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Fifty Devon businesses have the chance to join trading standard’s Made in Devon scheme with their first year of membership free.

Consumers need to be confident that they are buying genuinely Devon sourced products, which in turn is a selling point and source of pride for businesses.

Scheme membership will enable businesses to demonstrate that any claims made about a product’s Devon origins have been checked, vetted and verified by officers from Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards.

The scheme is an extension to Buy With Confidence, a trading standards...

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...