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Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter today admitted he won’t be rushed into bringing in emergency cover, even though he is yet to hear the full extent of Mitch Lees’ bicep injury.

The Australian-born lock was forced off during the first half of last week’s Aviva Premiership defeat against Northampton Saints at Franklin’s Gardens. Lees has since undergone scans this week and – according to Baxter – the initial prognosis does not look promising.

“Mitch is having some scans this week and it is potentially a bad injury. We will know later in the week,” said Baxter.

“We...

Exeter accountants and financial planners Old Mill are doubling the number of people owning an equity stake in the business. There are already 21 shareholders in the business but from 1 January 2016, 23 further members of staff acquired equity taking the total number of shareholders up to 44 – almost a fifth of the 250 workforce. Simon Cole, Board member and one of the co-founders of Old Mill, commented “Many firms in our profession have a business model that sees them restrict their ownership all too often to a small select group of individuals. As a consequence, staff who work hard for...

The Met Office has issued another weather warning as heavy rain is set to return to the region this evening.

A band of heavy rain will move in from the west, arriving in Cornwall late on Wednesday afternoon, then affecting the rest of southwest England and south Wales through the evening and overnight, before clearing from most areas towards dawn on Thursday.

Forecasters are warning of the likelihood of some flooding, with some travel disruption possible and flooding of roads.

The warning is valid from 4pm today (Tuesday 6 January) until 8am tomorrow.

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People in Exeter who are receiving a single person’s discount on their council tax but shouldn’t be, are being urged to let the City Council know about their change in circumstances.

Those who receive a 25 per cent reduction on their bill as single occupancy residents will soon be checked to make sure that the reductions are correct.

The checks form part of the Council’s measures to prevent and detect fraud and protect the public purse.

Capita Local Government Services has been appointed to carry out a comprehensive review of 18,000 single person discounts. They...