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Floral designer and judge on BBC2’s “The Big Allotment Challenge”, Jonathan Moseley has gathered a selection of garden blooms and purchased flowers to create the eclectic mix of colours and varieties to bring a 17th century Dutch floral painting to life in anticipation of the exciting gardening spectacular Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle.

"The painters of the Dutch masters could arguably be termed the first arrangers of flowers in the Western style,” says Jonathan, “their intrinsic understanding of form, colour and texture are still inspirational to arrangers...

A new research centre will bring together experts in a diverse range of fields to tackle some of the greatest health issues of our time – and the public are being invited to get involved.

The University of Exeter’s Centre for Biomedical Modelling and Analysis will unite disciplines including mathematics, computer science and physics with those from biology, biomedicine and clinical sciences.

By working together, they will gain a better understanding of the root causes of diseases such as dementia, diabetes and epilepsy, leading to new tools for diagnosing and treating these...

Gary Flint was hoping to raise £1,500 running the London Marathon for local charity Rainbow Living but after completing the grueling 26 miles in a very respectable 4 hours 18 minutes he has smashed this target having raised an incredible £2,300 – and that figure is still climbing!

Supporters have been incredibly generous and Gary is now aiming for a total of £2,500. If you would like to help him achieve this amazing figure you can sponsor him via his Virgin Money Giving page http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/GaryFlint . Every pound will be put to very good use.

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The first stage of some exciting archaeological exploration has just been completed on Dartmoor. This has involved a geophysical survey on a recently discovered large stone circle located close to Sittaford Tor.

The circle is situated 525m above sea level, making it the highest stone circle in southern England, with panoramic views in all directions. With a diameter of 34m, it is the second largest circle on Dartmoor. The first stones were identified by Alan Endacott a few years ago.

The circle consists of 30 recumbent stones, plus one more lying in a gap just outside the...