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7th October 2014: The ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ is under unprecedented pressure to bail out dependent children at the expense of parents’ own retirement plans, wealth manager Brewin Dolphin can reveal.

An exclusive survey, carried out by YouGov on behalf of Brewin Dolphin, shows that the parents of today’s under 18s in the South of England are planning to delay retirement, compromise their lifestyle and dip into their hard earned pension pots and home equity to help out their children and grandchildren. 38% of all parents in the South of England believe that in their lifetime they...

There’s a lot to celebrate this week – both at the Holcim Awards in Moscow and at HLM’s 50th. Elsewhere, though, the industry is in the dock and a hideous building gets planning approval in Brum.

Taking shots

It’s not every day my hacks get to knock back vodka shots in a grand neo-classical Moscow building built in the time of Catherine the Great while overlooking the Kremlin, but that’s exactly the situation one of them found themselves enjoying last week. The journalist in question was a guest of Aggregate Industries, UK arm of Swiss building products giant Holcim, on...

There were celebrations in Alcombe, a hamlet in Dunster Parish this week as Magna West Somerset officially opened its latest housing scheme built by independent developer, C G Fry & Son. The development named Brackensfield comprises 33 homes for rent, with a mix of two, three and four bedroom houses as well as two bedroom bungalows.

C G Fry & Son built the properties to Level 3 of the Code for ‘Sustainable Homes’ standard. They are equipped with gas central heating. Michael Dear, commercial director for C G Fry & Son, said: “ We are delighted to have been part of this...

Guests were welcomed with wine and canapés at the exclusive awards ceremony of The Exeter Phoenix Exeter Contemporary Open 2014 now in its tenth year. Sponsored by Haines Watts Chartered Accountants.

The exhibition is the South West’s foremost contemporary art exhibition providing an important national platform for contemporary visual artists. and is open to the public as a free-entry exhibition at Exeter Phoenix from 12th September to 1st November 2014. The winner of the prestigious £1000 award presented by Ben de Cruz of Haines Watts was Belgium-based artist Hannah Murgatroyd...