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The employment rate in the South West has increased by a record 2.58 million in three months, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning.

However while unemployment did fall in this three month period, the figures also show that 6,000 more people in the South West are now unemployed since last year meaning the the South West is the only region to record a rise in its unemployment during th whole year period.

Nationally the ONS figures show that the employment rate is now at 72.3%, the highest it has been since the recession began...

50 kW PV system - designed by local renewable energy experts SunGift solar - keeps Devon cheese-maker’s refrigerators cold and bills low.

The Government must review its flooding and coastal defence policies and commit more money to reducing further risks to the British countryside, the NFU said today. The call comes as part of the NFU’s new flooding manifesto which was launched at this morning at the second day of the union’s annual conference in Birmingham. The flooding manifesto calls for the targeted protection of high quality farmland and a reduction of the impact of urban flood defences to rural areas arguing that farming land was being sacrificed as the lowest priority in managing the nation’s floods. Launching the...

Debilitating side effects associated with prescription medication for some of today’s most common conditions could be eradicated if they mimicked the body’s natural hormone secretion cycles, a new report has said.

Scientists from Exeter and Bristol have studied how conventional steroid treatments – commonly used to treat a range of conditions from steroid deficiency to inflammatory diseases such as asthma and arthritis – can have serious side effects due to the way in which they are delivered to the body.

The study concluded that many of these side effects could be...