On 22nd July, Folk2Folk, a leading Peer-to-Peer lender based in Launceston, celebrated their move into a new head office with a summer party attended by MP for North Cornwall, Scott Mann, the Mayor of Launceston, Brian Hogan, and many leading local business owners from across the South West. Folk2Folk have moved in to their new national headquarters, Number One, to help accommodate their rapidly expanding business which has enjoyed great success since launching in 2013. Folk2Folk have a number of offices across the South West and is rolling out further branches in market-towns across the...
Three potential route options to improve the first section of the A30/A303 between Honiton and Ilminster have been unveiled by Devon County Council as it launches a two month public consultation this week (Wednesday 3 August).
Devon County Council is promoting and developing the A30 Honiton to Devonshire Inn section to a preferred route stage with the aim of securing funding through the Government’s Road Investment Strategy, which outlines investment in the strategic road network.
Highways England is currently developing improvements to the A358 and the A303 east of...
Teignbridge District Council’s Recycling Together Rewards scheme has proven a success after encouraging local community groups and neighbourhoods to recycle more food waste.
Across the district, community groups have been encouraging local residents to sign-up and make a commitment to recycle food waste instead of using their black bin for disposal. The scheme has been hailed a great success, with a total of 48 community groups and nearly 600 residents signing-up to the initiative.
Each month bins of registered residents were randomly checked and if no food waste was found...
Visitors to this year’s Honiton Show on August 4 could win a prize by estimating the value of an item to be sold at auction in September.
On display at the Chilcotts Auctioneers’ stand, number 28 in Avenue A, will be an antique miniature chest.
Visitors to the stand are invited to take a guess at the price the item will sell for when it goes up for auction at the Chilcotts September 10 ‘Fine Art, Antiques and Collectors’ Items’ sale at the Silver Street Sale Room.
To make a guess, visitors are asked to give one pound and the proceeds will be donated to Hospiscare,...
As part of the Summer Reading Challenge, Exeter Library invites parents and children to meet Emer Stamp, author of sensational children’s book “The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig’ on Wednesday 10th August from 11am – 12noon.
Emer will be talking about creative writing and the main characters from her books as well as holding a 'How to draw' session where children can learn how to draw four of the main characters – not to be missed!
Emer Stamp grew up on a farm in Devon before training in graphic design and becoming the Creative Director for the advertising agency...
Police were called by the ambulance service shortly after 4am on Saturday 30th July 2016 with a report that a 24 year old male pedestrian had been in collision with a white Peugeot van on the A380.
The incident happened 1km south of the Penn Inn roundabout on the Torquay bound lane of the dual carriageway.
The pedestrian lives outside the force area. The driver of the van is 49 and from Dawlish.
The van was travelling towards Torquay and it appears that the pedestrian was crossing the carriageway towards the central reservation when he was struck by the vehicle....
Following the latest news that we are set for another round of cheap mortgages, with rates at some banks now as low as 0.99% , it is as good a time as any to take out a mortgage in order to get on the property ladder.
However, while mortgages may be cheap, house prices most certainly aren’t, with the average house price in Exeter and wider England now up to a staggering £300,000. In Exeter alone, house prices have risen by 159% since the turn of the millennium, while wages have only increased by 51% . According to property experts the Open Property Group , the recent ‘Brexit’ vote...
With the expensive winter housing period for dairy cows getting ever closer, South West farmers’ leaders have underlined how important it is that increased market returns for milk processors are quickly passed back to farm businesses.
A 10 per cent decline in milk production over recent months combined with favourable exchange rates – making imports more expensive – and increasing spot prices for milk should all mean increased returns for processors, which must be passed on to dairy farmers who can ill afford to wait.
Andrew Branton, chairman of the NFU’s South West dairy...
Over 174,675 businesses based in the South West1 must automatically enrol eligible employees into a workplace pension scheme before 1 April 2017, including businesses employing only one or two people.
Automatic enrolment can be complex and small businesses can be stretched - often with little experience of running a pension scheme, so the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has created Pension Solution to help small businesses through the automatic enrolment process.
Commenting, Laura Webb, Head of Membership Relations, Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association...
