More than 1,800 trees were planted across Devon during March through two initiatives offered by Devon County Council. The County Council, in association with the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity The Woodland Trust , offered a limited number of packs of sapling trees via the Devon Ash Dieback Resilience Forum website . Landowners from 40 sites across the county took up the offer to...
Almost 200 Ash dieback infected trees in Mid Devon will be felled later this month (March).
Devon County Council has identified 190 infected trees in the Bickleigh area that need to be removed for safety reasons.
The County Council has been liaising with private landowners and will carry out the tree felling on their behalf in order to minimise disruption to the travelling...
Plymouth City Council has been awarded £60,000 of Government funding to deal with rogue landlords.
The news comes after the council submitted a bid to the Department for Communities and Local Government's Rogue Landlords Fund. The additional funding will support existing work and enable more to be done with trading standards, voluntary providers supporting tenants, and working with...
The negative factors associated with smoking are common knowledge – they contain over 7,000 chemical compounds including carbon monoxide, arsenic, formaldehyde, cyanide, benzene, toluene and acrolein.
However surveys from ASH show about two-thirds of the 10 million adult smokers would like to stop smoking but only about 30%-40% make an attempt to quit in a given year.
