Acceleration in house price growth in the South West continues with 63% more respondents seeing a rise in prices over the last three months, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey. This is the highest level since April 2002.
The South West region, along with Yorkshire, is also the most confident of price rises in the near term, with 52% more respondents expecting to see a rise in prices over the next three months. Across the UK, the RICS price indicator reached a 16 month high in August, with a net balance of 53% more respondents reporting price rises and firm...
Rugby Legend Tim Stimpson Pulls Pints for Punters at the Double Locks, Exeter
He’s enjoyed a fantastic career including time with the Newcastle Falcons, Leicester Tigers, Leeds Tykes and England, but now rugby star Tim Stimpson is heading to Exeter to pull pints for the locals.
On the 15th September, the Double Locks will be hosting a Players At The Pumps evening raising money for the children’s charity of rugby Wooden Spoon.
Guests can have their pint pulled by Tim on the evening, before enjoying a burger and a pint followed by a question and answer with the player...
ugandabox is an exciting new Devon project set up this summer. It has sent over 150 kilos of kids and babies clothing, blankets, medical supplies and toys from East Devon families over to a children's crisis centre called Potter's Village in Uganda.
ugandabox's founder, Esther Apsey has close connections with Potters Village, as her Aunty and Uncle, Sue and Mike Hughes run the centre - as a GP and Director - and they have been there for nearly 3 years now.
The community around Kisoro where the crisis centre is based is very rural and there is high incidence of child, baby...
The very first set is to be revealed tomorrow on Exeter’s official MONOPOLY board. It’s a set of sports landmarks in the city, led by Exeter Chiefs. The board will be revealed in spectacular style next month, when it is launched in Exeter city centre. To mark the launch a gigantic five foot by foot square replica of the board will be unfurled in the city centre as MR MONOPOLY – the board’s icon – hands out signed MONOPOLY dollars to shoppers. If you land on The Chiefs – whose ground will be showcased all over the world when the Rugby World Cup 2015 kicks off later this month - it will set...
Police officers and staff in Devon and Cornwall are a shade more colourful this week for a unique charity drive which has raised £12,000.
Many police officers and staff have swapped traditional epaulettes for bright pink ones and are sporting pink lanyards on their Force ID badges for a week [7-13 September].
The uniform change is part of a Forcewide charity drive in support Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer’s chosen annual charities.
More than 1,300 employees have so far bought pink epaulettes and lanyards from their salaries to support Macmillan Cancer Support, Cancer...
East Devon District Council says it is keen to play its part in the national programme to relocate refugees says East Devon A spokesman told the Daily: "The process of assisting refugees is led by Governmental policy, and, in the case of Devon, normally co-ordinated locally by the County Council. Devon County Council is the relevant social services authority and it is anticipated that they will play a key part in any local offer of support. "It would appear that government are looking to build on the existing Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme to target assistance to 20,000...
There is still time to sign-up to The Exeter Wheelers Hill Climb Festival, a charity team cycling event taking place on Saturday 19 September − fundraising in aid of local charity the Exeter Deaf Academy.
Up to 100 cyclists are expected to take part in the event, which will see participants make a mad dash to the top of the city's Stoke Hill – approximately 1.2 miles long with an average gradient of 7%, and recently conquered by cycling champion Sir Bradley Wiggins.
Included in the line-up is 2015 Tour of Britain competitor George Pym and Harry Luxton, the reigning...
Anyone who’s ever been the victim of a crime, no matter how small it is perceived to be, will know that it’s not simply the immediate effects of the crime itself that are felt. The impact can last for days, months and years, and can affect people far beyond the immediate victims, and manifest itself in many ways.
Often the judicial process can be lengthy and complex, and even if the perpetrator is convicted, it does not always lead to a satisfactory conclusion for the victim, who often has many questions that remain unanswered.
