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As the UK's weather continues to cause havoc in parts of the country with residents in affected communities dealing with the aftermath of heavy rainfall, Devon County Council has announced a new emergency fund to support communities at risk.

The Devon Emergency Community Flood Resilience Fund will make funds of up to an initial £2,000 available, via Town and Parish Councils or community groups, to Devon communities.

Grants will help communities buy flood resilience equipment such as sand bags, sand stores, tools, and personal protective equipment and emergency road signs...

The UK’s top equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube will be expanding its operations into the North of England with a new office opening in central Manchester in February. Senior business development manager, Adam Gillett, has been appointed to lead the regional team.

Crowdcube has already helped nine businesses in the North West to raise more than £1.4 million in the last two years, including Ideas Britain which recently secured £270k to launch in the UK. Ideas Britain, based in Manchester, aims to help young British entrepreneurs make their ideas come to life. It has built the...

Lidl UK’s decision to locate a major regional distribution centre at a site near Exeter Airport is a huge vote of confidence in the area and will prompt other national retailers to follow in its footsteps, says property advisors JLL.

JLL has an office in Exeter and advised Lidl UK in their purchase, advising on the site options and handling negotiations with the vendor of the selected site, Sainsbury’s.

Tim Western, director at JLL, said: “There has been clever investment into this part of East Devon by the public sector and other development partners, including...

The RSPCA is appealing for information after 14 hamsters found themselves left in the cold outside a block of flats in Exeter at Christmas.

A member of the public was going out shopping on the afternoon of 21 December when they spotted four cages filled with Syrian hamsters on King Street, next to a block of flats.

At first they thought someone must have been moving out and had perched the cages there as a temporary measure, but when they returned several hours later and saw that the cages were still there they realised nobody was coming back for them.

Concerned for...