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Local artist Alyson Cadd Harlington is one of the organisers of a national art competition that hopes to stimulate interest in the arts, whilst raising funds for Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard, a remarkable charity set up in WW2.

The subjects for the Cat Portrait Artist of the Year competition are the cats owned by the 2 celebrities involved in the competition – Fearne Cotton,...

Free lunchtime concerts spice up the Dartmoor town of Chagford every Friday this summer.

Chagford’s Summer Music Series begins on June 9th and continues until the end of August with more than twenty musicians performing across twelve entirely different concerts in the historic parish church. Musical genres span classical, folk, jazz, world music, mediaeval, klezmer, and even sea-...

Adrian Gray, the international pioneer of stonebalancing art, will be returning to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the 8th time this year, bringing with him his otherworldly sculptures. Adrian will be showing two major stonebalancing sculptures this year, using huge 290-million-year-old Cornish granite boulders balanced as if ‘by a thread.’ One, ‘Heavy is a place on earth’ stands at four...

Visit South Devon has become the latest partner for the South West 660 driving route, an iconic road trip following the beautiful coastline of southwest England.

The 660-mile route runs from Poole in Dorset through Devon and Cornwall and finishes in Watchet, Somerset, passing Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Coastal sites as it hugs the sea.

Encouraging...