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A new, refreshed Countryside Code has been launched today by Natural England, coinciding with the 70thth anniversary of the creation of the founding booklet. With more people enjoying the outdoors than ever before, the code has been revised to help people enjoy countryside in a safe and respectful way. The first Countryside Code booklet was published in 1951. This update - the first in over a...

A special meeting of Mid Devon’s Planning Committee was held remotely on the 31st March to consider a proposal to construct a massive solar farm with battery storage near the village of Langford.

About fifty members of the public, who object to plans for the biggest solar farm in Devon, attended the meeting to hear a report by the council’s Head of Planning, Economy and Regeneration...

Cats Protection is celebrating the first anniversary of a pioneering online adoption process which has rehomed over 20,000 cats around the UK.

The milestone figure coincides with National Pet Month (April) and the one-year anniversary of the launch of Hands Free Homing, a new way of homing cats and kittens which was created in response to the coronavirus restrictions. It has been...

• At the same time, 41% of young people say they are now more likely to consider on the job learning such as an apprenticeship.
• More than a third (38%) of young people say they are concerned about their job prospects since the onset of the pandemic.
• Proportion of young people offered information about apprenticeships via school falls to four-year low.

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