South West England

RURAL DEVELOPMENT GATEWAY

Press releases

Here you can find RDPE press releases covering activity across the region in 2010.

2010 headlines

August   

• Soils for Profit breaks the 700 barrier
• Farming Help network to expand thanks to £½ million RDPE grant
• Upland farmers invited to book free one-to-one farm advice visit
• It's the Main Place to be thanks to RDPE
• New Register helping target scheduled monuments for Environmental Stewardship agreements
• Regional investment puts Bristol business on wine and tourism trail
• RDPE ends 40 years wait for the Isles of Scilly
• Consols Pond in St Ives gets a new grant

July

• New South West Director at Natural England
• Soils for Profit (S4P) breaks the 500 barrier
• Facilitation service helps to make a CASE
• South West TB Advisory Services goes live
• £18 million boost for tourism in the South West
• South West RDA sends letter to stakeholders

June

• Award-winning West Devon business complex to expand
• Weighbridge grant reduces unnecessary farm traffic
• Plain Action
• New training opportunities at state of art learning centre
• Work starts on ambitious vet surgery project
• Farmers and horticulturalists urged to find out how they can become more profitable

May

• £730,000 broadband boost for rural communities in the South West
• South West livestock industry to get £7.5 million animal health boost
• Sowing SEEDs for Future Roots

March

• Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site to receive major European funding
• Re-generation of the Village Hub

February

• Sweet prospects are in store for east Devon honey farm
• Go Lakeside and get Outdoor + Active
• Farmers go up the aisle to diversify
• Dairy expansion will create new jobs

January

• £134,000 boost for Harman's Cross new village hall