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As the summer buying season continues with The Great Barratt Move, the five star housebuilder takes a look at how your personality shapes your moving experience.

Leading psychology and health expert, Professor Cary Cooper says that moving home continues to be one of the most stressful life events and that your everyday personality will have a massive effect on how you approach a move.

“Moving really magnifies an individual’s personality,’’ said Cary. “It is one of the leading life events because it touches so much of your life and that has a massive effect on how you behave...

Imagine a fantasy jukebox that contained all the most influential, innovative, adventurous and just plain great music since the dawn of the recording era. OK, so the likes of iTunes, YouTube and Spotify have made this more of a reality than a fantasy, but setting aside their rather indiscriminating presence, what should it include?

Continuing a series exploring some of the key musical statements of the recording era, Matthew Vizard picks a totemic modern folk-rock standard.

4. Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes (1969, Island Records) Writer: Sandy Denny...

Name: Adam Stone – CEO of Rokk Media Ltd and on the board or a shareholder of businesses in the region.

How would you describe yourself in five words? Ordinary chap with extraordinary friends.

How would you describe Exeter in five words? My home and my passion.

What brought you to Exeter? I was born and raised here.

Which part of Exeter is home? The village of Alphington – a few minutes walk from my office.

What is your favourite place in Exeter? A walk, cycle or very occasional boat trip along the river Exe to the estuary.

What is...

The biggest issue in new under resourced businesses is the large gap between “think and do” and that goes both ways to “do and don’t think” as well. People who spend their valuable time doing “don’t think” about their business, and people who think about their businesses, don’t have the time or resource to implement that thinking.

The problem is “I know what to do but I don’t know when I am going to do it” the most common cry in any young business and the biggest reason for them failing in the first three years. In any business there are things that have to be done, things that...