Adults in the south west are among the most likely in England to consider becoming a foster carer, according to a poll released by leading charity the Fostering Network.
The YouGov poll, published to coincide with the start of Foster Care Fortnight, found that 26 per cent of adults in the south west would consider becoming a foster carer either now or in the future, compared with a UK...
Local law firm, Kitsons, has become the first local business to directly fund a children’s hospice nurse at Children’s Hospice South West Little Bridge House in Fremington, North Devon.
The firm of solicitors, which has offices in Exeter, Torquay and Plymouth, has pledged £1,000 towards CHSW’s ‘Sponsor a Nurse’ campaign, an exciting new corporate initiative that allows business to...
A group of Russian warships with nuclear capabilities has passed by the South West coast today as part of a routine transit into the North Atlantic.
Russian news agencies this morning reported that the aircraft-carrying cruiser the Admiral Kuznetsov and the heavy nuclear guided-missile cruiser Petr Velikiy had entered the English channel.
The South West has seen a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed with malignant melanoma, new figures from Cancer Research UK have revealed.
Over the last 20 years the rates of people diagnosed with malignant melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, has almost doubled in the region.
The results, which were revealed yesterday (Monday) are released as...
Making small talk with a neighbour doesn’t always come naturally for people in the South West but when they do make the effort they feel happier, a new study has revealed.
A national survey carried out by Lottery-funded initiative The Big Lunch, the UK’s annual get-together for neighbours, found that more than 70% of people in the South West said that small talk makes them feel happier...
Torquay-based Dave Morris (26) has left a 10 year military career with The Royal Air Force (RAF) to launch an exciting new commercial business, ‘Nomad LED’, the UK’s first all-electric, emission free, fleet of mobile advertising vehicles sourced in Europe. And the newly launched company is already drawing attention in the region including Torbay Council and the Police for a potential local...
A 15ft great white shark named Lydia is on course to arrive in South West waters later this week, according to scientists tracking her via satellite tag.
Lydia, already the first recorded example of her species to cross the Atlantic, is now less than 1,000 miles from UK shores, and if she keeps to her current course and speed may arrive at the Cornish coast within a few days.
Farmland prices in the South West hit yet another record high during the final six months of 2013, having jumped around seven percent in the space of a year, says the latest RICS/RAU Rural Land Market Survey H2 2013.
During the second half of last year, the average cost of farmland in the region rose to £7,763 per acre, hitting a record high for the eighth consecutive period. The...
