Homes & Gardens

Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) is celebrating Dementia Awareness Week (Sunday 15 to Saturday 21 May) with a dementia-friendly art session and a slideshow highlighting the museum’s monthly programme of events.

RAMM aims to be a welcoming museum to all its visitors. Its dementia-friendly programme – Living Each Season – provides regular opportunities for people with memory problems and their carers to do something enjoyable together.

Photographs projected in the courtyard will bring to life the steps being taken alongside local partner organisations to make...

If you visit the new housing development in Cranbrook, you might be forgiven for thinking you’re seeing double – or even triple!

For Persimmon Homes’ Galileo scheme is proving to be a hotbed of multiple births, with a set of triplets living just doors away from a pair of twins.

The first families are now well settled at the new development.

And they include Steven Sheward and Emma Rosier, who are the proud parents of triplets, and Daniel Hooper and Laura Winsor, who have had twins.

After a difficult, sleep-deprived start, Steven and Emma are now getting to...

Everyone who owns or looks after land of any size will be encouraged to sign a new Devon Pollinators’ Pledge, being launched this week (Friday 29 April) by the Devon Local Nature Partnership (LNP).

From window boxes, to gardens, allotments, orchards, parks and fields, the aim of the pledge is to encourage everyone to make practical changes where they can to enhance local biodiversity.

The Devon LNP will be launching the Pledge at its conference, ‘What Does Nature Do For Devon’, this Friday.

The Pledge will ask people to sign up to one or more of the following...

Typical first time buyers will need to earn £51k a year by 2020, new research by housing and homelessness charity Shelter shows. This is more than 30% more than the £38k needed for a typical first time buyer’s mortgage today. On top of this they would need a typical deposit of £47,000 to keep up with rocketing house prices in the region, which are projected to rise to £236,000 over the next four years. The research looked at the salary and deposit needed for the average first time buyer today, and calculated what they would be in 2020 if they grew in line with projected increases in house...