The Brownston Gallery is celebrating it's 10th anniversary this year with a series of special exibitions and Barry Kelly who has been with them from the beginning is one of their most successful young artists.
Barry's new collection of work portrays his love and appreciation of nature, and in particular the healing properties of the ocean. This is reflected in his use of a softer palette of colour, misty pinks and gentle blues, revealing huge pastel skies that seem to go on forever, blurring the line between sky and sea, between the present and the future. Each painting is full of...
Dartmoor National Park Authority has today introduced a temporary ban on open fires and barbecues on all common land within the National Park. The ban has been introduced in response to the prolonged dry weather and the risk wildfires can pose to people and animals, as well as damage to property and the natural environment. People who plan to spend time in the National Park are urged to be...
A teenager from Devon is embarking on a mega fundraising challenge during her schoolsummer holidays to raise money for a Westcountry-based disaster relief charity.
Emily Read, 15 will be paddleboarding 220km along the River Thames next month to raise money for ShelterBox, which specialises in emergency shelter.
The international charity is based in Cornwall and provides...
South West based internet service provider, Jurassic Fibre, today announced the start of their ultrafast broadband network build in Cornwall.
The award-winning broadband company has already rolled out their state-of-the-art network to homes and businesses across Devon, Dorset and Somerset, where many towns and villages had previously struggled with inadequate and unreliable digital...
Guide Dogs and Dartmoor Zoological Society are delighted to announce a new pilot project, aimed at improving the customer experience for visitors who have a vision impairment.
This July, 22 members of staff and volunteers from the Zoo have received expert training and advice from Guide Dogs’ My Sighted Guide service.
Guide Dogs is currently piloting this new partner model, in...
The National Trust at North Devon have teamed up with Dynamic Dunescapes, StudioKIND and a range of local artists and businesses to host the first Woolacombe sand dune arts festival on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 August.
The festival is free to attend and is a celebration of the importance of sand dunes which, as well as being spaces that benefit the mental and physical wellbeing of...
Azets, the UK's largest regional accountancy and business advisor to SMEs, has launched a new Plymouth office, located in Sutton Harbour. The new office shows Azets’ continued investment in the West Country and will house specialists in audit, business advisory, restructuring and insolvency.
The office, which opened at the end of July, is being headed up by Laura Pingree and Duncan...
Villagers of Marsh Green in East Devon have made an urgent appeal to the Devon branch of the countryside charity CPRE to help them fight an alarming planning application for a solar farm that would destroy hundreds of acres of productive land and increase the risk of their homes flooding. The extraordinary proposal also includes cutting off the nearby hamlet of Westcott for five days a week...
Popular authors including Lucy Worsley and Kate Mosse will be part of the International Agatha Christie Festival, 10 - 17 September 2022, celebrating the centenary of the world travels that inspired some of Agatha Christie’s greatest stories.
The Festival offers a week of suspense, surprise and sun on the beautiful English Riviera in and around Torquay with over 40 events including...
A biker from Devon is preparing to ride more than 1,000 miles in three days in memory of his best friend’s wife who died of a brain tumour.
Stuart Morrissey from Plymouth will take to the roads on his 125cc motorcycle, stopping off at 14 of the country’s vehicle museums along the way. The challenge, which will see him cover 1,100 miles in just three days, is inspired by Christine...
