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A hardworking legal team from The Family Law Company is celebrating after winning the coveted Team of the Year Award at the inaugural DASLS Awards.

The team found out that they were the winners during the awards ceremony held at Sandy Park.

The Family Law Company Director Jane Chanot who heads up the team, which is based in Exeter and Plymouth said: "I was completely taken by surprise and extremely proud when we were called up to accept the award.

"There was an amazing number of legal luminaries at the event, and we were all rather in awe. To be amongst the award...

On 16th March, Families for Children, along with many adoption agencies across England, will be opening their doors simultaneously to enquiring adopters and hosting a Big Adoption Day, a national adoption information event.

There will be over 30 events being held across England and their aim is to reinforce the message that adopters continue to be needed for our most vulnerable children in the care system.

Prospective adopters attending a Big Adoption Day will have the opportunity to meet adoption experts in an informal and friendly environment. As well as being able to ask...

WINNING top awards for their produce has secured local farmers Neil and Sally Grigg a feature in a prestigious national magazine.

Neil and Sally, who run a farm near Broadclyst, are featured in this week’s Country Life magazine.

The couple are tenants on a 400 acre National Trust farm which is part of the Killerton Estate, where they have been farming their own herd of Red Ruby cattle since 2007. This month’s Country Life, features them talking about their entry into farming, following careers as an accountant and rural surveyor.

Neil said: ‘We always wanted to move...

Paul McCartney once famously said ‘If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarians’… but of course they don’t, and most people remain unaware of the lives and deaths of animals bred for food. But now all that is changing with Animal Equality becoming the first animal protection group in the world to transport people inside factory farms and slaughterhouses via virtual reality technology.

Exeter will be the first stop for the international organisation’s iAnimal project, a virtual reality experience filmed over the past 18 months inside pig farms in the UK, Germany...