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A University of Exeter student who won multiple awards for her AI start-up is also making waves in academia with an invitation to present a research paper at the World Congress of Undergraduate Research .

Elizabeth Chandler, a 22-year-old final year undergraduate based in Cornwall, recently won a Women in Tech Award as well as Innovate UK’s Young Innovators Award for her budding start-up The Good Robot Company , which helps businesses become more inclusive by detecting and minimising bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems.

And last month...

The Devon County Agricultural Association has announced that The Hon John Rous DL has been appointed President of Devon County Show 2023.

John, who originates from North Devon has a heritage in Devon farming. His father bred Red Rubys and John spent much of his childhood, when he wasn’t at school, droving cattle from farm to farm around North Devon from the Parkham base.

When John’s father retired, his gift to John, who was still a teenager, was a dozen Devon Close Wool sheep. John spent the next few years growing the flock successfully to 100.

A further gift...

On 24 March 2022, Maketank and a community of volunteers opened the Conversation Café at 6 Paris Street, Exeter, to serve as a space of learning about Ukraine, the reasons for and implications of the full-scale Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, and to support newly arriving Ukrainians to Devon and their sponsors.

It soon became the welcome hub for refugees and new arrivals from Ukraine, with a mission to create a culture of welcome and safety for those seeking a sanctuary from war.

Since opening, the Café has served nearly 1,000 displaced Ukrainians – mostly...

A Devon woman says she hopes her appearance on a popular BBC adventure challenge series will encourage others with sight loss to take on their own challenges.

Tricia Sail, who has uveitis and is registered as severely sight impaired, and her fully sighted friend Cathie, are taking part in the third series of BAFTA-award winning BBC programme Race Across the World, which returns to our screens at 9pm on Wednesday 22 March, after a three-year hiatus.

The duo are among five sets of pairs competing to race across the second largest country in the world – Canada, starting off...