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Oxygen Conservation and Burges Salmon seal £1 million partnership for 8,000 UK-based premium quality carbon credits

Leading natural capital asset manager Oxygen Conservation and independent UK law firm Burges Salmon have announced the signing of a landmark partnership valued at up to £1 million . As part of the agreement, Burges Salmon will be the exclusive buyer of up to 8,000 premium-quality, UK-based carbon credits which will be provided at £125 per tonne .

Funding one of the UK’s most ambitious nature restoration projects on the beautiful Leighon Estate in Dartmoor, Devon , the partnership demonstrates an important shift in how the voluntary carbon market operates - moving from...

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The Devolution Revolution: Why Devon should embrace its potential

By Jon Roberts, regional lead partner for Grant Thornton’s public sector team in the South West

It has now become clear that the Government is very serious about devolution and wants to see more powers handed to the regions over the course of the current Parliament.

And, according to research by Grant Thornton, business leaders across the country are very much in favour of George Osborne’s so-called “devolution revolution”, with 95 per cent believing that devolving powers from Whitehall would bring real economic gains to places such as the South West.

There is no...

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Toby's Garden Festival set for lift off

Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival returns to Powderham Castle with some of the country’s best plant specialists, gardening stars and plenty of delicious local food, craft, live music and fun.

Gardens come in all sizes and whether you have an acre or a window box, a bare square of earth or a shady spot, you can grow a beautiful garden. Let your creativity take root at Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle and soak up inspiration from amazing and colourful nurseries, demonstrations and gardening experts. Nowhere else in the South West can you find such diversity of...

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Firm's foundations for success laid in Exeter

A national homebuilder is continuing to lay foundations for success in the South West with continued growth, and commitment to a long-term apprenticeship scheme. With regional offices already in the Midlands and the South East, Bovis Homes opened its Exeter office in 2013 with just six members of staff. Now, with more than 100 staff based in Exeter and its surrounding developments in locations like Cranbrook, Ottery St Mary, Dawlish and Teignmouth, the national homebuilder is expanding its apprenticeship scheme, firmly concreting its position in the South West with the promise of...

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Brexit fears fail to slow international commercial investment in South West

International businesses are postponing investment in Britain in the wake of EU uncertainty a new paper by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has revealed.

The RICS EU Referendum Paper which examines the pros and cons of the UK remaining and exiting Europe includes new survey data showing that there has been a steady easing in international demand for UK office, industrial and retail property since the referendum was confirmed in Q2 2015. However, the demand indicator among international investors for South West commercial property shows 17 per cent more members...

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New class for cakes made of cheese at County Show

The trend for wedding cakes made of cheese is being reflected in a new class at this year’s Devon County Show held on May 19-21 at Westpoint, Exeter.

Cheesemakers are being challenged to create and decorate a three or five tier cake.

Award-winning Devon cheesemaker Mary Quicke MBE, who is managing director of Quickes Traditional and Devon County Agricultural Association Chairman of Council, is very supportive of this new class.

“We want to add a new dimension to our dairy produce competitions and reflect changing tastes,” she said.

“A wedding cake has to be...

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Economic not-so-well-being!

Leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, has released further results from its second economic well-being survey.

The results show that women and people aged 16-30 years of age have the lowest level of economic well-being.

The initial results of the survey, run in partnership with the Express and Echo, Radio Exe, Exeter City Council and Exeter Chamber of Commerce, are available from the charity’s website – www.citizensadviceexeter.org.uk

Citizens Advice Exeter Chief Executive Steve Barriball said: “We have now completed some further analysis and found...

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Man dies after car overturns in East Devon

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 04/27/2016 - 3:36pm

A man has died after his car left the road and overturned in a field at Honiton this morning [27 April].

Emergency services were called at 8am after his vehicle was found in a field off the old A30 near to the showground at Fenny Bridges.

The driver, thought to be aged 50 and from Torquay, sustained serious injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene. His next of kin has been informed and police await formal identification.

The old A30 [B3177] was closed along with one lane of the main A30 while officers from the Serious Collisions Investigation Unit carried...

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Parishes Together panel approves community scheme applications

East Devon District Council and Devon County Council funding pot helps communities to help themselves

A panel of councillors from East Devon District Council and Devon County Council has approved applications for 34 different community schemes, which are now receiving funding from the Parishes Together Fund for the financial year 2015/2016. A total of over £110,000 of funding has been allocated.

Designed to provide financial solutions to local issues, the Parishes Together Fund is a joint East Devon District Council and Devon County Council initiative in which the sum of £1...

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Grants for Exeter mobile home owners

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 04/27/2016 - 12:23pm

People living in mobile homes in Exeter are being given the chance to apply for grants to make energy improvements in their homes.

Exeter City Council is working in partnership with Wessex Energy to provide grants of £2,000 to qualifying Exeter mobile or park home owners. If the cost of works exceeds £2,000, applicants are able to apply to Wessex Resolutions CIC, a not for profit lender, for a loan to make up the difference.

For more information go to www.wessex.energy/

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Exeter researchers in celebrity-endorsed research to save swans

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 04/27/2016 - 11:17am

Researchers at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus are involved in a pioneering project to safeguard Europe’s smallest swan, which has won support from Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Pen Hadow and Sir David Attenborough and a swathe of businesses, charities and individuals.

Flight of the Swans will be the first ever attempt to follow the migration of the Bewick’s swan from the air. Setting off this September, Sacha Dench of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) will fly a paramotor from the Bewick’s swans’ breeding grounds in arctic Russia 7,500km across 11 countries...

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