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Are Dating Apps Going the Way of the Dodo?

Whitney Wolfe Herd built Bumble into a company worth billions. Her platform gave women control over the first message and reshaped how millions of people approached online romance. So when she told an audience that dating apps are "feeling like a thing of the past," people paid attention. The founder of one of the largest dating platforms in the world had openly questioned the future of her own industry.

The numbers behind her statement tell a familiar story to anyone watching tech stocks. Bumble's share price sat above $75 when the company went public. It now hovers around $8....

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Straight Outta Cullompton! NWA star to play city gig

Hip hop legend and founder member of NWA, DJ Yella has announced he is to perform in Exeter.

The gig has been organised by local gig promoter David Meylan, who brought Snoop Dogg to the city in 2014.

Dave said Snoop’s people put a word in for him after the success of his Devon show.

He added: “Securing DJ Yella has taken a lot of hard work and many phone calls but I am delighted that he has agreed to put on a set in Exeter.

“I said when Snoop came that we can punch above our weight and this booking shows that was no fluke.” DJ Yella’s profile has been raised...

Death of public sector grants will damage people and communities

As Local Authorities finalise budgets, a new campaign calls for a halt to the dangerous decline in grant funding by public bodies to charities and community groups.

Available data on public sector grants shows that grants declined from £6 billion in 2003 to £2.2 billion in 2013, and are likely to have even declined further since then.

If the decline continues at the current rate, grants will have all but disappeared by the next General Election, having been largely replaced by short-term, inflexible and bureaucratic contracts.

Debra Allcock-Tyler, Chief Executive of...

Sir Terry Wogan dies after short illness

Sir Terry Wogan has died his family said today.

He had been battling cancer and was 77.

Sir Terry who presented a weekly show on Radio 2, had a presenting career spanning more than 50 years, from his chatshow Wogan on BBC1 to the Eurovision Song Contest and Blankety Blank.

In 1969, he began a daily show on Radio 1 and 2, taking over the morning show on Radio 2 three years later.

He presented this until 1984, shortly before starting his thrice-weekly chatshow Wogan on BBC1, which ran for the next seven years.

He returned to Radio 2 in 1993 as host of...

Tributes paid to man killed in Devon crash

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man died following a collision near Barnstaple.

John Spurling (pictured), 58, from Barnstaple, who was driving the car invovled and was the only occupant in the vehicle, died at the scene.

The car collided with a hedge and rolled on the B3232 between Charlacottt Cross and Prospect Corner near Newton Tracey at around 11.30am on Sunday 24 January.

The car involved was a blue and red DRK, a two-seated and three-wheeler open-top vehicle. No other vehicles were involved in the collision.

John’s family have paid tribute...

Search for missing dog Barney who fled fatal crash

Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses after a fatal road traffic collision on the A374 at Torpoint in which a woman pensioner was killed on Monday evening, January 25, 2016.

The collision occurred at around 5.15pm near to Anthony House when the pedestrian 72-year-old Jennifer Lowden, from Torpoint, was involved in a collision with a red Nissan Micra car.

Ms Lowden was treated at the scene by air ambulance paramedics, but died a short time later.

Police would like to speak to anyone who may have witnessed the collision or been in the area of the A374 at the...

Search is on to find Britain's best volunteers

Gabby Logan and Together Mutual Insurance search for Britain’s ‘Community Initiative of the Year’ and ‘Community Hero of the Year’ celebrating local volunteers with national prizes of £25,000 per category Today, TV favourite Gabby Logan launches ‘Britain Has Spirit’, a new campaign searching for Britain’s best individual and group volunteers. Gabby is calling on the British public to nominate their local shining stars, who selflessly give up time volunteering for nothing in return. Recent research of 2,000 Brits1 reveals that our sense of community is declining, with nearly half of those...

£5m for councils to stop rogue landlords

Councils across the country are to receive a £5m cash boost to tackle rogue landlords in their area, Housing Minister Brandon Lewis announced today.

Forty eight councils will share the funding so they can take on the irresponsible landlords that force tenants to live in squalid and dangerous properties, making their lives a misery.

The cash will also allow councils to root out more ‘beds in sheds’. Since 2011 nearly 40,000 inspections have taken place in properties with over 3,000 landlords facing further enforcement action or prosecution.

The funding will allow...

Bluebird Care Exeter rated outstanding in CQC Inspection

Bluebird Care Exeter, an award winning provider of homecare has been rated OUTSTANDING for ‘Well Led’ and GOOD overall following a comprehensive inspection by the CQC in September.

Man drowns trying to rescue dog from sea

A man has died after trying to rescue his dog from the sea on New Year's Day.

The emergency sevices were alerted to people in difficulty in the water off Portmellon near Mevagissey at around 11am.

Two people were subsequently recovered from the sea.

One was recovered by a member of the public and brought to shore, the second person was recovered from the sea by the Coastguard helicopter and was taken to hospital.

The RNLI Lifeboat from Fowey and Mevagissey Coastguard Rescue Team were also in attendance.

A spokesman for Devon & Cornwall Police...

Landed gentry could help solve housing crisis

Landowners behind England’s 5,000 largest rural estates should be called upon to release land for affordable housing, according to The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

The RICS Rural Policy Paper, published today, sets out a number of recommendations as to how central and local Government could better manage rural land and support countryside communities, including offering measures to encourage large landowners to release space on their estates for eight or more affordable houses. This might include partial inheritance tax exemptions, allowing heirs to avoid paying...

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Are Dating Apps Going the Way of the Dodo?

Straight Outta Cullompton! NWA star to play city gig

Death of public sector grants will damage people and communities

Sir Terry Wogan dies after short illness

Tributes paid to man killed in Devon crash

Search for missing dog Barney who fled fatal crash

Search is on to find Britain's best volunteers

£5m for councils to stop rogue landlords

Bluebird Care Exeter rated outstanding in CQC Inspection

Man drowns trying to rescue dog from sea

Landed gentry could help solve housing crisis

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