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Caroline RobinsonSouth WestKate TylerKate Tyler said photo booths had documented her lifeAn artist with a "lifelong, nerdy obsession" with photobooths is celebrating the 100 year anniversary of their existence.Kate Tyler, who lives in Modbury, Devon, uses analogue photo booths to create her artwork.She said she prefers them to digital booths because "there's something really lovely about the quality of those pictures" and getting a "long strip of four pictures".She has also been able to "document all the way…

Chris Jackson/GettyKing Charles takes the salute from newly commissioned naval officersThe King has shared memories of his time in the Navy and trying to avoid becoming "yet another headline" in the tabloids while captaining a ship during a gale.He shared his experiences at Royal Britannia Naval College in Dartmouth more than 50 years after he trained there.Giving a speech to 191 cadets he said his time there prepared him for his naval career, during which he took command…

Caroline RobinsonSouth WestSouth West WaterSWW said Aquarius would spend Christmas snuggled up in his favourite Christmas hatA hedgehog which was rescued from a storm tank during a site investigation has recovered enough to be released in the new year. South West Water (SWW) said colleagues Joe Martin and George Cane discovered the hedgehog, which they named Aquarius, in November after the animal managed to climb the safety railing and get inside the empty tank at Blackawton, near Dartmouth,…

Amateur historians have taken it upon themselves to map and document the locations of the graves in a churchyard.Holy Trinity Church in Buckfastleigh, Devon, burnt down in 1992, taking parish records with it and now members of the Holy Trinity Graveyard Project said they wanted to re-record where people were buried so families and genealogists could find them.Group member Jac Denley-Jones said: "There's hundreds of graves up there and people often come here from Australia, Canada, looking for…