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  • St Julias receives cash boost

    St Julias Hospice, Hayle, is to benefit form a £3,859,000 handhour to 16 hospices throughout the region and will go towards improving the physical environment. Hospices like St Julias will receive funding to provide a wide range of improvements, including

  • Child becomes stuck in bicycle

    An Easter Sunday cycle ride went horribly wrong for one child when they had to be rescued by fire fighters after becoming stuck in the wheel of a bicycle at Penryn. Fire fighters were called to The Terrace in Penryn at 3.07pm on Sunday (April 8) after

  • School head races to Westminster

    Kayaking enthusiast Linda Dawe was the first woman to finish a 125-mile race which started on Good Friday and finished on Easter Monday. Linda, who is headteacher at Pencoys School in Four Lanes, came sixth overall in the race and was one of only three

  • Sail training vessel ready for season

    Falmouth Sail Training Ship Hardiesse' left her winter berth on Good Friday to head down to her summer mooring. It has been a busy winter with the construction of a new coach roof, the rebuilding of the hundred year old winch and the refurbishment

  • Diary of a fun runner (Part 2)

    Well, I have heeded good advice and been back to see Jane Pascoe who is a cracking Physiotherapist in Falmouth who "sorted me out" when I ran the New York Marathon in 2004 and London Marathon in 2005 with various niggles. She looked at my left knee, moving

  • Forgotten outrage must be remembered as well

    THE monument to the Cornish miners who took part in the great exile (The Disporia Gardens) is little more than an attempt to whitewash Cornish history and present a bland version made palatable for the incomers who will fill the 6,000-8,000 houses that