High streets are so much more than just shopping streets. They shape how people feel about where they live. When they’re thriving, people take pride in their towns and feel a real sense of optimism not just about their local area but the country as well. Sadly, though, Labour’s first year in office delivered successive blows to businesses and the high street. Over the past months, I have been hosting meetings for traders across South Devon, speaking directly to those running

Nearly 100,000 jobs have been lost in hospitality since last year’s Budget. If that number of jobs had gone from the steel industry, it would have been headline news for weeks. And yet little has been said about the loss in hospitality since these jobs are dispersed across the country. But behind these figures are lives that have been turned upside down, and in the case of business closures, communities that have lost vital third spaces. Hospitality used to be a job creating

The campaign to open a banking hub in Totnes and improve banking services in rural areas continues!

I’m very relieved to see the Government take the long overdue step of banning online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation.

Despite still being over a month away, speculation about the Budget and its contents are already in full swing.  

In coastal communities’, independent lifeboats are not only a valued community asset but a vital part of the network for emergency responses.