Consultation planned for next stage of Exeter cycle route
Plans for the next section of the strategic cycle route in Exeter have been drawn up by Devon County Council and will be available to view online from Monday 15 October to Monday 19 November
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Posted on: 9 October 2018 | Posted in: Environment
Convert Devon community hospital buildings for health use county councillors tell NHS
Closure-threatened community hospitals in Devon should be used as health and wellbeing centres for local people, the county council is telling the NHS.
Posted on: 5 October 2018 | Posted in: Health and Wellbeing
Consultation on next phase of Newton Abbot cycle path
A consultation starts today (Friday 5 October) on proposals for the next phase of a pedestrian and cycle path being developed in Newton Abbot
Posted on: 5 October 2018 | Posted in: Environment
Lane closure needed for urgent repairs in Station Road, Topsham
The city-bound lane of Station Road, Topsham, will be closed for four weeks from Sunday (7 October) to enable urgent repairs to get underway on a Grade 2 listed wall
Posted on: 5 October 2018 | Posted in: Environment
Calling all aspiring tenant farmers!
Aspiring farmers are invited to explore four soon-to-be vacant farms on Devon County Council’s estate this month. The viewing days will showcase the holdings, which will be available to rent from March 2019 on a seven-year Farm Business Tenancy
Posted on: 4 October 2018 | Posted in: Business and Economy
Care job vacancies rise to 110,000
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.
Posted on: 27 September 2018 | Posted in: Health and Wellbeing
Devon encourages smokers to quit for Stoptober
Devon smokers will get extra help and support to quit their habit this month (October) as the national Stoptober campaign returns for its sixth year
Posted on: 27 September 2018 | Posted in: Health and Wellbeing
Illegal tobacco seized
Haul included 8,120 cigarettes, with an estimated £1,763 duty and VAT evaded
4.5kg kilos of hand-rolling tobacco, with an estimated £986 duty and VAT evaded
Posted on: 26 September 2018 | Posted in: Community
Safeguarding concerns lifted for Donness Nursing Home
Health and social care commissioners, NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group and Devon County Council, have lifted their suspension of placements following a whole service safeguarding review of Donness Nursing Home in Westward Ho!, previously rated ‘inadequate’ by The Care Quality Commission (CQC) who regulate the service.
Posted on: 26 September 2018 | Posted in: Health and Wellbeing
Devon’s library service named one of Nesta’s national New Radicals
Libraries Unlimited, the charity responsible for running Devon and Torbay’s library service, has been named as one of the 50 most radical thinking individuals and organisations changing the UK for the better.
Posted on: 26 September 2018 | Posted in: Community
