Business Daily

Exeter-based Capital Air Ambulance (Capital), the aeromedical brand of Rigby Group’s aviation division and the UK’s No 1 provider of fixed wing air ambulance services, has unveiled an ambitious strategy for expansion across the European market.

Capital has in recent months taken advantage of marketplace changes to establish itself as Britain’s largest Air Ambulance operator and is operating from a second UK base in the Midlands, with an enlarged fleet and crew offering an expanded range of services including long haul medical repatriation flights across Europe, the Middle East and...

As dairy prices start to rally after a slump which has seen the number of dairy farmers in Britain halve in a decade and the milk price tumble by more than a third in the last 18 months, NFU South West dairy board chairman Andrew Branton is challenging milk processors to ensure that increased returns are passed along to farmers quickly, to ensure as many as possible stay in business.

Cheshire-based Meadow Foods have announced a farm gate milk price increase that will add one penny to the price paid to farmers in July and another in August. Somerset-based Wyke Farms is set to follow...

An Exeter library is one of the selected locations to be a part of BT and Barclay’s innovative community based programme.

In March 2015 BT and Barclay’s joined together to promote a scheme in which 100 libraries around the UK will receive free WI-FI.

BT found 80 percent of people in the south west rely on the internet for local community involvement, and Exeter’s Pinhoe Library is to receive free WI-FI to boost this.

36 percent of people in the south west said they use free WI-FI to access local information, and empowers them to gain new experiences when finding out...

Plans to give rail passengers along the South Western network more trains, more space and faster journeys were today (4 July) announced by Rail Minister Claire Perry. The Department for Transport has published documents setting out how bidders for the new South Western franchise will be required to provide plans for:

• At least 95 additional services on weekdays from December 2018.
• A doubling of services along the London Waterloo to Reading and Waterloo to Windsor & Eton Riverside routes from two to four trains an hour.
• Earlier first trains and later
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