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Shute Community Primary School pupils enjoy their new-look grounds
- Credit: Shute Community Primary School
Children, staff and parents returned to new-look to Shute Community Primary School grounds at the beginning of the summer term last week.
Over the Easter holidays members of the PTFA worked hard to transform the outside spaces at the school. The works included installing a new climbing dome, repainting fences and walls, creating a large new outdoor blackboard for the children to draw on, revamping the existing outdoor stage area and seating, cleaning the existing play equipment, planting up a herb garden, supplying parasols and picnic benches, and bringing in pots and seeds for every child to grow a sunflower this term. The works are part of a large scale and ongoing effort by the school to improve on the existing grounds for learning, play and all forms of recreation.
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Axminster s business community is hoping for help with their economic recovery
- Credit: Barrie Hedges
Hard-hit traders in Axminster have their attention fixed on Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget today as he announces his financial route out of lockdown.
A survey of businesses by the Totally Locally Axminster traders’ group shows that optimism over the town’s future is being tempered by concerns whether crucial support will be available to help them get through the recovery stages.
As chief executive of one of the town’s most high profile businesses, River Cottage managaing director Stewart Dodd said that businesses would be unlikely to return to pre-Covid revenue levels until 2022. He spoke for most with his assessment of the critical factors for local businesses, including a furlough scheme extension until July 31 to support a phased return to work. He believed both the reduced VAT rate of five per cent and businesses rates relief should be further extended to the end