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According to diamond jewellery specialists, Angelic Diamonds, Exeter is among the UK's top cities for the unhappiest couples. They examined average monthly search data on searches relating to breaking up with a partner over the last year, such as, "How do I break up with somebody?". When the search data was computed as per 100,000 people, Exeter was found to be in 7th place with 31 total break up searches per 100,000 per month.

With so many unhappy relationships in Exeter, we thought we'd take a look at the two main causes or triggers that could be making your partner look for...

Six local projects have been awarded funding through Devon County Council’s Natural Capital Challenge Fund.

The £300,000 grant funding pilot scheme launched last year as part of Devon's £6 million recovery programme, which aims to provide help and support in four key areas: small and medium enterprises, employment and skills, the green recovery, and the hardest hit towns and communities. The Natural Capital Challenge Fund (NCCF) was created to stimulate the county’s post-Covid recovery through investment in the Natural Capital sector. The projects supported will contribute to job...

Devon County Council is advising people to take extra care when travelling this Friday morning (February 18) with Storm Eunice expected to hit the region in the early hours.

The south west is expected to be battered by gale force winds from midnight to mid-morning on Friday and the Met Office has issued a Yellow Wind Warning.

Winds in coastal areas are expected to be the strongest with gusts of 60-70 mph possible over a reasonably large area.

Gusts could reach as high as 80 mph, even inland, and Devon County Council is warning that this could cause travel...

​Taylor Wimpey Exeter recently helped pupils at St Martin’s Primary School in Cranbrook plant 10 new trees to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The donation from Taylor Wimpey was to support the school’s involvement in The Queen’s Green Canopy campaign, a unique tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee this year which invites people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee”.

Pupils worked together to plant the trees with the help of a Taylor Wimpey Sales Executive from the Cranbrook development.

The trees...