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Blitz Fireworks have been crowned the ‘British Fireworks Champion 2014’ at this year’s British Firework Championships following a spectacular two-day showdown between six of the UK’s top pyrotechnics specialists on Plymouth Hoe.

Thousands of spectators gathered on and around the Hoe on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 August to see over four tonnes of fireworks set off into the night sky...

A South Devon computer science student has created a free iPhone app for the charity that inspired him as a child.

Robin Bailey, who is studying Computer Science at Plymouth University, was a member of Paignton Zoo’s Gibbon Club when he was at primary school. He is now a volunteer at the Zoo - and helps with Gibbon Club.

The app, called INVestigate INVertebrates, has been...

A partner with a Bideford-based Chartered Accountancy firm, has passed all of the Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA) taxation examinations with flying colours, on the first attempt. Jonathan Gifford, partner with Haines Watts North Devon LLP, is the only professional in North Devon to have achieved this success in the last five years.

As a result of his examination success, Jonathan is now a...

To coincide with the opening of the new Burrator Discovery Centre, it has always been a long term dream of the South West Lakes Trust team at Burrator to have a totem pole to mark the entrance to the centre, carved into the trunk that remains from a sycamore tree.

In keeping with the Burrator Historic and Natural Environment Project the Trust wanted to provide something that depicts...