Bean company Easy Bean is celebrating Fairtrade status for a third product – its improved recipe Spanish Puchero pot.

The Sebastian Cow pie is made with British beef steak and beans slow-cooked in a chipotle chilli and tomato sauce and is just the thing to serve the crowds as they cheer on Team GB - they’ll be available from 9th June so catch ‘em while you can! This follows the recent launch of their Lovely Jubilee pie, made with free range British chicken in a curried Coronation-style sauce laced with mango chutney, sweetcorn and coconut.

Taste of the West member, The Cornish Crisp Company,  is celebrating an additional 30 outlets across the country thanks to a new partnership with bakery chain Pasty Presto. Pasty Presto started with one shop in Mevagissey in Cornwall and now they have outlets from Chester to the Channel Islands.

Please note that the deadline for the South West Flavour Awards has been extended to 8th June! So there's still time to get your Hospitality and Retail entries in to Taste of the West!

The Cafe at 36, St Thomas, Exeter is proud to support UK Coffee Week™ 2012, the nation’s largest charitable celebration of coffee being held from 23-29 April. UK Coffee Week unites coffee lovers and the industry to raise money for Project Waterfall, the charitable initiative delivering clean water projects in African coffee-producing countries in partnership with WaterAid.