Hi Ernest – firstly just to say I really do appreciate your swift and very helpful responses. Sorry to be such a pain!
As it happened. whilst I was trying to figure the answer myself last night I switched from woocomm results page to default results page and that seems to have dealt with my first query.
As to the ‘Devon’ issue. I didn’t realise I had Devon in both post categories and product categories. I think this happened when I was uploading categories via allimport plugin. I couldn’t figure out why the import hadn’t worked when I checked the product categories after the import so I ran the import again. This time it worked. What i didn’t realise is that with the first import I selected ‘categories’ and not ‘product categories’ hence the duplicate. I deleted all the post categories and it lloks to be working fine.
Once again, thanks for you help
Martin