Near term expectations for South West house prices turned slightly negative for the first time since 2013 according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.
The survey shows house prices in central London falling while prices are continuing to climb modestly across the rest of the UK. In the South West 25% more respondents said prices had risen rather than fallen over the last three months. This figure has fallen in each month since February when 73% more respondents reported a rise rather than a fall in prices.
A study commissioned by Devon County Council has looked into the reasons why some children miss school due to anxiety.
The findings are helping the Council provide practical advice and information to schools in order that they can better support students, enabling them to keep up their attendance.
Educational Psychologists conducted the study as part of a wider exploration of ‘anxiety based school avoidance’ across Devon.
Their report acknowledges that students miss school, or find it hard to attend, for various reasons such as following a period of illness or...
An exhibition of beautiful early 19th-century illustrations of Indian flora exploring the plants’ usage in traditional Ayurvedic and modern medicine.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the East India Company controlled much of the Indian subcontinent. Keen to exploit and export valuable natural commodities, the Company set out to record the flora of India and commissioned Indian artists to create detailed botanical illustrations.
Many of the plants were known through their use in Ayurvedic medicine. One of the world’s oldest medicinal systems, it has been practiced...
Exeter Respect returns to the city on Saturday 11th June and Sunday 12th June 2016. Our diversity festival has grown dramatically along with the diversity of the city’s population, and provides a great, safe, space in which more communities than ever before can come and celebrate and share their cultures.
Exeter Respect is the city's annual celebration of diversity where we use the performing and creative arts to engage the wider community in sayign no to racism and all forms of prejudice. The Respect ethos is a simple one: racism and prejudice often spring from fear, and fear is...
In growing their national network, Prosperity Financial Advisors & Stockbrokers have chosen Exeter as their Business Centre for the South West.
“Our research told us that Exeter is up there in the UK top ten of places to do business, “ said Prosperity’s Hampshire-based Managing Director, Mark Newman.
Mark was in Exeter to open the Company’s new office at the Matford Business Centre in Marsh Barton. “It’s an attractive town that combines a business buzz with a friendly feel where people know each other. To us, that’s very important, as our whole business philosophy is...
Rangers at Devon County Council’s county parks are celebrating after receiving top awards.
Visitors to the Grand Western Canal Country Park and Local Nature Reserve and Stover Country Park have heaped praise on the countryside attractions, earning them both a Certificate of Excellence from customer review website Trip Advisor.
Now in its sixth year, the prestigious award celebrates hospitality businesses that have achieved consistently great traveller reviews on TripAdvisor over the past year.
Stover County Park is rated number one place to visit in Newton Abbot,...
WBW Soliciors have recently promoted two of their Exeter solicitors and hired a new Private Client Partner. Promotions include Susannah Bower, Private Client Department, who has been promoted from solicitor to associate and Laura Brutti, tax and trusts specialist, promoted from solicitor to associate. Victoria Smyth has joined the firm as a partner in the private client department specializing in trusts, wills, estate planning and tax. She has joined from Thrings Solicitors.
Devon and Cornwall Police’s latest domestic abuse campaign warns potential offenders of the consequences of letting their emotions get the better of them during the Euro 16 football tournament.
Statistics show that domestic abuse increases during the summer, especially when a large sporting event taking place.
Police ask people to be aware of their behaviour and mood when watching the football. Emotions run high and frustration and competitiveness can cause tempers to flare. Police warn people that they could face a one month ban from seeing their families if they use or...
The de Savary owned Cary Arms in Babbacombe Bay has been awarded its first AA Rosette award as well as a Silver Accolade for Excellence.
The double award win is a sign of the very high quality of the five star inn’s cuisine and its general outstanding levels of excellence. Cary Arms impressively retained its five star rating with a score of 88%, underlining the consistent high level of service and hospitality over the past year. The AA Rosette has been awarded for the remarkable cuisine offered at the hotel, focused on local produce and seasonality. Guests can expect superb Devon...
Peter Millett, a well-known County Probation Officer who worked in Mid and East Devon, Exeter Prison and was one of a number of outstanding Probation Liaison Officers to the Crown Court, has died aged 90. A wise and charming man of great integrity, he was an important influence on those he came into contact with during his twenty years with the then Devon Probation Service. He epitomised all that was best in that role: exercising a disciplined discretion while encouraging someone who might potentially be dangerous to face up to their responsibilities to both courts and the community....
