Local Mediation Company expecting 400% growth in 2015. In recent years, mediation has become one of the most highly favoured dispute resolution options for separating couples, allowing them to reach a constructive decision in the most cost-effective and least destructive way possible. That is why award-winning family mediators, Compass Resolution, have made a commitment to reach as many people...
The whole of the Accident and Emergency structures are at breaking point due the changes this government has already made the GMB union has claimed.
GMB, the union for ambulance staff, responded to reports that Ambulance dispatchers will have two minutes longer to decide whether to send an ambulance to many potentially life-threatening 999 calls under pilot schemes in London and the...
Devon County Council’s snow wardens have been put on standby for the coldest spell so far this winter.
The County Council is advising people to take extreme care if travelling this morning, particularly on untreated roads.
Sunny spells, wintry showers and snow flurries are expected througout the region today (Saturday) and a lthough Sunday is forecast to be drier, current...
Connecting Devon & Somerset (CDS) has announced that it will be publishing the tender for the second stage of the superfast broadband programme across the region by early February.
The announcement comes as the current programme gathers significant momentum with over 400 cabinets and nearly 100,000 homes and businesses connected to fibre. In addition, some 2,500 individuals and...
New research reveals that that one in six people in Britain have kept secrets from their loved ones by hiding or lying about rent or mortgage troubles.
Research from Shelter and YouGov paints a picture of a nation of ‘secret strugglers’ who are keeping housing worries from their partners and families. People reported secretly taking out loans, selling items such as jewellery, and even...
A fugitive drug trafficker who headed a crime group that supplied huge amounts of heroin to the South West of England has been arrested in Tenerife.
Stephen Blundell, aged 36, of Leathers Lane, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin but fled to Spain before he could be sentenced in April 2013. He was later jailed for nine years eight months in his absence.
House prices and the number of potential new buyers in the South West rose in December, bucking the general trend across most other parts of the UK, according to the latest RICS Residential Market Survey.
In the region new buyer enquiries turned positive, with 23% more chartered surveyors seeing an increase in December 2014. 22% more respondents in the South West are also seeing prices...
As people return to work and begin to catch up after the Christmas break it is easy for things to get missed, but one thing you can’t forget is your self-assessment tax return deadline, warns ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) requires anyone completing a self-assessment online return to send their forms to them by the...
Plymouth’s trial Christmas tree collection proved extremely popular with tonnes of trees being picked up by Council crews.
Over 10 tonnes of fir and pine have been picked up between Monday and Thursday of this week and the scheme has proved such a hit another team is out and about today to mop up any stray trees that have been left behind.
Students aged 16-plus from Plymouth’s schools were invited to attend a Political Awareness Day hosted by City MP’s Alison Seabeck MP, Oliver Colvile MP and Gary Streeter MP, in partnership with the Plymouth Excellence Cluster last week.
The three MPs, alongside the Excellence Cluster, have become concerned about increasing disillusionment amongst voters, particularly in relation to...
