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A community energy group in mid-Somerset has signed up one of the leading renewable energy legal specialists to advise it on the next stages of its project.

ACE – Avalon Community Energy – will be working with Exeter-based Stephens Scown LLP on its community energy projects. Stephens Scown has the largest dedicated renewable energy team in the South West and works with a number of other community energy groups across the region.

Set up in 2013, ACE is a community owned co-operative that aims to establish renewable energy sources for the Glastonbury, Wells, Street and...

What Group Investments Ltd, the financial advice and distribution group, is building a new sales force that can advise on and sell life assurance and other health-related policies.

It is the latest company looking to attract finance through the equity-crowdfunding platform InvestingZone.

The York-based financial advisory firm says there is a huge opportunity for growth in the direct sales arena since the collapse of many big insurers and their sales forces over the past 30 years.

“In the mid 1980s there were around 350,000 salespeople working for British financial...

The South West has a thriving construction industry with the region predicted to exceed the projected average UK growth rate for 2015 to 2019 according to a recent CITB report.

The regional estimated average output over this period is 3.6%, considerably higher than the UK predicted rate of 2.9%.

It is this prosperous growth and promising future that has prompted the first South West Construction Summit. The Summit aims to bring together key contributors of the regional construction industry and its supply chain to support and underpin the progress already being made. The...

Skipper Dean Mumm insists there is still so much for him and Exeter Chiefs team-mates to go after between now and the end of the season despite seeing their European Challenge Cup hopes end on Saturday night at Kingsholm. The Devon club were denied a second major final appearance this season when Aviva Premiership rivals Gloucester edged them out 30-19 in a hard-fought semi-final encounter. However, the Australian international - who is to leave the Chiefs at the end of the current campaign following three highly successful seasons at Sandy Park - was in defiant mood when addressing the...