Tesco has sold a piece of land which is vital to the delivery of a multi-million pound relief road for a town in Devon. Mid Devon District Council said the news marked “the overcoming of another major hurdle to finally deliver the road” in Cullompton. The council got £34m from central government in August to...
Hospitals in Devon and Cornwall have been given more than £22m for vital repairs, the Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed. It comes as part of the £750m announced for the NHS in England in the autumn budget. Devon’s hospitals have been given more than £15m for improvements, while Cornish hospitals will benefit...
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News WWF Saltmarshes are buffer zones between the land and the sea and act as natural flood defences The UK’s saltmarshes are vital “sinks” that lock away climate-warming greenhouse gases in layers of mud, according to a new report from WWF. Much of the UK’s saltmarshes have been lost to...
Ben Chu & Lucy Gilder BBC Verify Reuters The fate of the Scunthorpe steel works has shone a fresh spotlight on Chinese investment in the UK economy with critics raising questions over potential security risks. The British Steel plant had been owned by China’s Jingye Steel. But the UK government has now taken control of...