A SOUTH Devon College lecturer and business innovation mentor from Ashburton has braved a 'Dragon's Den-style' grilling to take third place in the University of Plymouth's 2009/10 Business Ideas Challenge.

James Brocklehurst, a 35-year-old IT lecturer in digital media, won £500 and third place for his software Kuppa, which caught the imagination of the judges for the way it increased the speed of creating graphics on web pages.

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