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BP made £9.5 Billion profit in 2021 - We need a Windfall Tax Now!

This is about basic fairness. It cannot be right these energy companies are making record profits whilst people are too scared to turn on the heating. A windfall tax is the best way to get…

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Low energy efficiency standards cost owners of new homes £234m last year

The Conservatives have slapped hundreds onto heating bills by scrapping energy efficiency standards for new homes - leaving millions living in poorly insulated homes. They'd rather cosy up to…

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Lib Dems demand tax cuts for small businesses ahead of Small Business Saturday

Cafes, shops and start-ups are all looking at this winter with dread, yet all Boris Johnson can muster up is a massive new tax bill. The Conservatives must be living on another planet if they…

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Omicron variant: Clinically Extremely Vulnerable must not be ignored any longer

It's often said that how a society treats its most vulnerable is the measure of its humanity, but if that's the case, then this Government does not measure up. People who are clinically extremely…

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Social Care and Peppa Pig. What a shambles!

The social Care vote represents yet another broken Tory promise. The Conservatives have rammed through half-baked proposals which break a promise to struggling families and make savings exclusively…

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Waste and recycling survey

Since waste collection has been outsourced to a private company, the service in the South Hams has been patchy at best. OK in some areas but shocking in others. And now brown bin collections have…

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Conservative minister refuses to rule out triggering Article 16 before Christmas

A Conservative minister has failed to rule out triggering Article 16 before Christmas, risking disruption to families and businesses over the festive period.

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SENIOR SHDC COUNCILLOR APOLOGISES FOR MISTAKE AND YET ASKS THE COUNCIL TO FOOT THE BILL

Cllr John Birch, a Totnes district councillor, says

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Call for emergency visas to tackle ‘self-inflicted’ care staff crisis

The Liberal Democrats are calling for emergency changes to the immigration rules to make care workers eligible for visas, as the Government's vaccine mandate comes into force, threatening to add to…

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PM needs to start acting like 'Global Britain'

Boris Johnson has blustered his way to COP26 and it is starting to show. This is the most important conference to take place on our shores in a generation, and we all need it to succeed.

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