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A cleaning company director who scammed the elderly by offering to clean their carpets for a bargain price before massively hiking up the cost has been given a 12-month suspended sentence.

At Exeter Crown Court on Wednesday Adam Joseph Vallier, 34, of Hannington Road, Pokesdown, Bournemouth, was also ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service.

Vallier had been found guilty of unfair trading and fraud after a five-day trial on September 23.

During sentencing Recorder A S Vaitilingam QC praised investigators from Devon and Somerset Trading Standards for...

People who may have used the Underground Passages to shelter from the Blitz are being asked to help produce a short film.

Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the Exeter Blitz of 1942. To commemorate these events, Exeter’s Underground Passages plans to produce a short documentary about wartime Exeter and the night-time Baedeker raids the city suffered.

Staff at the Passages are attempting to contact anyone who can remember Exeter during these years, particularly anyone who used the passages as an air-raid shelter. They are hoping to conduct living memory interviews with...

A short film telling the story of Exeter Cathedral has been nominated for a BAFTA Children’s Award. “An Introduction to Exeter Cathedral” was announced as a nominee by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) yesterday, ahead of the awards ceremony which takes place in November. The film has been nominated in the primary learning category, and although it is intended and much loved by visiting school groups it has since proved to be so popular that it is now routinely shown inside the Cathedral for visitors of all ages. The piece was commissioned by the Cathedral’s education...

SMEs in South West are owed an average of £99,000 in outstanding invoices, according to the latest Business in Britain report from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.

This is an increase of 32 per cent since the last Business in Britain report in January 2016, with 21 per cent of firms citing late payments as the biggest cause of cashflow problems. The report also found that a fifth (21 per cent) of firms in the South West are currently owed more than £200,000 in outstanding invoices, up from 18 per cent in January. The issue of late payments is also likely to persist into 2017, with a...