Rail Minister Claire Perry has welcomed the first major redesign of First Great Western’s mainline timetable in Devon and Cornwall for seven years by waving off the first new 0706 retimed service.
The changes launched on Monday (15 December) see an improved service for the South West, providing an earlier morning direct service from London to Plymouth and Cornwall and shaving over 30...
Pace of price growth in the South West accelerated slightly over the last three months and new reform in the Autumn Statement is expected to boost sales
House price growth in the past three months accelerated slightly in the South West and new Stamp Duty reforms see surveyors forecasting a sales boost of between 2-5%, according to the latest RICS Residential Market Survey.
Employers in the South West are entering the new year buoyed by optimism, according to Manpower, the global leader in contingent and permanent recruitment workforce solutions.
The South West’s Employment Outlook has leapt by 19 percentage points after a brief foray into negative territory last quarter, propelling it towards the top of the regional leaderboard.
The UK is set to lose up to 348 million working days next year because of poor IT investment – and employees now have a more sophisticated suite of technology at home than at work, a new study by Chelsea Apps Factory has found.
64% of people in Plymouth said their office IT was preventing them doing their job properly, with computers crashing and slow internet speeds the most...
More than six months after the National Review of Asthma Deaths highlighted the complacency about asthma care, research from Asthma UK published on Friday shows that almost 8 out of 10 people in the South West are still not receiving care that meets the most basic clinical standards (79%).1 This is despite the fact that good basic asthma care prevents life-threatening asthma attacks and...
New research from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) reveals that apprenticeships will contribute around £3.2 billion to the economy of the South West in 2014.
This comes after the ‘Made by apprentices 1914 – 2014’ event yesterday on board HMS St Albans, marking 100 years of apprenticeships.
This figure includes gains to the economy from higher wages,...
A new report, released today by renewable energy experts Regen SW, reveals that 16,000 people are employed by south west construction businesses in making our homes more energy efficient – but with, the right backing, this could be much higher.
The report – ‘The South West Retrofit Market Study’ – warns that, if we don’t act to support the sector now, the region could miss the...
House prices continued to rise in the South West, but at a slower pace, according to the latest RICS Residential Market Survey.
In line with slowing momentum, surveyors are now anticipating a much flatter price outlook in the run up to Christmas, but over the course of the next 12 months they remain quite positive.
The level of sales activity was more or less unchanged on the...
The UK housing marketing is entering a new phase. It has been through a boom, a bust and a recovery cycle, and as we head into 2015 and a year that will see the formation of a new Government, we are now entering a more stable, yet still challenging era.
That’s according to leading property consultancy JLL’s new Residential Market Review, published this month which predicts that South...
Boux Avenue opened a new store at Drake Circus in Plymouth on Thursday.
Created and owned by Theo Paphitis, Boux Avenue has built a reputation for offering affordable luxury, by capturing the essence of contemporary to vintage designs for women, to enjoy body- beautiful inner confidence.
With customer experience central to Theo Paphitis’s philosophy, Boux Avenue captures the...
