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Share to Buy Live to host Homebuyers Day in Exeter

Share to Buy Live is set to host its inaugural Homebuyers Day: Exeter on Saturday 7th February, marking a new chapter in the organisation’s events programme and bringing affordable homeownership advice directly to local communities.

The free-to-attend event will bring together housing providers, legal experts, mortgage brokers, and homeownership specialists to help attendees better understand affordable routes onto the property ladder, including Shared Ownership. Confirmed housing providers include Sovereign Network Group (SNG), LiveWest, Centurion Place, Plymouth Community Homes...

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Cranbrook development welcomes triplets and twins

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...

Devon police dig for clues at home of serial killer Fred's West's friends

Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police were today digging up the garden at the former home of a paedophile couple, who knew serial killers Fred and Rose West.

The excavation is being carried out a property in Cullompton.

David Williams was jailed for life in 2015 and his wife Pauline for 12 years for putting 10 girls and boys through rape, sexual assault and beatings.

The couple became friends of the Wests in Gloucester in the 1980s. A police spokesman said: "Following intelligence received, Devon and Cornwall Police are undertaking excavation work at a property in...

Volunteers needed at Haytor on Sunday

Come along to Haytor this Sunday (8 May) and join Dartmoor National Park Ranger Simon Lee as he leads a team of volunteers to continue working on the popular Templer Way walking route near Haytor. The day runs from 10:30 until 3:30 and starts at the National Park Visitor Centre, Haytor.

The Templer Way follows the route by which granite was taken from the quarries in the Haytor area during the 1800s on an 18 mile journey toTeignmouth on the south coast.

A granite tramway was used to transport the stone down to Stover Canal from where it was shipped down to the docks at...

'Fast-track' BHS investigation ordered

An immediate investigation into the circumstances surrounding BHS going into administration has been ordered by the Business Secretary Sajid Javid.

Mr Javid has instructed the Insolvency Service to fast-track its investigation, which will also specifically consider the extent to which the conduct of the directors of BHS led to its insolvency.

He has asked that the investigation look at not only the conduct of the directors at the point of its insolvency, but also of any individuals who were previously directors and whether their actions may have caused detriment to its...

Driver dies after crashing into wall

The driver of a car involved in a collision near Teignmouth on Tuesday 19 April has died.

Oliver Patrick Daniel Galvin, 39 and from the Birmingham area, died shortly before 4am on Thursday 28 April 2016 at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth.

Officers were called to the scene of the collision shortly before 1am following reports of a single vehicle collision on the A381 Newton Road, near Bishopsteignton.

A silver Suzuki Ignis collided with a stone wall near the Metro Motors car sales garage and the vehicle rolled causing significant damage to the car.

Driver Oliver...

New Chiefs Cycling Club formed

Following the success of the first-ever European Cycle Challenge back in January, a new cycling club has been formed to carry on the fundraising efforts for years to come.

Exeter Chiefs Cycling has been formed to build on the success of this year’s challenge, which saw 23 riders and four support crew make the 485-mile route from Sandy Park to the Stade Chaban Delmas in Bordeaux, raising over £22,000 for the club’s official charity, Exeter Foundation.

The aim of the new club, details of which are to be announced shortly, is to build on the success of the Bordeaux trip and...

Hospiscare Will Fortnight 9-20 May

Saddened and upset by discovering her dad died alone in a bare, clinical hospital room, Jennifer Turner has included local charity Hospiscare in her Will.

Here she tells how this simple act has helped her, knowing she’s enabling other local people to face death with dignity, while supported by their family and end of life experts.

Jennifer’s story: “My dad died 30 years ago, aged 62. He was alone in a hospital room as there was no specialist end of life care. My mum was in a separate room and the rest of the family had to go home."

Now Jennifer has seen the care...

Mac’s medical miracle to feature on ITV

The inspirational story of a Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital patient who became trapped in a body which shakes uncontrollably is to feature in a flagship new ITV documentary this week [Thursday 5 May].

Retired Royal Marine and Falklands veteran James ‘Mac’ MacGregor, aged 68 from Woodbury in Devon, has battled increasingly violent tremors in his body for the past five years after suffering a fit while travelling around Europe with his wife Chez in 2007.

Over time the tremors have steadily taken over his body from head to toe and made it increasingly difficult for Mac -...

Devon County Show line-up revealed

The 121st Devon County Show was launched in style by The Countess of Arran and Show Secretary Ollie Allen at Southernhay House, Exeter.

In Spring sunshine the pair revealed a huge line-up of entertainment and the vital role Devon’s largest event plays in the life of the county.

“Every event likes to bill itself as having something for everyone, but few have quite such genuine appeal across the board as the Devon County Show,” said Ollie Allen.

“This is surely the only event that can cater for people who are interested in food, farming and having a lot of fun.”...

Dine on the wild side in East Devon

Experience a dinner with a difference by joining the East Devon District Council Countryside team and food foraging expert, Chris Holland for a Wild food forage and cook up from 6:30pm to 9pm on Friday May 13 at Holyford Woods and Thursday May 19 at Knapp Copse. Walk with Chris, who is a food foraging expert, through the countryside, looking out for various edible wild plants. Countryside Team Leader, Tim Dafforn said:

‘’What better way to earn your dinner than by foraging for it and preparing it yourself in the great outdoors of the East Devon countryside?’’ After you have enjoyed...

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Share to Buy Live to host Homebuyers Day in Exeter

Cranbrook development welcomes triplets and twins

Devon police dig for clues at home of serial killer Fred's West's friends

Volunteers needed at Haytor on Sunday

'Fast-track' BHS investigation ordered

Driver dies after crashing into wall

New Chiefs Cycling Club formed

Hospiscare Will Fortnight 9-20 May

Mac’s medical miracle to feature on ITV

Devon County Show line-up revealed

Dine on the wild side in East Devon

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