Homes & Gardens

Once you have decided you are going to sell your home, don’t you just wish you could fast forward to the moment you are sat in your new house with a glass of wine and a takeaway? But, unfortunately, you can’t and the first and arguably highest hurdle you need to get over is actually selling your current home - which can be much easier said than done.

Your house can be on the market for months and months – you might not even know why, so what can you do about it? Well, you could really speed up the process by filling your details into the valuation form on We Buy Any House and...

Two years ago, retired Exeter policeman Brian Kendall had to have his leg amputated after it went septic following an operation below the knee. Along with the obvious emotional and physical distress it caused the then 73-year-old, it meant that he and his wife, Mary, had to make some major changes to their home.

Confined to a wheelchair, Brian could not use the upstairs of their house for the first year so the couple had to put a bed in the living room and turn the space into a bedroom. After another 12 months, he was able, with the help of Mary, to manage the stairs sitting down,...

Teignbridge District Council is holding a free open evening for anyone interested in letting property.

The event covers all areas of buy to let and brings together experts and industry providers under one roof, giving landlords the opportunity to network and gain all the information they need to run tenancies effectively.

Open to all Teignbridge landlords, the free open evening takes place on Thursday 19 May at Old Forde House from 4.30pm-8pm.

No booking is required, with free parking and refreshments provided.

Featuring over 30 exhibitors, trade stands and...

Wyevale Garden Centres is warning the gardeners of Britain to prepare for an increase of supersized slugs this spring, thanks to our unseasonably mild winter.

Due to a change in recent weather patterns and a lack of hard frost, our slug population is booming. Unlike snails, slugs are active above 5°c and Britain’s mild winter means they’ve been awake for a longer season than usual and therefore able to reproduce all winter – at a much faster rate than usual – the result of which is a population explosion. As these sleepless slugs are laying between 20 and 100 eggs a time, one cubic...