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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Owner and very muddy dog rescued at Uphill
Burnham's rescue hovercraft flew out to a dog walker and Springer after reports of the owner attempting to save the pet from thick mud.
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Good Samaritan has phone stolen while rescuing man
A 56-year-old man who jumped into the river alongside a policeman to save a man returned to his belonging to find his phone had been stolen.
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Entire teaching staff leaves Bristol Primary School
Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School in Kingswood is losing all its teachers this term following a turbulent period in the school's history.