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Community Living Abroad: How UK Families Are Building New Lives in Portugal

If you spend time speaking to UK families who have moved abroad in recent years, Portugal comes up repeatedly. It is no longer seen only as a holiday destination or a retirement location. It has become a long-term lifestyle choice for working families, remote professionals, and early retirees looking for a different daily rhythm.

Across Lisbon, the Algarve, the Silver Coast and Madeira, new communities are forming that feel increasingly international while still connected to Portuguese culture. What stands out is not just climate or coastline, but how everyday life feels more...

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Police appeal for information after serious assault in Totnes

Police in Totnes have appealed for information following a serious and unprovoked assault in the town. The incident took place between 2030 hours and midnight on Friday, 12 October at the upper end of the High Street in an area close to Cistern Street. After leaving a nearby pub for a cigarette, a 26-year-old man was alledgedly pushed to the floor and then repeatedly kicked in the face and body. The victim sustained facial and head injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment. It is believed that one of the offenders was wearing a white/grey top and the victim was wearing a...
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"Green is Working" say Deborah Meaden and leading charities

As energy tariffs hit front page news, TV Dragon Deborah Meaden and around 250 representatives from renewable energy companies, trade associations, environment and development charities, the National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI) and faith groups lined up outside the Treasury in a united call on David Cameron to step in, green our electricity, and get all parts of his Government to start taking the green economy seriously.

The action took place on the morning Energy Secretary Ed Davey delivered a 'myth busting' speech about the forthcoming Energy Bill at an event hosted...

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Protests outside the newly opened Marie Stopes abortion clinic

Eyewitnesses report more than 200 people currently protesting outside the newly-opened Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The clinic is the first in Northern Ireland offering the legal termination of pregnancies.

The protesters at the clinic are from a range of religious denominations and are reportedly holding up placards with images of aborted foetuses.

The Marie Stopes clinic has said it will carry out medical, not surgical, procedures only up to nine weeks gestation and only within the existing legal framework. In Northern Ireland...

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Great British Bake Off gets highest ever rating episode on BBC Two

The final episode of series three of Great British Bake Off last night had an average of 6.5 million viewers, 25.3% share, with a peak of 7.2 million viewers seeing law student John Whaite crowned as the Bake Off winner.

Janice Hadlow, Controller of BBC Two, says: “I’m absolutely thrilled by the phenomenal success of Great British Bake Off – all the ingredients of record ratings, a worthy winner, the expertise of Mary and Paul, wonderful presenters Mel and Sue and a brilliant series put together by Love productions plus of course all those irresistible cakes have come together to...

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Debate on TB to take place next week in Parliament

News that parliament will be given chance to debate the government’s TB eradication programme and the inclusion of badger controls has been welcomed by the NFU.

The debate, which has been triggered by a public e-petition asking for further discussions on the current government policy to eradicate bovine TB, will take place on Thursday 25th October 2012.

NFU President Peter Kendall said that the parliamentary debate offers a fresh opportunity for the science to be fully explained and for any...

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Agriculture Wages Board outdated says the NFU

Abolishing the Agriculture Wages Board (AWB) fits with a modern, forward-thinking farming industry that will deliver for the future said the NFU today as it prepares to respond to a government consultation – part of the process of abolishing the AWB.

The average farm worker earns 41 per cent more than the industry minimum set by the AWB and with few farm workers currently receiving only the AWB minimum wage, the NFU says modern employment legislation has left the board behind.

NFU Deputy President...

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Free Landlord Expo, Plymouth Guildhall, 25 October

Since April 2009 Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service have attended domestic fire incidents causing eight fatalities within the West Devon area. In fact, in the same time period there have been 694 domestic fires in Plymouth, causing not only injury to 50 people, but also immeasurable suffering and disruption to people’s family and personal life.

The biggest cause of these accidental fires is cooking related. For the period from April 2009 until March 2011, 54% of Plymouth’s domestic fires were cooking related. Of these only 8% were attributed to faulty cooking...

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Green clouds appear over Salford

On Monday afternoon a mysterious green gas cloud appeared in Cadishead, Salford, prompting passers-by to become quite concerned.

Manchester Fire Service confirmed that crews from Irlam and Eccles fire stations were called to a waste disposal site in Cadishead at 1.53pm on Monday, 15th October, following several sightings of a green smoke cloud, which were reported to Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service's (GMFRS) control room.

The blaze was quickly extinguished by staff at Lanstar in Liverpool Road who used soda ash to neutralise the chemicals.

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LGA warns of pitfalls in relaxing planning rules

Thousands of home extensions, which were previously blocked because they were unsightly, out of character with a local area or invaded neighbours' privacy, may now go ahead unimpeded under plans to extend permitted development rights, the Local Government Association (LGA) warns.

The LGA is also concerned that extensions which would previously have been improved through the planning process in order to make them acceptable to neighbours and reduce their negative impact on local amenities will in future go ahead unaltered, resulting in inappropriate development and...

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Fatal fire claims four lives in Harlow, Essex

Police and the fire service are investigating the cause of a fatal fire in Harlow that has left four people dead and two at hospital, one critical.

The fire service was called at around 1.40am Monday, 15th October to a fire at a house in Barn Mead, Harlow. They brought the occupants out of the premises and emergency service personnel gave immediate emergency treatment.

Sadly, a woman and three young children have died.

The cause of the fire is under investigation and detectives are looking at the circumstances leading up to the fire.

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