An Earth observation company and ecommerce gift business have won this year’s Fast Track to Growth programme.

Pixalytics won the smaller company category, with House of Harris winning in the larger company category, at a final pitch event at Plymouth Science Park, the culmination of an intensive free business support programme for more than 20 Devon businesses.

Both companies have won £10,000 of on-going business support to help them grow.

Chris and Charlotte Harris founded the online store House of Harris in 2012 from their family home in Plymouth. With 25 years of...

A successful novelist from Exeter has just published her very own love story – and she hopes it will inspire others to find wisdom, peace and happiness.

Mother-of-two Catherine Harman wrote two gripping thrillers after relocating to Devon from her native Lancashire at the turn of the century to buy and run a convenience store.

The former computer programmer’s new surroundings inspired her to write the sensational five-star novels, What the Butler Saw and the sequel Rupert’s Unravelling.

Now, more than a year on, Catherine turned her attentions to telling her own...

This weekend cycle Fest comes to Seaton on Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July.

Riders dressed in vintage attire will enjoy a leisurely ride along the Jurassic Coast on Saturday 30th June with live music and family entertainment in Cliff Field Gardens throughout the afternoon.

On Sunday 1st July the faster criterium and Primary School cycle races will take place along the Seaton seafront. Spectators and supporters can enjoy all the action with a host of family entertainment taking place throughout the day within the town including face painting, bouncy castle, live music...

Paintings, ceramics, sculpture and glass will be exhibited in Torquay this August.

From August 25 to 31 fingerpaintings by Saskia Skoric will hang alongside nautical paintings by Len Murrell and landscapes and seascapes by Lynda Kettle, former vice president of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) and chair of Sidmouth Art Society. There will be glass pictures by Sue Purser Hope (chair of the Contemporary Glass Society), sculpture by Nicola Axe and pottery by Andrew Matheson RBSA. This exciting exhibition, organised by Creative Coverage, takes place at Artizan Gallery, 7...

The sky is the limit for Exeter Lions Club President Julian Chadwick who is taking up the challenge of lifetime and making a tandem skydive from 10,000 feet in aid of The Lions International Blood Research Appeal (LIBRA) – a charity which raises funds to tackle blood cancers.

Julian is set to make his sponsored jump on his 72nd birthday on 1st July 2018 at the Dunkeswell Aerodrome. He is making the special birthday jump in memory of the well-known Exeter Lion President Mike Welsh who sadly died of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.

Julian has been planning his jump for some months,...

This summer, Castle Drogo is exhibiting a collection of prints, drawings and sculptures by Royal Academician Peter Randall-Page.

The prints and drawings focus on observations of the natural world and include delicate linocuts of botanical and animal subjects. Recent prints such as Honeysuckle, Fig Tree, Spiders and Frogs are shown alongside Peter’s early studies of exquisite seed pods. One of the highlights of the exhibition is Randall-Page’s 7m wide ‘Rorschach Screen’ with its mirror image panels of drawings that reference the bi-lateral symmetry of Rorschach ink blots. Peter says...

The 2018 prestigious South West Chef of the Year is open for applications to showcase the excellence in the South West’s hospitality industry. Now in its 15th year, the highly anticipated culinary contest aims to find the very best regional talent for five different categories. Lead judge and co-founder Michael Caines MBE of Lympstone Manor champions the cooking competition which offers aspiring chefs, those already working in the industry and home cooks the opportunity to gain recognition for their culinary skill and creativity. Past competitors have used the experience gained during the...

With summer holidays on the horizon, you can be forgiven for spending most of your free time loading up on healthy salads, or hitting the gym, but are you seeing the results from all your efforts? An often-overlooked area when it comes to keeping in shape is achieving healthy sleep. Here, Sealy’s sleep expert, Neil Robinson, advises on why sleep plays such an important role when it comes to looking and feeling your best.

Burning fat while sleeping?

Believe it or not, a great deal of efficient fat can be burnt when sleeping, and quality rest is equally as beneficial for...

Dartmoor artist Shirley Kirkcaldy is celebrating after her work has been selected to be represented by a new Devon gallery.

The Tidal Gallery, which opens at Victoria Place, The Promenade, Kingsbridge, on July 22 will be exhibiting eight of Shirley’s latest landscapes and seascapes.

“It is pleasing that galleries are increasingly showing interest in my work,” says Shirley, who was recently featured artist in Dartmoor and Devon Life magazines.

Shirley’s work is informed by what she experiences when in the landscape – an intuitive response to a place and time. Working...