The Best Self Care Tips for 2020 & Lessons I Have LearnedHello again! After all the stress I have endured getting essays finished and in on time, I now have the chance to sit back, reflect and sha…
Matt O’Halloran, born and bred in Torquay is now a 27-yeard-old professional illustrator, exhibiting his work across varying cities across the UK and successfully working on private and commercial com…
Abbie Hoskin is an English & History Student at the University of Plymouth. Today, she invites us to read a short piece she has penned to commemorate the Plymouth Pilgrims in Mayflower whom in whi…
Allow me to introduce myself properly, my name is Gemm and if you’ve been following We Are South Devon for a while, you may remember that I used to write News Articles from time to time when I was 16.…
Katie McCooey-Hall is a 19 year old adolescent who, originally from Brixham, has recently come to the University of Plymouth to study Single Honours English. She wrote this piece to help anybody who i…
Becoming a new mother is arguably one of the most beautiful, but stressful things in which a young woman can go through. The waking at 4am for a feed, the stress of keeping baby warm and safe, underst…
The time is nearly upon us: The 31st of January will be the day the UK departs from the European Union. It has been a long and difficult road getting here, and one might reasonably think that this is …
My name is David Pearson, I’m 62 retired Electrical Wholesaler, I live in Torquay.I first came down to the Southwest to take over as Group Manager for City Electrical Factors, employing more that 100 …
Once, when I was a teenager delivering newspapers in Dartmouth, a woman whose paper I delivered invited me into her house and offered me paid employment: Would I deliver a bundle of leaflets for her p…
For a while there, it looked as though Brexit might actually be done and dusted. Boris Johnson’s deal was agreed on by Parliament – in principal, at least – and an optimist might have concluded that i…
On a chilly Saturday in mid-October, I walked into town to visit the Dartmouth Food Festival. The town was packed with people. I walked past stalls selling venison, seafood, flavoured vodka, and a who…
Everywhere I go, I see people behaving decently towards one another. Maybe this is one of the perks of living in a relatively small rural/coastal community, and this prevents me from saying with any c…
What a week we have had!! From virtually pulling the plug on thew whole show, to being on BBC South West Spotlight news! We have had an action packed couple of weeks from the BBC crew coming to fil…
Professional photography? Or just for fun? Happy having your photo taken? Or hate it? It’s fair to say cameras are everywhere today, most of us have one with us all the time and at some point, we do …