A STUDENT from Belstone who did much of her training at veterinary practices in the area has received her degree.

Katherine Manchip recently graduated from Bristol University with a veterinary medicine degree, having also done an inter-collated degree in veterinary conservation medicine at Liverpool University for a year.

Katherine did a lot of her clinical training at North Tawton Veterinary Practice and Okeford Veterinary Practice in Okehampton. She has now started working at the Medivet branch in Kingsbury.