The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called for the Government to commit to a joint solution to ensure long-term affordable flood insurance for high-risk households.
The ABI has described the current state of talks aimed at reaching an agreement as being at an impasse. This follows the Government’s refusal to consider providing a temporary overdraft facility to a proposed not-for-profit special insurance fund for 200,000 high-risk households which will otherwise struggle to get affordable household insurance when the current arrangements come to an end next year....
National Rail have provided links to some photos to inform passengers the extent to the flooding, which is currently causing disruption to South West rail services. Some services resume, but This is the latest update:
All the changes listed below are showing correctly for today in the real time Journey Planner ,
The following video and images show the extent of some of the flooding:
November has seen the city make history at a very special event at The Guildhall, which took place on Thursday 15th November 2012. The event honoured the members of 307 (Polish) Squadron RAF who protected the skies over Exeter during the Second World War.
Local historian, Michael Parrott, who is also a 'Friend of Higher Cemetery', was researching the history of the cemetery's two chapels when he was shown a wooden memorial to a 307 Pilot tucked away on the wall of an unused corner of one of the chapels.
He managed to obtain a translation of the memorial...
Detectives are investigating a robbery that took place on Sunday (25th November) at a bookmakers in Dawlish. The crime was committed between 9.15 and 9.20pm, when a man walked into the shop on The Strand and threatened a member of staff before making off with a substantial amount of money.
He is described as being a white man in his 30s to 40s, 5ft 10 inches tall and was wearing a black hooded coat, dark blue jumper and dark coloured tracksuit bottoms. He also wore sandy coloured boots or trainers. As he left the shop, he may have been in company with a woman in her 20s. Police are...
Famous faces from across the Westcountry including Ann Widdecombe and Angela Rippon are backing this year’s Surviving Winter Appeal which is being coordinated locally by Devon Community Foundation. The campaign, which has recently been launched, will help thousands of vulnerable and older people affected by fuel poverty this winter.
Ann Widdecombe, who has supported the campaign for many years said, “I will be among the first to donate my Winter Fuel Payment to the Surviving Winter Appeal. This small gesture is such an easy and obvious way to support local people in real need and I...
The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, has been seeking to reassure people affected by flooding that the Government is "doing everything it can to help".
Speaking to the BBC in Exeter, Mr Paterson urged the public to pay attention to the information being put out saying, "We have had some real tragedies over the past few days and these are avoidable if people would pay real attention to the information we are giving out".
North-east England and north Wales are braced for possible flooding as the weather front which brought heavy rain to southern England moves north....
Surf Life Saving GB, a charity of more than 6,000 volunteers helping to make the country’s beaches safer places, is celebrating moving into its new offices following a fire in Exeter’s Southernhay three weeks ago (2nd November).
A fire in the ground floor of its shared office building in Southernhay, meant Surf Life Saving GB’s national headquarters were deemed unsafe and the charity was effectively made immediately homeless.
As a charity, there is very little cash kept in reserve, with the majority being reinvested into projects to help educate and train...
Conditions are improving today across Devon's major road network, but highways engineers are concerned that sub zero temperatures later in the week will further compound damage to the network.
Highways teams have been out again early this morning, scouting the major road network, identify problems and clearing up.
In Barnstaple, the A377 has been closed due to flooding, as is the A399 due to a minor landslide.
The A396 at Cove is closed due to flooding.
The A377, Exeter to Crediton is passable with care.
New research shows that concerns about governmental failure to act effectively and fairly in the aftermath of extreme weather events can affect the degree to which residents are willing to protect themselves.
The findings of a team led by scientists at the University of Exeter could prove key to establishing how society should evolve to cope with more turbulent weather and more frequent mega storms.
The team examined attitudes in Cumbria in north west England and Galway in western Ireland, which were both hit by heavy flooding in November 2009. Record...
As the new payday lending customer charter is launched, Citizens Advice Bureaux across the country are today releasing new figures demonstrating a worrying increase in the number of serious debt cases relating to payday loans.
The Citizens Advice service has seen a ten-fold increase in the proportion of clients receiving casework help with multiple debts which included a payday loan debt in the last four years. In the first quarter of 2009/10 only one per cent of CAB debt casework clients had at least one payday loan and in the same quarter last year this had risen to four per cent...
