Torbay Council’s Development Management Committee have approved a retirement living scheme for the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay.

The Celebrating Torbay 2016 calendar, which features 20 rarely seen photos of bygone Torquay, Paignton and Brixham, is now available to buy and you or your family could already be a part of it! The calendar, which is part of the Year of Local History 2016: Celebrating Torbay project, has gone on sale in time for the Christmas rush and can be purchased at all Torbay libraries.

A Bay wide event will be taking place in Paignton on Monday 7 December 2015 to discuss the current budget proposals for the next year.

Members of Torbay’s Brass Band were in Torquay Town Centre to promote the Bay’s annual Civic Carol Concert taking place on Tuesday 8 December at the Riviera International Conference Centre (RICC).

Torbay Council’s Public Health Team is supporting Public Health England’s appeal to the public, healthcare professionals and students to join the fight against resistance and become Antibiotic Guardians Antibiotic Guardian, a campaign led by Public Health England urges members of the public and healthcare professionals to take action in helping to slow antibiotic resistance and ensure our antibiotics work now and in the future.

Torbay Council’s Public Health Team is advising people to get their fossil fuel and wood burning appliances checked by an appropriately registered engineer before winter sets in.

As part of World AIDS Day and National HIV testing week testing people are being asked to wear a red ribbon show support.

Torbay Council’s Future Planning and Transport team is launching a consultation to hear local people’s thoughts on over 70 future transport projects in Torbay.

Torbay Council’s Adult Social Care Commissioning Team, led by John Bryant, have been awarded the LaingBuisson award for Best Commissioner.

In its 70th anniversary year and 40 years after the creation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Science Commission of UNESCO (United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and Culture) at the UNESCO General Conference in Paris today has approved the statutes of the new “International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme” which will allow for the creation of the new site designation of “UNESCO Global Geoparks” and the re-designation of all 120 existing Global Geoparks, including Torbay, as new UNESCO Global Geoparks.

This week is International Restorative Justice week and Torbay Council’s restorative justice partnership project Make Amends is asking residents what they would like to say.

For this year’s Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week, teenagers throughout Torbay are being reminded that they have the right to feel safe and happy in their relationships and that anything else just isn’t ok.

Congratulations go to Torbay Council’s Adult Social Care Commissioning Team, led by Head Commissioner John Bryant, who have been announced as a finalist in the forthcoming national LaingBuisson Awards for their work on Torbay’s Living Well@Home project.

On Friday 6 November the draft proposals for service change, income generation and savings in 2016/17 will be published by Torbay Council.

Single foster carer Peter Prowse from Paignton in Devon has been named as Teenage Foster Carer for 2015 at the FosterTalk Foster Carer Awards, which were held in London last week.

The Coca-Cola Christmas truck tour returns to the Bay on Thursday 26 November as the iconic ‘Holidays Are Coming’ TV advert celebrates 20 years on UK screens Coca-Cola has announced the return of the Coca-Cola Christmas truck tour, which will kick off on a nationwide tour on Friday 20 November.

At this year’s Federation of Small Business awards ceremony, Torbay Council won the category for the best scheme to support innovative hi tech businesses.

Torbay Council has teamed up with the metal packaging manufacturing and recycling industries to urge residents to ‘make their metals matter’ and recycle more of the metal packaging items they use at home every year.

There is less illegal tobacco in Torbay this month thanks to the efforts of Yoyo the Tobacco Detection Dog, his handler from the Illegal Tobacco Unit, and Torbay Council’s Trading Standards Team.