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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Mystery whale identified in Cornish waters
A Bowhead whale - almost never seen south of the Arctic - was spotted by a diver just off Par Beach on St Martin's island.
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Dorset's Monkey World welcomes baby orang-utans
Monkey World in Dorset has welcomed a second baby Sumatran orang-utan to the park.
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Mum says son was denied life saving medical equipment
The mother of a Muscular Dystrophy patient says he could have lived longer if he had been given access to vital medical equipment sooner.