Moira Tangye has been having a love affair with St Ervan for 30 years and the esteem in which she is held is mirrored in the fact that she has obtained over 250 photographs in this fascinating history of the parish. The older images, in particular, are hugely evocative, recalling a mood and way of life that have gone – and will never come back.

The Book of Cullompton, Celebrating a Devonshire Market Town has been collated by a small group from the Town Council, with contributions from many local people. They set out not just to recall the past, but also to record the present, so that future generations can see what Cullompton was like in the year 2000.

Nature Watch 3 marks Trevor Beer's 20th year of writing his ‘Nature Watch’ column six days a week for the Western Morning News, for which he has never missed a day. Reader’s letters and queries still flood in through Trevor’s letterbox, a tribute to the author’s natural ability to paint word pictures as this further collection illustrates.