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Best dog-walking beaches in Devon and Cornwall

Travel expert shares the top spots for sandy dog walks this autumn and winter

As dog restrictions ease on many UK beaches, autumn is an ideal time to hit the coast with your four-legged companion. With cooler weather, peaceful shores, and stunning sunsets, it’s one of the most enjoyable...

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Alison Seabeck speaks in Westminster to back Plymouth for City of Culture 2017

Alison's speech in Westminster Hall on Tuesday follows below:

It is a huge honour for any city to win the title of UK city of culture, and I am sure all the bids will be strong. The value and kudos involved in winning are enormous. Sarah Shortland, who was vox-popped in The Herald in Plymouth, said:

“It would be good for Plymouth—I visited Liverpool after they won European...

Shadow Business Minister visits Plymouth to see how the South West does business

A recent visit to Plymouth by the Shadow Business Minister, Toby Perkins MP, was an opportunity for him to set out some of the policy ideas being developed by Labour in Opposition. It is very easy for people to assume that there are no policies because of the lack of coverage in the media. The truth is that every Shadow minister is working to develop policy and that involves engaging with...

My top three marketing tips and how they got me some free stuff

So I was at the Devon County Show today and I struck up a conversation with one of the traders. It turned out we both hailed from the same place.

He eventually asked me what I did for a living and when I said media and marketing he responded with: “Okay, give me your top three marketing tips”, which I did.

And whilst they are fresh in my mind I thought I’d share them through my...

The DUKW that didn't take to water

As its Plymouth History Festival this month I thought I would mention a little bit of transport history that didn't happen:

November 2005

A Somerset-based company is launching a new way of sightseeing in Plymouth . Porcellio is to offer visitors tours with a difference aboard its fleet of restored and updated Second World War amphibious vehicles, which can operate on both...

Pooch Power!!

Is it just this country that’s nuts about animals in advertising? Everywhere in our office we’ve got pictures of pooches looking adoringly down at us from calendars and wall hangings – we just can’t get enough of them and it would seem nor can anyone else.

Even Go Compare has resorted to using a scruffy little dog to get everyone going gaga, and how popular is the EDF ad with Zingy...

Inflation or deflation? That is the question...

...Which is more beneficial to savers?

Since 2008, investors have been questioning whether it is inflation or deflation that haunts them. One might imagine that by now we would be closer to knowing the truth but, in our experience, the answer to these ‘either/or’ questions is almost always ‘neither’. When the two options are polar opposites, some combination inevitably turns out to...

Fire at Western Greyhound

It wont have escaped your attention that Western Greyhound suffered a massive setback to their business in the early hours of yesterday morning with a large fire at the main Summercourt base which has destroyed 37 buses – a third of the whole fleet.

At 0105 this morning Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service received a call to a fire in a bus depot. On arrival crews found there to be 9 buses...

Your chance to vote on who chooses your lawyer when you buy a house

A Cornish solicitor has started an online poll asking the public how they would like to be legally represented when buying a property.

A P Bassett’s are trying to get the message across that consumers are not being given the chance to choose their own solicitor when buying a house.

England and Scotland use the same system but The Law Society in Scotland has voted to change the...

Internet Only or Hands on Shopping Experience?

How about both! With the closure of many shops on the high streets around Britain today you’d be forgiven for thinking that businesses are abandoning the high street in their droves to concentrate on internet sales. Well we learnt today of two businesses that started off as internet only catalogue businesses that have now built their presence in shops as well as retaining their internet...

Plymouth's First Poet Laureate...

Councillor Chaz Singh... Plymouth's incumbent Deputy Lord Mayor, has long been an enthusiastic supporter and follower of my work, along with long time friend David 'Davy' Saunders, the Town Crier,

Such is their enthusiasm for my work, in light of the fact I have produced all the recent civic poetry up to and including the recent 'City of Culture' bid poem, they...

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