Guest Blog: Study tips during another lockdown
By Jessica Gregory Maybe you’re a student, already exhausted from numerous online lessons and the unlimited messages from your teachers and classmates. Perhaps, you’re a parent, dreading the thought …
Guest Blogs
Guest Blog: Can secondary school students cope with another lockdown?
By Jessica Gregory The 23rd of March this year brought education a whole new look, with online lessons and an independence students had never had before. Although this brought many positives for som…
Guest Blog: Me and free school meals
This blog is not a political one and not meaning promote any one side or support any sort of political argument, its merely viewpoint of an adult who was once a child who received free school meals. …
Guest Blog: Free school meals
By Jessica Gregory Article 27 on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child claims: “I have the right to have a proper house, food and clothing”. And yet, the majority of MPs voted against extendin…
Guest Blog: 100 mile cycle raising funds for Torbay Brass Band
Torbay Brass Band have lost all bookings until 2021 because of COVID-19 so I am fundraising for them by cycling from Torquay to Redruth. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic Torbay Brass Band (in which I pla…
Guest Blog: Self Care – Lesson’s I’ve Learned in 2020 So Far
The Best Self Care Tips for 2020 & Lessons I Have Learned Hello 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 s…
Guest Blog: How Therapeutic Art Saved a Life
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…
Guest Blog: The 400th Anniversary of the Plymouth Pilgrims in Mayflower
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…
Guest Blog: Overcoming Drug Addiction – My Story
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.…
Guest Blog: Dealing with Grief & Loss
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…
Guest Blog: Help us keep our family together
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…
Guest Blog: Bell Ringing For Brexit – A Terrible Idea
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 …
Guest Blog: How I wrote my first Children’s book
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 …
Guest Blog: Emotional Politics
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…