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Organisers of a children’s art competition have been amazed after hundreds of entries were sent in.

Pensioners Peter and Marlene Turner have been placed on a national Happy List for all their dedication to local children.

Olympic athletes from Ghana will be staying at a Plymouth college to train before the London 2012 Olympics.

Plymouth has been named as the city to host Armed Forces Day in 2012.

Public toilets are hitting the headlines in Plymouth with one winning a top award and another being given a major facelift. Toilets in the Drake Circus shopping centre have won the gold star standard in the Loo of the Year Awards for the fifth year in a row.

An animal sanctuary is looking for homes for a large number of guinea pigs after some accidental pregnancies at the centre. The Woodside Animal Sanctuary, in Elfordleigh, has got 35 guinea pigs in need of a new home after a group of 12 were taken in and began breeding after being mis-sexed.

Jobseekers over the age of 50 are being given a helping hand with a new service just for them. The Get SET 50 project has been launched in libraries across the Plymouth area to give people a bit of extra help getting back into work.

Olympic hopeful Antony James has been able to take a year off from his studies to train thanks to a new bursary from Plymouth University. The swimmer, who is also a student at the university, is the first person to receive the special bursary of £1,500, set up as part of the university’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

A running group that includes paramedics, a firefighter and a nurse has worked hard to raise £1,500 for children’s cancer charity CLIC by running the Plymouth Half Marathon.

Lee Duke, a Plymouth entrepreneur who founded the waste-to-energy business Chasing Paper Ltd, has managed to secure a £100,000 investment which he is planning to use to create 40 apprenticeships.