Homes & Gardens

Over 35,000 aspiring homeowners have been helped onto the property ladder through the Government’s Help to Buy schemes, including 3,941 in the South West, Kris Hopkins announced yesterday.

The Minister welcomed the key role this scheme is playing in the Government’s long-term economic plan, both helping people buy their own home but also boosting housebuilding and creating jobs in construction.

New figures today show that since the launch of Help to Buy 14 months ago, 2,871 people have bought newly-built homes through the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme. There have also...

Withycombe House, the former Hillcrest school in St John’s Road has been painstakingly restored to form luxurious homes as part of a new housing development by C G Fry & Son.

The multi award-winning independent developer is holding an open-weekend to view this magnificent house on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 June from 10am-4pm.

This is a unique opportunity for locals and visitors alike to view the Gothic style villa built c. 1850 which was Grade II listed in 1949 and retains many unique architectural features. Latterly the period manor was converted into a school for day...

The Labour party has retained control of Exeter City council following yesterday’s elections. Thirteen council seats were up for up for grabs in the election including seven from Labour, three from the Conservatives and two from the Liberal Democrats.

Labour gained two additional seats taking a ward from the Conservative and one wards from the Liberal Democrats.

Local Conservative group leader Yolanda Henson lost her seat in Polsloe to Labour's Christine Elizabeth Raybould-Gooding.

Following the election the Labour hold the majority with 27 Seats, Conservatives hold...

Gardeners wanting to rid their spring flowerbeds of pesky snails can ditch the beer traps and egg shells and instead develop a strong throwing arm. This is according to a new study published today, 16 May, in the journal Physica Scripta, which has used statistical models to show that removing snails out of the garden by a distance of over 20 metres or more is just as effective as simply killing the snails. According to the researchers, from Queen Mary University of London and The University of Exeter, their results prove that snails are part of larger colonies that live in the garden, and...