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A teenager from Exeter Chiefs’ HITZ programme has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award.

Ash Carter is one of three finalists shortlisted for the HITZ Best Rugby Performer award supported by Land Rover. This award will be presented at the HITZ Awards on 28 November.

Through the power of rugby, HITZ tackles some of the greatest challenges facing young people today like crime, mental health challenges and unemployment.

The HITZ Best Rugby Performer award, supported by Land Rover, recognises a young person for their progress and development in the sport of...

Headlines about celebrity “quickie” divorces belie the truth according to a leading South West family lawyer who believes that changes brought in in 2015 to simplify the divorce process are causing significant delays.

Andrew Barton, a partner at Stephens Scown LLP believes that the changes that came in in 2015 are having a crippling effect on couples looking to process their divorce quickly. He explains: “The new centralised court service came in for divorcing couples in April 2015, reducing 47 regional courts to just 11 divorce centres around the country. This has meant that all...

Palace Capital, the property investment company that focuses on commercial property outside London, announces that it has let the former Polestar Building (a 113,000 sq ft industrial/warehouse) on the Marsh Barton Trading Estate in Exeter.

The Company announced in its year end results that administrators had been appointed to its tenant occupying the Polestar Building, Polestar UK Print (“Polestar”), and that it was endeavouring to negotiate a 12-month licence from June of this year with the newly formed company that had purchased the assets of Polestar. This was in order to...

Devon and Cornwall Police and the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner are working with police forces across the South West to crack down on people using their mobile phones while driving.

It comes as figures from the RAC show that the number of motorists who illegally use mobile phones while at the wheel is rising.

1,714 motorists were surveyed and 31% of said they used a handheld phone behind the wheel. That compares with 8% in 2014.

The number of drivers who said they sent a message or posted on social media rose from 7% to 19%, while 14% said they...