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Communities across Devon are being called on to nominate their unsung recycling heroes, whose efforts have helped the county become one of the greenest in the UK.

The fourth Recycle Devon Thank You Awards are being held in February and from this week nominations for the eight categories, including those for schools, business, children and community groups, can be submitted.

The awards are organised by the Recycle Devon team, and were first launched to recognise those people who do that bit extra to help ensure Devon remains clean and green.

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Housing charity Shelter has revealed the potentially devastating impact of government plans to freeze housing benefit for private renters, with new research showing just under 36,000 working families in the South West could be affected.

Housing benefit helps families on lower incomes to pay their rent, and is already restricted to cover rents in the cheapest third of privately rented homes. The freeze, which comes into force next April, will see housing benefit frozen at its current level until 2020.

Worryingly, this comes at a time when private rents are climbing,...

Exeter-based Ashwoods Lightfoot, the UK’s leading provider of in-cab driver efficiency systems for commercial van fleet operators, has today announced that it will be launching Lightfoot® to the car fleet sector, providing a proven and cost-effective solution to improving driver behaviour that reduces fuel costs, wear and tear, CO2 and accidents.

Its revolutionary in-cab driver behaviour device has successfully helped van fleet managers cut fuel bills by up to 20% whilst reducing accidents by as much as 60%. Recent trials on car fleets have shown similar benefits.

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The Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership organised a successful sponsored walk on Saturday 10th October to celebrate the reopening of the sea wall for walkers and raise around £1,000 for good causes in Teignmouth and Dawlish.

Teignmouth and Dawlish Ramblers led the 40 walkers who included local councillors, Dawlish and Teignmouth Walk this Way, the Friends of Dawlish and Teignmouth Stations, Dawlish Solidarity for Refugees and a representative of Network Rail’s ‘Orange Army’.

The walkers were welcomed at the Strand Centre in Dawlish by MP Anne Marie Morris, Howard Almond,...