Royal Naval College, Osborne Royal Naval College, Osborne The Royal Naval College, Osborne, was a training college for Royal Navy officer cadets on the Osborne House estate, Isle of Wight, established in 1903 and closed in 1921. Boys were admitted at about the age of thirteen to follow a course lasting for six academic terms before proceeding to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Some formal appointments to the college were to HMS "Racer, a vessel attached to the college, previously the tender to HMS "Britannia". Following the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Osborne House, overlooking the River Medina, where she had spent her
Healthcare in Devon are provided by Devon Doctors. Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group decided in November 2014 that Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust would be its preferred provider of community services. This decision was challenged by Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust which had been providing these services and in February 2015 Monitor (NHS) announced that it would investigate this complaint. Northern Devon said the decision will mean it will have to give up ownership of some of its community hospitals. Ownership of 12 of the trust’s community hospitals will “in all likelihood” transfer to NHS Property Services. The