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PUBLISHED: 12:30 22 January 2019 Clarissa Place Members of the Men's Shed in Ottery celebrate its first birthday. Archant Thousands of pounds of community cash is set to be spent on organisations across the Ottery parish. Members of the Men's Shed in Ottery celebrate its first birthday.Ottery Town Council approved the recommendations of the finance committee at last Monday’s meeting, allocating money to support 14 groups and charities in the area. The biggest beneficiaries include £1,000 to the town’s Men Shed towards the cost of putting in a planning application to move to the football club. Members debated the recommendation to grant £250 out of the £1,000 asked for by the Ottery Food and Families Festival.The event’s committee requested the sum to go towards enhancing signage, provide a visitor shuttle service from the football club and Finnimore estate and more children’s events. Councillor Roger Giles suggested … [Read more...] about Ottery organisations and charities benefit from funding boost

Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) says he will give residents “something to show for their investment”, after councillors supported his proposal to increase the police's share of council tax in the county. In a pitch to local authority representatives from across Lancashire, Clive Grunshaw pledged increased investment in neighbourhood policing and a boost to the number of officers available for investigations. Approximately 90 new officer roles will be created in total within the Lancashire force.READ MORE >>> Special constable role to be refocused on quality rather than quantityThe PCC also revealed that almost two thirds of more than 4,000 respondents to a survey supported his plan to add £24 to the council tax of a Band D property.But councillors approved it by just a one-vote margin - and the PCC came under pressure over the distribution of the extra officers and how he planned to fund them.Mr. Grunshaw told a meeting of the Police … [Read more...] about Council tax: residents will “feel the benefit” of higher bills to pay for more police, says crime commissioner