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Welcome Back to Local Banking in Barnstaple, Exeter, Exmouth, Ford, Okehampton, Plymouth, Torquay and Tavistock.

The new TSB Bank which has launched today – with more than 4.6 million customers and over £20 billion of loans and customer deposits – is one of the biggest changes ever seen in UK banking as ‘local banking’ is brought back to Britain. There are ten branches in Devon which will all be welcoming TSB back to the high street.

Never before has a new bank launched with a nationwide network of 631 branches, four call centres, an award-winning internet bank, mobile...

Sir Terry Wogan, Matt Baker, Gary Barlow, Nick Grimshaw, Alex Jones, JLS and Union J have joined forces to kick start this year’s BBC Children in Need campaign.

They are calling on the Great British public to once again get fundraising to help raise millions for disadvantaged children and young people right here in the UK.

There are a number of fun ways people can get fundraising for the charity as demonstrated by Pudsey’s celebrity pals. Union J and Alex Jones are leading the fundraising charge by asking people to ditch their usual 9 to 5 work clothes and wear their PJs...

The Government's Universal Credit reform was "overly ambitious", "took risks to try to meet the short timescale" and "suffered from weak management". So concludes a report by the financial watchdog, the National Audit Office into the implementation of one of the Coalition's high profile welfare reform policies.

The National Audit Office has concluded that the Department for Work and Pensions has not achieved value for money in its early implementation of Universal Credit. It says that the Department is not yet able to assess the value of the systems it spent over £300 million to...

Devon and Cornwall Police are investigating an alleged fraud surrounding the sale of tickets for Tomorrowland 2013 – an electronic music festival held in Belgium. Two women aged 50 and 21 from Tavistock have been arrested on suspicion of fraud by misrepresentation and are currently on police bail until February 2014. Enquiries are still ongoing at this time and due to the complexity of the case, the investigation is expected to take several months before all enquiries have come to a conclusion. DC Glenn Harrop, the officer leading the investigation said: “We believe there are potentially...