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Leading local advice charity, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau, is welcoming an overall 39% decrease in repossession cases listed at Exeter County Court in the 3-month period ending 30th June 2015. This is in comparison with the same period last year.

Across all housing sectors, where a CAB adviser has assisted clients facing repossession, clients have avoided repossession in over 90% of cases.

Exeter City Council has provided financial support for this essential service.

Steve Barriball, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau Chief Executive, said: “We have at least one...

Lord Sugar may be king of The Apprentice, but a Devon dealership has been doing its bit over the past three decades to help local people into work.

JFE Exeter Nissan, part of the Wellington Motor Group, currently has seven team members who started out as apprentices – and are still working at the Marsh Barton Trading Estate.

EV Technician Steve Horwell is the longest-serving, having been employed at the dealership for 28 years. He helped train Service Manager Pete Lascelles, who joined shortly after him.

Elsewhere, Jamie Kennedy and James Manning have chalked up 11...

Fourteen families have moved into new ecologically friendly, high tech homes built by Exeter City Council as part of a project to make the most of underused spaces in the city and create affordable housing for local people.

Silverberry Close and Barberry Close provide a total of 14 new three-bedroom properties, including two fully wheelchair accessible homes.

These rented houses are now providing comfortable living space for families who were waiting for a suitable place to live on Exeter’s Housing Register.

The buildings are designed to be as ecological, low energy...

A second man has been arrested by police in connection with the hit and run death of a pedestrian on the A380 on Sunday.

Police have arrested a 58-year-old from Newton Abbot, on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and he awaits questioning at Torquay custody centre.

A 51-year old man has already been bailed pending further enquiries until the 2nd November following the death of a pedestrian on the A380 on Sunday 26 July.

Police were called at around 1.30am following reports of a collision involving a pedestrian on the A380 Torquay Road near to its...