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Master Florists Julie Collins and Tina Parkes of award-winning British Floral Academy of Art, launches a special festive fundraising campaign to help save England’s most threatened species from extinction. The internationally renowned duo who offer professional floristry training and flower-arranging courses suitable from beginners to masters, have created an online professional Christmas floristry course to help you dress your home in style in aid of ‘The Back from the Brink’ project.

Back from the Brink is one of the most ambitious conservation projects ever undertaken. It is...

Following a surge in demand for its services, DCW, a leading independent commercial waste management firm, has invested £456,000 in three new state-of-the-art, environmentally efficient vehicles.

Two of the vehicles are Euro 6 Scania mobile compaction trucks, the lowest emission vehicles available, and are fitted with CCTV as well a cyclist protection and the very latest bin weighing technology. The third, a Mercedes 32 tonne hook-lift truck, is also a low emission vehicle and supports DCW’s growing skip operation.

DCW will add the new high specification vehicles to its...

South West Women in Construction (SWWIC) and its chair, Glayne Price were the recipients of the prestigious John Laurence Special Contribution award at the 18th Michelmores Property Awards held virtually on 12 November. The Awards celebrate the very best South West property and construction schemes, as well as the teams involved in them. The John Laurence Special Contribution Award is given to an individual or organisation in recognition of their outstanding work for and influence on the industry. This year, the judges felt that the Award should be given to not one, but two recipients, in...

Self Assessment customers should be alert to criminals claiming to be from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

As the department issues thousands of SMS messages and emails as part of its annual Self Assessment tax return push, HMRC is warning customers completing their returns to take care to avoid being caught out by scammers. The annual tax return deadline is on 31 January 2021.

The department knows that fraudsters use calls, emails or texts to contact customers. In the last 12 months, HMRC has responded to more than 846,000 referrals of suspicious HMRC contact from the...