A new renewable energy league table reveals which counties have the most solar panels installed across England and Wales. The South West comes out top, with Cornwall taking first place and Devon hot on its heels.
The renewables industry is an important source of jobs, with more than 10,000 in the South West, including 2,800 in the solar sector. There are 120,000 people employed in the...
Fifty thousand tickets for Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Exeter were released at 8am today during The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw - with more free tickets than ever available to local people living in Exeter and Teignbridge.
Twenty five thousand eagerly-anticipated tickets were available for each day of the two-day event which takes place at Powderham Castle on Saturday 28 and...
The first week of April is Global Asbestos Awareness Week which is a campaign by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organisation (ADAO) to help promote awareness of asbestos related illnesses such as Mesothelioma, Pleural Thickening, Asbestosis, Fibrosis and Lung Cancer in the hope that more and more countries will ban its use.
Asbestos is the name given to a group of minerals that occur...
A replacement plaque to commemorate Sir Francis Chichester’s single-handed voyage around the globe 50 years ago has been revealed ahead of the official unveiling later this year. It is to replace the original bronze swept away in the winter storms of 2014.
The Council has commissioned sculptor Andrew Mitchell to produce the replica bronze plaque based on the twin casting of the...
It’s been celebration for local woman, Misty Bailey, who has been successful in winning a month’s free rent in a national prize draw that was run by estate agent, Your Move, in conjunction with the Corporate Client Department (CCD) of its parent company, LSL Property Services plc (LSL).
Misty, who privately rents a property in Plymouth, entered the prize draw following completion of a...
Small business owners have been warned about a telephone scam offering cheap or heavily discounted advertising in local newspapers and magazines.
Devon and Cornwall Police say scammers have targeted at least three firms in North Devon during the last week. Each time, regular advertisers were offered discounted advertising space in a sister publication and asked for credit card details...
After last year’s success, SSG Training and Consultancy organised a second annual Easter Egg donation for local children’s charity CHICKS (Country Holidays for Inner City Kids). CHICKS provides free, life changing respite breaks for disadvantaged children from all over the UK with centres in Devon, Cornwall and Derbyshire.
SSG team members and course delegates donated over 70 Easter...
Tavistock Fire Station is looking for prospective on-call firefighters to join their ranks.
Interested? An open evening will be held at the fire station on Wednesday 13 April, at 7.00pm.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service is asking for people in the Tavistock community to be on-call or ‘retained’ firefighters. No previous experience of firefighting is necessary for...
ERNIE is definitely testing Agent Million this month, who will be travelling from Scotland to the South West to deliver good news to two new Premium Bond millionaires. Two lucky women - one in Devon and one in Mid Scotland and Fife – are this month’s Premium Bonds jackpot prize winners.
In Devon, the winner has £21,008 invested in Premium Bonds and bought the winning Bond in June 2009...
Ridgeway School Year 7 football team has won the Plymouth Cup. Under the new management of PE teacher and head of the school’s Football Academy, Richard Harvey, the team has gone from strength to strength. The team beat four schools on their way to lifting the coveted trophy. “The boys did not make it easy for themselves, going 2-0 down in the semi-final against Lipson, however they showed great...
