As much as £300 million worth of gift vouchers bought this year could go unspent according to research by the UK Gift Card and Voucher Association (UKGCVA). Consumer Affairs Minister Jo Swinson is urging consumers to spend and enjoy any vouchers they get for Christmas before they expire.
Every year 6% of vouchers bought by consumers go unused as they lay forgotten in people’s wallets...
Plymouth City Council has sold a five acre plot of land at Plymouth International Medical and Technology Park to HellermannTyton, securing existing jobs and the company’s future in Plymouth.
HellermannTyton is one of the leading suppliers of products for fastening, fixing and protecting cables, and has been operating a manufacturing site from their current location at Plymouth’s...
Urgent action needed to target child exploitation in Devon There is no intelligence to suggest organised child sexual exploitation networks are operating in Devon, according to a detailed new report.
But child exploitation is still likely to be happening in the county on a daily basis, according to the report.
However neither the police nor the county council currently hold...
A local charity is offering people ideas for a wild Christmas with a difference.
Leading conservation charity Devon Wildlife Trust has developed a series of ideas for ‘wild Christmas escapes’ and is urging people to spend just a small part of the festive season and get away from the excesses and stresses of this time of year.
Devon Wildlife Trust’s Steve Hussey explained the...
Landlords in the South West are least at risk of rent arrears, according to research from the UK’s leading landlord association*.
Those in the South West were found to be less at risk with a quarter (25 per cent) of landlords experiencing rent arrears in the last 12 months, compared to 29 per cent of landlords in the South East.
The research shows that a typical landlord in the...
‘Keep the 999 line free for me’ is the urgent request being made by the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) ahead of one of its busiest times of the year.
This awareness raising campaign will run for at least the winter period and encourages people to question whether or not they really need to dial 999. Many of the 999 calls made to the service could actually...
As part of Widey Court Primary School’s Christmas festivities, year three pupils hand wrote 90 letters to patients who are staying in hospital over Christmas.
There were many smiles on faces as the letters were given out across the elderly care wards at Derriford Hospital, by Sarah Carlson, Matron for Elderly Care and Juliet Richardson, Senior Sister on Monkswell Ward.
Most people feel worried, low, fearful or distressed at some time in their lives and these feelings often appear heightened at during the festive period.
Money or health worries, loneliness, or family tensions, don’t simply disappear just because it’s Christmas. In fact, these stresses can be worse at this time of year.
The hype associated with Christmas and New Year can make...
Online giants including Amazon and LinkedIn could be doing far more to raise awareness of the need for better password practices among their users.
Analysis by Professor Steven Furnell, Director of the Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research at Plymouth University, looked into the password security controls in place among 10 of the world’s most visited websites....
