A charity has been awarded funding from an impactful award from Global’s Make Some Noise. Active8 supports young people aged 14 to 30 living with disabilities in Cornwall and Devon. The charity said its work with young people helped them to develop skills, hobbies and a sense of community. The £54,000 funding from the award...
More police officers will be on the beat in Devon and Cornwall after a £4.7m grant from the Home Office. The grant meant 45 more police officers would be deployed into neighbourhood police teams, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly said. It also means...
Anna Varle BBC South West health correspondent The Barrett family Alice Barrett, 27, was fit and healthy until her third year of university when her condition deteriorated The sister of a woman with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is calling on the government to adequately fund its plan to overhaul care for patients with the debilitating...
A popular bus route will return in the summer after funding was secured from two councils. The Exmoor Explorer, previously known as the Exmoor Coaster, will operate from 25 May until 31 August 2025. The bus service takes passengers from Minehead to Ilfracombe along a route that takes in views of Exmoor National Park and...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that may cut off Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funding. Planned Parenthood says the move violates the Medicaid Act’s “free choice of provider” provision, which says patients are entitled to choose their own doctors. The case, brought by the state of South Carolina, could impact the...
Head Start normally isn’t considered a partisan issue. The early child care program, under the purview of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was launched six decades ago as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war on poverty.” It’s historically had support from both sides of the aisle in Congress; after all,...
The Trump administration’s threat comes as many school districts are preparing their budgets for the next school year. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The U.S. Department of Education is giving state education agencies 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in any practices...
Organisers of Plymouth Pride have cancelled this year’s events due to a lack of funding and a drop in the number of volunteers. They said last year’s event cost more than £33,500 to put on, but only £21,500 was raised – leaving a shortfall of £12,000. A National Lottery funding application to fund future events...
France’s Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of misappropriating European funds to finance her far-right National Rally (RN) party. The judge has not yet said what the sentence will be. Prosecutors last year said Le Pen’s punishment should be not just a €300,000 (£250,000) fine and prison term, but also ineligibility from running for...
Flood schemes in Devon and Cornwall will receive about £33m of government funding, the Environment Agency (EA) has said. It said the plan to put “fresh funding” into 70 flood schemes in the counties would help to “protect 27,000 more homes and businesses over the next year”. Projects earmarked in the scheme included a watercourse...
The government has agreed a new funding package with pharmacy negotiators in England, leading some pharmacies to call off protests that were planned for later this week. One group representing thousands of local pharmacies was preparing to take action involving cuts to opening hours from Tuesday, but they say that will be delayed while they...
The move could send the US back to “the dark days of the ‘80s, when people died from HIV every day,” one advocate said. The Trump administration is reportedly considering ending a division within the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that is focused on funding HIV/AIDs prevention and treatment. Even if Trump simply...
Senate Democrats have signaled that they will not support a continuing resolution bill to fund the government that is being offered by Republican lawmakers, setting up a potential government shutdown if a deal cannot be reached by Friday at midnight. The resolution offered by Republicans, already passed in the GOP-run House of Representatives, would make...