Local News

Small business owners have been warned about a telephone scam offering cheap or heavily discounted advertising in local newspapers and magazines.

Devon and Cornwall Police say scammers have targeted at least three firms in North Devon during the last week. Each time, regular advertisers were offered discounted advertising space in a sister publication and asked for credit card details...

ERNIE is definitely testing Agent Million this month, who will be travelling from Scotland to the South West to deliver good news to two new Premium Bond millionaires. Two lucky women - one in Devon and one in Mid Scotland and Fife – are this month’s Premium Bonds jackpot prize winners.

In Devon, the winner has £21,008 invested in Premium Bonds and bought the winning Bond in June 2009...

Liz Lawson, Managing Director of Lawsons, who have traded in Plymouth since 1904 and are a key fixture of Plymouth’s high street, has decided to stand down as vice-chair of the Plymouth City Centre Company and its Business Improvement District (BID).

Liz was a founder of the City Centre BID in 2005, the first BID to be established in the UK outside of London.

Liz was the lead...

South West and Gibraltar MEP Dr Julia Reid has raised concerns over damning new figures that show the amount spent on temporary staff by Plymouth City Council has sky-rocketed.

Plymouth City Council spent just under £8.7 million on temporary staff in 2014/15 compared to just over £7 million the previous financial year.

The figures, obtained by UKIP MEP Dr Julia Reid through a...