Family Life

For many people it will be a stressful start to the New Year, as thousands of people pick up the phone to a lawyer to start divorce proceedings.

The post-Christmas and New Year phenomenon is so well established in legal circles that it has become known as ‘Divorce Day’.

And one of the country’s top divorce lawyers is warning couples to steer clear of so called “DIY divorces” as the motivation to save money on divorce can actually lead to couples losing out significantly financially in the long term. Liz Allen from Stephens Scown LLP in Exeter has received the top ranking...

Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park is pleased to announce it now offers the largest indoor play offering in Exeter and East Devon.

With over 75,000 square feet of indoor play and adventure, the park is not only open all winter for the first time in 25 years, but has some fantastic treats in store for guests of all ages this winter season.

Guests are invited to join Buddy Bear on his weekday winter adventures, with storytelling, meet and greet sessions, arts and crafts and soft play.

The family run park has something to make parents and grandparents smile too, the...

A local charity is offering people ideas for a wild Christmas with a difference.

Leading conservation charity Devon Wildlife Trust has developed a series of ideas for ‘wild Christmas escapes’ and is urging people to spend just a small part of the festive season and get away from the excesses and stresses of this time of year.

Devon Wildlife Trust’s Steve Hussey explained the idea: "Despite all the merry making Christmas can bring with it a series of challenges to our health and well-being. And if this seems a bit Scrooge-like then which of us can really say that we haven’t...

Nearly half of the UK’s 200,000 grandparents and kinship carers who are bringing up relatives’ children in traumatic circumstances face stigma and discrimination, often from public officials, with their children bullied and excluded from activities and many carers forced to give up their jobs, according to the first survey of its kind.

The survey Disadvantage, discrimination, reslience: the lives of kinship families reveals that:

*43% of kinship carers report having been stigmatised, discriminated against or treated rudely or differently because they are raising a relatives...