Cosy Devon

by davidcox on 3 July, 2022

If you have a household income of less than £30,000 pa , you may be eligible for free energy efficiency improvements to your home worth thousands of pounds, which is better for the environment and will save on energy bills. https://www.cosydevon.com/?fbclid=IwAR0SpG66mTameWGxMK203h1v8Q7d7KoqY8FlVWnSkg57tWZDd4hvaqsJj4c

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Cost of Living Crisis

by davidcox on 19 June, 2022

I’ve been asked by a lot of people when they will get the £400 and other grants and how will will be paid. All households will be given a one-off £400 discount on their fuel bills in October. Direct debit and credit customers will have the money credited to their account.If you use a pre-payment […]

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Tackling Fuel Poverty

by davidcox on 6 June, 2022

With gas prices rising steadily and totals at the till creeping up with each weekly shop, millions of people have faced an “eat or heat” choice. In response to the ‘cost of living crisis’ I will be sponsoring ECOE’s ‘Heathy Homes for Wellbeing’ project in West Teignmouth. ECOE aim to tackle fuel poverty through advising […]

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Cleaning French Street

by davidcox on 4 June, 2022

Local residents from French Street and Station Road helped us tidy the end of French Street by the Museum. After over year South West Water finally put the area right. The poor residents of French Street have had to put up with their once vibrant and colourful street, being a building site for over a […]

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Teignmouth Hospital

by davidcox on 30 May, 2022

It’s not for reasons of nostalgia or tradition that I will be calling on Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to reverse his decision to close Teignmouth Hospital, at the Devon County Council Health Committee in June. It is because Teignmouth Hospital can play a very real part in the modern […]

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There is nothing new about the fuel poverty issue. However this year, with retail prices and energy prices surging, and ’boutique’ energy suppliers failing, keeping people warm should be soaring up in the political agenda. The Resolution Foundation is warning that “2022 is set to be the ‘year of the squeeze’”. The failure of the […]

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Election Manifesto Launched

by davidcox on 10 March, 2019

A large cheerful group of Liberal Democrats candidates gathered at Forde House Newton Abbot on Saturday to give the Teignbridge Liberal Democrat Election Manifesto a warm reception. Group Leader Cllr Gordon Hook launched the campaign to regain control of Teignbridge Council. The manifesto outlines our aims and objectives should we win on 2nd May. Our […]

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Woodland Saved for Now

by davidcox on 8 March, 2019

PEOPLE power may have triumphed, after a woodland was saved from clearing and cutting, a prelude to a house building development, residences feared. Terrence Stone Construction made a dramatic U-turn and withdraw its application to clear paths through the scrub around and through the area of protected woodland to enable further “site survey and investigation […]

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Black Sludge: Just say NO to the MMO

by davidcox on 27 February, 2019

Teignmouth protesters are demanding dredging at Exmouth Marina does not mean black sludge ends up on the town’s beaches. Angry protesters gathered on Monday 2(5th February) outside the Pavilion building hosting the Teign Estuary Partnership meeting, to rally against proposals to dump silt dredged from Exmouth Marina just off Teignmouth’s beaches. A licence to dump […]

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Teignmouth’s Beach Cleaners head inland

by davidcox on 8 February, 2019

Windy weather and high tides meant Teignmouth’s Beach Cleaners headed inland and gave the Brunswick Car Park, George Street community park and the Lower Brook Street area a good clean.

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