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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Tonight's weather for the South West with Bob Crampton
Expect scattered showers tonight. Tomorrow will be similar to today, except there'll be fewer showers. Sunny between the rain. Feeling fresh
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Scattered showers tonight - less of them tomorrow
Tomorrow will be very similar to today except there'll be fewer showers. It will be sunny between the rainy outbreaks. Feeling fresh.
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Fake bomb detector seller to serve longer sentence
Jailed Somerset fraudster James McCormick has been penalised for failing to forfeit cash and assets worth nearly £8m