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A new survey has found that the average Brit will spend £1000 on spur-of-the-moment purchases every year, with nearly 60% of them admitting to as many as five impulse purchases per week, a staggering 260 snap purchases a year.

Online shopping has increased the temptation for impulse buyers according to the survey, with the UK spending £200 more online than in-store on impulse buys. Millennials are amongst the biggest culprits, with a quarter of 22 – 25-year-olds admitting to having spent over £1000 on rash purchases.

The spending habits research, conducted by St. Albans-...

Exeter Scouts and Guides will be “Riding along on the crest of a wave” again this Easter, as Exeter Gang Show returns to the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter from the 5th to the 8th April 2017.

Now in its 33rd year, the show will be packed full of popular songs, expert choreography and laugh out load sketches, and has everything to keep audience members of any age entertained.

The cast of almost 70 Cubs, Brownies, Scouts, Guides, Explorer Scouts, Rangers and Leaders aged nine and over have been rehearsing intensively since the beginning of the year.

This year's show is...

The results of a shocking investigation by The Donkey Sanctuary reveals mass-scale suffering of donkeys caught up in global trading of their skins to sustain the demand for ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine that relies on gelatin from the hides.

In the first comprehensive study of the trade, the charity has discovered that as many as 10 million donkeys are at risk and it now calls for an immediate halt to the trade until it can be proven to be sustainable and humane.

The Donkey Sanctuary’s ‘Under the Skin’ investigative report reveals that the trade has led to an...

Housing and homelessness charity Shelter is appealing for help to fund its free helpline after seeing a surge in demand from the South West, with over 43,000 calls received in the past year alone.

In a sign of the deepening housing crisis, the number of calls to the charity’s helpline from the South West - which is part-funded by M&S - has increased by 12% with a call now received nearly every five and a half minutes. Worryingly, nearly one in five cases in the South West dealt with by the Shelter helpline in the past year were people who were homeless or within 28 days of...