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Council’s network of business work spaces scoops FSB award for the best provision of small business offices for upscale and growing businesses

Temporary traffic signals have been installed at Shaldon Bridge in order to reduce the traffic load on the bridge while investigations continue into the structure’s supports

Local community gathers to celebrate the re-opening of the A379 following reinstatement and realignment work

Devon County Council has welcomed the Government’s announcement of extra funding for social care, designed to ease NHS winter pressures.  But it warns ‘money alone will not fix the county’s bigger challenge’, which is that there are not enough people working in the domiciliary care sector in Devon.

From December a small team of specialised trading standards auditors will be trained in an initial pilot. They will then pass what they have learned to trusted local traders who are part of the Buy With Confidence scheme (BWC).

The Department of Health and Social Care this week announced that it’s going to run a recruitment campaign to help employers attract people with the right values into social care.