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On Friday 9th December 2016, La La Choirs held their second annual ‘CLIC for Christmas’ concert at Exeter Cathedral.

Performing to a sold-out audience, they started the festive season off with a bang with a selection of Christmas favourites such as the Perry Como classic, ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’ and the Louis Armstrong hit ‘Wonderful World’. The concert was their second annual fundraiser for CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families. Through ticket sales and generous donations on the night, sponsorship from...

Mr and Mrs Walter and Elsie Nicholls, residents at RMBI care home Cadogan Court in Exeter, celebrated 70 years of marriage on 4 January 2017. Residents and staff gathered in the Home's dining room to celebrate the occasion with musical entertainment by a band with banjos and a special lunch. The couple's son Jeff and his wife Sue visited to join the celebrations and supplied the Longhorn beef from their local farm. Everyone tucked into the lovely meal and enjoyed some wine and coffee afterwards. Walter and Elsie received a special card from the Queen congratulating them on their...

See the world anew and discover hope for the future says Danny Dorling as his TEDxExeter talk is viewed over 1 million times on TED.com.

Danny’s talk has now been viewed over 1 million times on TED.com by a global audience and many more people have heard about the constant, incremental changes for the better that rarely feature in the print and broadcast media.

What does the world look like when you map it using data? In his TEDxExeter talk, Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are). social geographer Danny Dorling invites us to see the world anew, demonstrating...

Despite growth in housing sales faltering across the UK as a whole, the South West reported continued improvement in sales, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveys (RICS) Residential Market Survey for December 2016.

While the majority of the UK saw a fall in sales in December, the South West saw 16% more chartered surveyors reporting a rise in sales last month; however figures for predicted sales over the next three months marked a noticeable slow down with 12% of respondents anticipating a fall. Whilst respondents anticipate a slower start to 2017, the survey...