Devon residents are being encouraged to apply for a grant that will help them get central heating installed in their homes.
It may still be the summer months but people are urged to apply before the scheme closes at the end of August.
The CosyDevon Central Heating Fund is supported by the Devon local authorities including Teignbridge and is managed by their scheme partners E.ON, AgilityEco, National Energy Action (NEA) and Integrated Energy Services.
It offers eligible residents a new connection to the gas grid, a complete gas central heating system including a new...
Teignbridge residents can learn more about ‘The Teignbridge 10 super projects’ and how the council will meet the needs of the district over the next 10 years.
Teignbridge is taking its new Council Strategy on the road so communities can find out more.
The Council Strategy is Teignbridge’s new 10-year strategy that replaces the Council Plan 2011-15. It sets the tone for how Teignbridge works, its vision, goals and how these will be achieved. It’s important because it helps target services effectively to meet local needs and shows how Teignbridge’s work benefits local people...
Leading South West firm of Chartered Accountants Thomas Westcott held a special celebration event to launch its merger with Parkhurst Hill in Plymouth.
The champagne reception saw senior partner of Parkhurst Hill, Paul Stapleton, welcome over 60 professional contacts including solicitors, banking executives and others to the firm's offices at Marsh Mills, Plymouth. Paul thanked them for their loyal support to Parkhurst Hill's clients throughout its very long and successful period of practicing.
Richard Thomas, chairman of Thomas Westcott, said: "Whilst we have had a...
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...
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....
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...
