Business

Ashfords LLP’s multi award winning conveyancing team has gained further national recognition for the quality of its service at the 2012 LFS Conveyancing Awards.

The team picked up four awards, including Gold for Best Regional Conveyancer: South & South West, Silver awards for overall Best National Conveyancer and Best National Direct Conveyancer. and a Bronze award for Best Conveyancer, as voted for by national Estate Agents.

The team’s commitment to providing excellent service to clients was recognised by the judging panel, which said of Ashfords’ Gold Award: “This was...

Six legal secretaries from Michelmores Solicitors in Exeter are running in this year’s Dartmoor Vale race in support of two cancer charities.

Julie Holmes. Frances Blackmore, Chris Vaughan and Wendy Coombe will all be covering a 10K route to raise money for Breast Cancer Care with Emma Jacobs covering the same distance and Rosie Taylor the half marathon for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Wendy Coombe explained: “My friend Julie Holmes, who is always there to support others, is running the Dartmoor Vale 10k to raise money for Breast Cancer Care after her...

A national newspaper has praised the joint effort that went into securing the new John Lewis store for Exeter.

Observer journalist Zoe Wood wrote:

Despite the rearguard action being fought by government high street tsar Mary Portas, town centres around the country are being pushed to breaking point as retail chains are felled by the recession. One in seven high-street shops lies empty, with the recent failure of JJB Sports, which resulted in more than 130 closures, making a grim picture worse.

Against that backdrop, the strength of Exeter's retail centre – albeit...

The government has recently published an independent report written by Sir Adrian Montague, who was asked to undertake a review of the barriers to institutional investment in the private rented homes sector.

Sir Adrian is possibly the busiest city grandee there is, having chaired or held directorships in Friends Provident, Cross Rail, British Energy, Anglian Water Group, 3i and recently announced as the new head of the Governments Green Investment Bank). He was also advisor to Gordon Brown for some 4 years and has also worked as Head of Partnerships UK, a Treasury body...