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Dining across the divide: ‘Universities should be free. We all lose for every bright kid who doesn’t go’

Two south-westerners shared a love of boats, but how would they fare on tuition fees and NHS funding?

The Guardian - UK · Feb 22

Dining across the divide: ‘He said you need strong leaders. Then he referenced Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage’

The retired engineer and NHS worker chewed over social housing and strong leaders. Could they find common ground on Covid?

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025

‘Odd’ Hinkley Point C salt marsh plan has Somerset locals up in arms

Anger at EDF proposals to flood wildlife-rich farmland as ‘compensation’ for killing millions of fish at nuclear site

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2024

Cornish Lithium secures £53.6m to open first mine for the metal in Britain

UK Infrastructure Bank leads funding of project to extract compounds used for electric vehicle batteries

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2023

A new start after 60: ‘I became a powerlifter at 71 – and I’ve never felt so good about myself’

Peeps Nicol was newly widowed, ‘really unfit’, and struggling with MS when she first visited her local gym last year. Now she can deadlift 55kg and has begun competing

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2023

‘I’d like to see more black surfers’: the UK student turning the tide on diversity in surfing

While studying for his GCSEs, Siyanda Hewitt, 16, has become the first UK-based black professional junior surfer

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2023

‘Amazing but absurd’: how worm-charming is drawing Cornish art back to its roots

Among artist Georgia Gendall’s projects is a riotous annual competition to lure these creatures from the soil – hopefully shifting some local cliches with them

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2023

‘Part of you dies as well’: the toll of caring for loved ones with dementia

A new drug could slow the pace of Alzheimer’s. Three people with experience of the disease explain their story and their hopes

The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2023

‘Who’d have thought it?’: north Devon named UK’s first world surfing reserve

Eighteen miles of coastline win formal protection, joining 11 sites globally including Malibu and Santa Cruz

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2023

Not just about the trees: Labour hopeful on the doorsteps in Plymouth

Council candidates say voters are raising national issues such as cost of living ahead of this week’s elections

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023