Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau, says that too many payday lenders are damning people to debt by failing to carry out adequate checks to make sure borrowers can afford to repay the loan.
Based on a survey between January and July 2013, 6 out of 10 borrowers who borrowed from a payday lender told the charity that the lender did not check whether the loan was affordable.
The survey of 57 clients with payday loans from 25 different payday lenders also found that borrowers were further let down by lenders as:
• 8 of 10 lenders did not offer to freeze interest and charges...
Consumers in Devon could be entitled to compensation if they have lost money as a result of their dealings with any one of several failed financial firms that Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has declared in default.
FSCS is the UK’s statutory compensation scheme for customers of regulated financial services firms. A declaration of default means FSCS is satisfied the firm is unable to pay claims for compensation made against it. FSCS does not charge individual consumers for using its service.
The Scheme has already started paying compensation in respect of the...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has called on his side to “front up” for their final pre-season test against Glasgow Warriors at Sandy Park tomorrow (3pm).
With warm-up victories over Scarlets (23-15) and Bristol (51-7) already secured in the past fortnight, the Chiefs will be looking to maintain their 100 per cent record against the visiting Scotsmen.
With just over a week to go until Exeter’s Aviva Premiership opener at Northampton Saints, Baxter hopes to use this latest work-out as the perfect preparation tool ahead of their 2013-14 campaign.
Emergency crews were called to a petrol station in Rockbeare near Exeter today after a car crashed in to two pumps.
The incident happened at just past midnight. No one was trapped and one casualty was transported to hospital by ambulance.
A fire appliance from Middlemoor attended and used a foam jet as a precautionary measure and made the vehicle safe.
At 2.41am, Police recontacted the Fire Service to reattend the incident as more fuel had spilt as the pumps were being removed by contractors for repair. One fire appliance from Danes Castle Exeter attended.
Devon based artist Diane Bailey is proud to have received a BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 Award. She reached the finals with not one but two paintings, one of which went on to be voted overall winner in the category British Mammals. There were a record-breaking number of entries this year -1,407 - and very high standard, but eventually the first round judges reduced the original entries to just 122 paintings including two by Diane. “There was strong competition, and given the extremely high calibre of work from some very well-known artists, I was honoured to reach the finals, and...
The Exeter Picturehouse has announced a new season of live broadcasts by satellite from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Tickets for a brand new season of ten live productions from the Royal Opera House on the big screen at the Exeter Picturehouse are now on general sale.
The programme of performances for the 2013/14 season:
Tuesday 17 September, 7.15pm The Royal Opera: Turandot
Wednesday 16 October, 7.15pm The Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
Monday 4 November, 5.45pm The Royal Opera: Les Vêpres Siciliennes
Featuring killer one-liners delivered at break neck speed from a rake-thin ginger haired misfit in a myriad of voices, Andrew Lawrence, fresh from BBC1′s Live At The Apollo, and his own BBC Radio 4 series How Did We End Up Like This?, brings a whole new show to the Comedy Hall in Tiverton for the start of his ‘There’s No Escape’ tour.
The suited and booted Lawrence, who plays on his ‘creepy’ looks (he’s not really creepy looking, just charmingly self-deprecating with an instantly recognisable face) seems not even to pause for breath as he works himself into a rage about life’s...
As hordes of screaming ‘Directioners’ prepare for the UK release of One Direction: This Is Us 3D, Vue Entertainment has ordered 20,000 pairs of earplugs for the army of parents and chaperones caught up in the midst of this modern day Beatle-mania.
Available across all 82 Vue cinemas nationwide, the complimentary earplugs will ensure that accompanying chaperones can enjoy the film without being worried by the high-levels of expected screaming and shouting in the auditoriums during the screenings.
Humans are capable of screaming as loud as 120 decibels, which is the same as...
