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Extensive footway resurfacing programme gets underway

An extensive footway resurfacing programme is due to get under way in Plymouth on Monday 10 August.

Around 60,000 square metres of ‘slurry seal’ will be laid in 61 locations across the city, on footways that are showing the first signs of deterioration.

Slurry sealing is used as a preventative measure; as well as filling defects, levelling the surface and making it waterproof...

Over 65s call for safer streets

Potential measures to make walking on the streets safer and easier are a right priority for the next Government, according to 57 per cent of people aged 65 and over living in the South West. These are the results of a YouGov poll commissioned by Living Streets and published today (27 January 2015).

The majority (83 per cent) of respondents in the South West say they enjoy getting fresh...