc.com | Emma Ruminski
Charities in Devon and Cornwall find it harder to recycle the excess clothes they cannot sell.
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May 22, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Emma Ruminski |Marcus White
A book that once belonged to 19th Century fossil hunter Mary Anning and was later stolen from a museum has been returned on her birthday. The scientific work disappeared from Lyme Regis Museum in Dorset more than 40 years ago. Geology curator Dr Paul Davis found it by chance at a museum in Australia when he spotted it on social media. The book arrived back in the UK on Tuesday, the date of the pioneering fossil collector's birth in 1799.
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May 9, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Emma Ruminski
Image caption, Louise Scammell said her interest in the sea "has a constant throughout my life"A freediver from Devon is showing her underwater-inspired artwork in a new exhibition. Louise Scammell, South Brent, said she sketched the wildlife she saw on waterproof paper while holding her breath under the sea. Once on dry land, she creates prints from the sketches. Her work is on display as part of the Delamore Arts exhibition throughout May at Delamore House in Cornwood, near Ivybridge.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
bbc.co.uk | Emma Ruminski
A former Royal Navy officer is trying to trace some of the 1,700 former land girls who farmed in Devon during and after World War Two. Becks Pearson, from Lympstone, began recording the stories of the ladies who served in the Women's Land Army when she realised no-one else had done it. Land girls was the name given to women who worked on the land while men were away fighting during World War Two. Many of the women Ms Pearson has tracked down are now in their late-90s.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Emma Ruminski
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
bbc.co.uk | Emma Ruminski |Lisa Young
Bosses of a theatre workshop say they are struggling to find staff to construct scenery and sets because of a skills shortage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. People with the right skills moved to other jobs after the lockdowns, said Brendan Cusack, head of Theatre Royal Plymouth's TR2 workshop. He said many people have moved into film, TV and the building trade. TR2 employs 25 people to design and build sets for theatres globally.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
exbulletin.com | Emma Ruminski |Georgina L. Barnes
Ed Larkin was nominated for Outstanding Performer in a Musical Category for the What's On Stage awards. A Devon actor has been nominated for a prestigious acting award following his West End debut. Ed Larkin, 25, from Bere Alston, has been nominated in the Best Performer in a Music Category for the What's On Stage awards. Her starring role in The Little Big Things at Soho Place Theater was her first in a West End musical.
