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A creative-minded marketer can not only help push you to think ‘outside the box’, but they are often the type of candidate that will naturally have a keen eye for detail and, potentially, some impressive creative design skills.

Having creative minds within your marketing team can be a real bonus for any company, regardless as to whether your company works within a creative industry or not.

Marketing professionals often have a range of creative attributes but how can you target your marketing recruitment to attract the most creative candidates possible?

Without...

Community groups in Devon and Cornwall have got just over a week to apply for a share in a £200,000 cashpot. Applications for the first round of the small grants scheme, which aims to help small community groups which work to reduce crime and make people feel safer, must be submitted by 31 October. Already over 60 applications have been received for grants up to £5,000 for projects. In my Police and Crime Plan I promised to find new ways to help organisations to help themselves and I am encouraged by the early response from groups looking for grass-roots funding, I urge anyone who is...

This week we saw the publication of the three-monthly crime figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). As police and crime commissioner it is inevitable that the media will want me to comment in simple sound bites - is this good news or bad news news - so I thought I would clarify why I have been guarded in some of the interviews I have carried out this week. ONS figures are, and always have been, released three or four months in arrears - in this case to the end of June 2013, whereas, day to day, myself and the chief constable are dealing with up to the minute statistics about...

We are looking for public support to build a fossil-free environment in Devon.

Where the air is clean and there is no pollution.

A green clean environment with clean energy that is free, mobile phones that never need to be plugged in ever again, Windows that create free energy for life. Houses built that are totally self sufficient from the national grid.

Vehicles that are a true hybrid that will run on solar and methane gas creating zero emissions into the air we breath.

A world where you can use your own bio-degradable waste and whereby creating free...