Plymouth considered curbs on foreign students in city centre shops

Drakes Circus in Plymouth City Centre

Proposal would limit number of students allowed in a shop at one time to tackle rise in shoplifting and antisocial behaviour

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Conservative health minister comes under fire over tobacco briefings

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Leaked emails reveal that Earl Howe sought out the views of Philip Morris International in his campaign against tobacco control measures

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Cuts have affected patient care, say doctors

David Cameron's so-called policy on the NHS!

Exclusive poll backs up consultants’ protests over bed closures and longer waiting times for surgery

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Living alone? Councils target single-person discount

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Local authorities are using private companies to track down people wrongly claiming single-person discount, but the innocent are also being caught

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Solar subsidy cuts legally flawed, high court rules

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The government’s decision to slash feed-in tariff incentives for solar installations breached rules governing consultation exercises

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Are Devon organic companies feeling the pinch?

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Overall sales of ‘ethical’ goods and services – from produce to transport and funerals – rose by 9% despite decline in organic food, according to the Co-operative

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Environment Agency minded to issue environmental permit for Plymouth incinerator

Devonport incinerator protest

Environment Agency is satisfied Devonport incinerator ‘will be constructed and operated in a way that will not significantly pollute the environment or harm human health’

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The curse of the post-modern feminist

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Just as every respecting femals should be, Chloe Cook is a feminist and proud. She just wishes there was less of that pesky sexism about

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We're not all in this together anymore – Osborne penalises the poor with his Autumn Statement

Danny Alexander

With his autumn statement, the chancellor has declared class war: a Tory assault on the public sector and the poor

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Five reasons public service workers are right to strike

Torbay November 30 March

David Cameron calls Wednesday’s strikes the ‘height of irresponsibility’. In fact they are a basic democratic necessity

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Sign up to e-petition to delay retreat from support of household solar schemes

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The decision to bring forward the reduced rate for the Feed in Tariff for household solar installation will affect both householders and local installers. Transition Newton Abbot calls for people to sign the e-petition attempt to delay the change

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Feed in Tariff scheme an expensive distraction for an effective national energy policy

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The cut to the Feed in Tariff rate of subsidy was inevitable, says South West MEP Giles Chichester – and the expensive, unfair and unsustainable policy was a distraction to the real issue of the energy crisis

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£48m Baltic Wharf development in Totnes uses Community Champions for full involvement

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The Totnes local community is being called to input on the look and feel of phase one of the £48m development of the town’s Baltic Wharf

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Feed-in tariff transition dates changed – e-petition aims to persuade the government to stick to the original date

With the government changing the date for the change of the tariff for households to sell their solar energy back to the National Grid, an e-petition has been set up to convince them to stick to the original date

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