Forget the latest boy band, sales of the Western Morning News' calendar of the region's beauty spots are outstripping the one featuring the lads from pop sensation One Direction, writes Sarah Pitt.
The Western Morning News' Westcountry Calendar 2014 features a selection of stunning views from the newspaper's popular daily Western Morning Views slot.
And according to retailer Calendar Club, the new release is proving even more popular in its six Westcountry stores than the one featuring One Direction, despite the pop band's calendar shaping up to be the national bestseller ahead of perennial favourite Sir Cliff Richard.
In the chain's store in Plymouth's New George Street, the WMN calendar came second only to the one featuring young Plymouth Olympic diver Tom Daley, who popped in to boost sales of his own calendar last week.
"It is interesting that One Direction have been bumped from the top slot in the Westcountry," said Natalie Taylor of Calendar Club. "I was really surprised."
Less surprised, perhaps, will be fans of the paper's regular Western Morning View slot, which demonstrates the sheer variety of beauty to be found in the region in photographs submitted by readers. The calendar features one view for every fortnight of the year, taken by Martyn Hasluck, Patricia Malek Rob Kendall, Rosie Spooner, Shaun Skinner, Robin Jacobs, Roy Curtis, Max Doble, Mike Watson, John Husband, Max Doble, Tim Barker, Jeffrey Blake, Dave Peake, David Dummett and Tina Haydn-Jones.They range from clifftop views over sweeping sands, to harbours at night, and lonely moorland tors in the evening light. Patricia Malek captures the daffodils in the woodland gardens at Castle Hill in North Devon, while Rosie Spooner shows the grandeur of the North Cornwall coastline with her photograph of the Towanroath Engine House overlooking Chapel Porth beach.
To order copies of the calendar, simply fill in the today's on page 18 of today's WMN or order online here
