National Transplant Week
It's National Transplant Week - a time when the Transplant Service wants us all to discuss with our families what our feelings are about donating organs when we die.
Appeal for more people to sign up as organ donors
It's National Transplant Week, a time when it's hoped more people will sign up to the donor register. Derriford Hospital in Plymouth has one of the highest rates in the country for the number of its altruistic donors - healthy people who donate one of their kidneys to strangers.
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The main weather forecast for the South West
Unsettled with spells of rain and mild temperatures.
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The main weather in the West
Breezy with mild temperatures, but also some showers.
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Man stuck down mine shaft in Cornwall
A rescue operation is underway at Porth Nanven to rescue a man his mid 50s stuck at the bottom of a fifteen metre dry shaft.