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The Family Law Company’s grandparents’ specialist Stephen Sowden is to give a talk at a seminar in London on April 14.

Stephen, who is a Director of the company, has been asked to speak in his capacity as a Trustee of the Grandparents Plus. His talk is entitled ‘There’s No-one Quite Like Grandma’.

“Over the years I have become very aware that the important role of grandparents is often sorely neglected during and after a divorce, for example,” explained Stephen.

“For a grandparent to lose contact with their grandchildren for whatever reason, is a traumatic...

Devon and Cornwall Police arrested twelve people for a variety of offences connected to the Exeter City versus Plymouth Argyle football match this weekend (Saturday 2nd April).

One man has been charged with breaching the public order act, two men received cautions and a further nine men have been bailed pending further enquiries and will be attending Heavitree Station at a later date.

Chief Inspector Richard Hooper-Bennett said: “For a crowd of around 8,000 people, to report than we had just 12 arrests reflects well on the day as this is a very small number.

“It was...

Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival returns to Powderham Castle with some of the country’s best plant specialists, gardening stars and plenty of delicious local food, craft, live music and fun.

Gardens come in all sizes and whether you have an acre or a window box, a bare square of earth or a shady spot, you can grow a beautiful garden. Let your creativity take root at Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle and soak up inspiration from amazing and colourful nurseries, demonstrations and gardening experts. Nowhere else in the South West can you find such diversity of...

Illuminating fishing nets is a cost-effective means of dramatically reducing the number of sea turtles getting caught and dying unnecessarily, conservation biologists at the University of Exeter have found.

Dr Jeffrey Mangel, a Darwin Initiative research fellow based in Peru, and Professor Brendan Godley, from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University’s Penryn Campus, were part of a team of researchers who found that attaching green battery powered light-emitting diodes (LED) to gillnets used by a small-scale fishery reduced the number of green turtle deaths by 64...