Police are urging householders to be on their guard for a gang of rogue traders targeting elderly people in Plymouth and Exeter.
Detectives are investigating a number of reports of men calling at pensioners’ homes over Easter weekend deploying high-pressure tactics to carry out so-called ‘essential’ work on their properties. The victims have then been forced to pay thousands of pounds...
Filmed on location in Wales and adapted from the novel by Bruce Chatwin, this is the story of two brothers, identical twins, who farm the same land their family have farmed for generations. The film covers 80 years in the siblings’ lives which forms a backdrop to the drama of the land, and the changes in agricultural life throughout the 20th century. The film celebrates the people and land of the Black Mountains and of how the world of rural existence and struggle is inextricably linked to the lives of the people who inhabit it....
People living in Plymouth can access a ‘Money Advice’ booklet which the Council has produced with Plymouth Community Homes to help explain changes to the benefit system.
From 1 April 2013 the Government introduces the Welfare Reform Agenda which will have an impact on approximately 20 per cent of Plymouth’s working age residents. That’s around 16,000 households.
