Business

BARRISTERS at a Westcountry-based law service specialising in family and child law is supporting a new report that calls for parental breakdown to be moved away from a ‘justice’ response.

A 123-page report by the Family Solutions Group said that a legal response to parental disagreements over their children is inappropriate for many, and actively harmful for some.

Family barrister, Elizabeth McCallum, who co-founded Children in the Middle® with fellow Exeter barrister Sarah Evans, says: “The new report from the Family Solutions Group calls for a rethink of society’s...

A group of charity-minded Exeter College students have been inundated with knitted clothing after a post asking for donations went viral on Facebook.

A tutor group of Health and Social Care students have been collecting various knitted items for distribution to neonatal units around the country to help keep babies that are premature or with additional needs to stay warm in the days after birth. Students had planned to contact a few local knitting groups to help create small knitted hats, gloves and blankets but after a poster found its way on to Facebook the request has gone viral...

Trading has become a very popular hobby for some, and for others, a full-time career. It was only thirty years ago that trading was exclusive to the investment bankers of Canary Wharf and Wall Street; now, trading is accessible to absolutely anybody, from any location with an internet connection, and any walk of life. A few years ago, it was commonplace to see teenagers from low-income homes make it big with trading and wind up plastered across the front-pages of newspapers and magazines. It is so common for people to make their riches through trading nowadays that we no longer see these...

More dentists in England, Wales and Northern Ireland need to follow the lead of their Scottish counterparts and install high-grade air purification systems, if they are to stay profitable during the pandemic.

That’s according to air quality specialist, John Wilton Davies, who advises a range of businesses, including dental practitioners, on keeping their premises COVID-19 secure.

Where surgeries carry out procedures that may generate aerosols, guidelines require fallow time – the period from when the procedure finishes to the time the room may be cleaned in preparation...