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Recent Press Releases

Harvestories - a UK first! Oral history website launches the Blackdown Hills to a worldwide audience

Release Date: 22/02/2012

A fascinating oral history website which documents the everyday lives of people living in and around the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is being launched. www.harvestories.co.uk

The website, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK, records the personal histories of 85 residents in and around the Blackdown Hills, on the Devon and Somerset border. It links ‘memoryscapes with landscapes’ giving a captivating insight in to the character and natural beauty of the area through stories about the people, landscape, culture and crafts of this beautiful and sometimes little known, isolated and rural locality....

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Bag a bargain this spring with discounts of up to 50% on West Country holidays thanks to Toad Hall Cottages

Release Date: 20/02/2012

Bag a bargain this spring with a fabulous holiday in the West Country with discounts of up to 50% thanks to Toad Hall Cottages. www.toadhallcottages.co.uk

Toad Hall Cottages is one of the leading providers of luxury self-catering holidays in the West Country with more than 450 delightful properties in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset. The company is holding its prices in 2012 at 2011 levels on most of its properties which makes Toad Hall Cottages an irresistible choice for holiday makers seeking luxury accommodation at value for money prices....

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Get into the Olympic spirit on Dartmoor with Active Dartmoor Week

Release Date: 15/02/2012

You don’t need to head to London to get into Olympic spirit in 2012 but you may be inspired by the iconic and beautiful location of Dartmoor in Devon which is to be the setting for a new Olympic style challenge, Active Dartmoor Week. www.dartmoor.co.uk

From 31 March until April 8, the awe inspiring terrain of Dartmoor will be host to a series of competitive challenges, kicking off the 2012 Olympic celebrations early with a range of activities and sports which showcase the wide variety of things to do and see in this most spectacular landscape. From zip wires and cycling, raft races, pony trekking, endurance events to a bake off there is something for everyone to really test their mettle at one of the UK’s most stunning locations....

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Simple as……a Cupcake Brainwave Bake!

Release Date: 15/02/2012

To celebrate a 30th birthday what could be more appropriate than a cake, and when it comes to fundraising, one cake is never enough! To celebrate its 30th birthday in 2012 children’s charity Brainwave is launching a year long Cupcake Bake fundraiser backed by TV celebrity chef Simon Rimmer who has produced a special recipe for the occasion.

Simon comments, “Anyone can take on the Cupcake Bake – it’s quick, fun and you can make the cakes in your own individual style. The ingredients are both easy to find and inexpensive – follow my recipe to create a batch of cupcakes to sell on to friends, family and work colleagues. By doing so you can put a smile on someone’s face as well as raise funds for Brainwave and support the fantastic work they do”...

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Portrait of First British Woman to win Nobel Prize added to National Portrait Gallery Collection

Release Date: 10/02/2012

Two years after Somerset-based photographers Anita Corbin and John O’Grady of Corbin O’Grady Studio saw 11 of their portraits on display at the prestigious National Portrait Gallery; Anita and John will now see another of their portraits depicting famous British scientists join the gallery’s Photographs Collection.

Professor Dorothy Hodgkin was the First and only British Woman ever to have won a Nobel Prize for science, for her work on vitamins, Among her most influential discoveries were the confirmation of the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin, and she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964). ...

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