Two businesswomen from West Cornwall have joined forces to set up a last minute holiday booking website. Caitlin Thomas from St Ives and Emily Tarrant from Penzance met last year during a seven week course run by Cornwall College Business.
Some good or bad news on car parking charges in Helston, depending on your point of view. Ticket prices for the town's car parks are to stay the same over the next financial year, meaning your £1 will still get you two hours of parking. Helston
Penryn Rugby Football Club has secured Olympic legacy funding from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities fund. It will receive £50,000 of National Lottery funding towards a new multi purpose building with a Learning Zone at it's heart to be constructed
For the full Falmouth and Helston area snow gallery CLICK HERE With the rest of the UK covered in snow, people in Cornwall could have been forgiven for feeling a little left out, until Monday. A rare brief flurry of snow lightly dusted Falmouth
Helston’s Epworth Hall has been given a makeover for the last two weeks by volunteers from Job Centre Plus. The 18-strong team has completely repainted the inside of the hall in Coinagehall Street, while also tackling the outside area. Here
FALMOUTH’S newest footpath, which offers residents of the Goldenbank estate safe passage to Swanpool and onwards to Marlborough School is proving a hit, with a steady stream of people making use of it. The path, which leads from Swan’s Reach, opened
A lifeboat enthusiast from Carharrack near Redruth will be doing his bit for the RNLI’s annual SOS fundraising day this Friday. Mick French will be putting his large scale model lifeboats on display at the Asda store in Penryn between 10am and
A women’s institute that should have been celebrating its 90th anniversary in a few weeks has instead been suspended on the Lizard Peninsula. Manaccan WI has been forced to take the difficult decision to end due to a lack in women willing to take
In a tale straight out of a Sherlock Holmes novel, the son of a Helston burglary victim turned amateur private detective in a bid to track down the culprit – and succeeded. The police have since admitted that had it not been for Sam Roach
Penryn Town Council joined forces with the local MP this weekend to protest against a supermarket’s attempts to open what they say is an unauthorised pharmacy. Truro and Falmouth MP Sarah Newton has launched a petition, which has already received
It is said that all political careers end in failure, but it seemed at times this week like the whole political edifice at the Blue Kremlin was crumbling. First up we have the resignation of the Tory group political leader, Fiona Ferguson,
Regarding the proposed development at Middle Point – leaving aside the aesthetics of this proposal, with its brutalist architecture on a site of great natural beauty – I am concerned about the contamination issue in relation to the old tank farms.
I am absolutely horrified reading “luxury homes planned for port” in last week’s Falmouth Packet. Is nothing sacred in this town? Falmouth people and surrounding areas think of “the Point” as their own. Please, please, say no – in no uncertain
With the forthcoming council elections there is a lot of contemplation amongst some of the public regarding who will stand for election and who to vote for etc. There has been a lot of controversial news released into the public domain over the
So, once again we see Cornwall Council overruling the wishes of Falmouth. How can Nigel Brabyn say yes, despite no regard for highway safety, lack of parking, overdevelopment and everything else that is not acceptable by the planners, it will be
A page from the Packet dated November 21 has just reached me from my uncle in Colorado, who is probably not your furthest-flung subscriber. It’s a story about a new production by the King Charles Mummers, and I read with interest that it was to
WARNING: This video contains strong language. Camera phone footage of mysterious lights hovering off the coast at Land's End has appeared on video-sharing website YouTube The four minute clip, shot by an unknown UFO spotter, feature two lights
Helston has been given 200 free sandbags in case of future flooding. Councillor Sue Swift said that following the most recent severe flooding at St Johns, three days before Christmas, she had got in touch with the Cornwall Community Flood Group
A stone brought all the way across the Atlantic from Michigan in the USA was thrown into the chilly waters of Swanpool last week. The event was the recreation of a similar activity that took place in an American town as part of Falmouth’s 350th
Ainscough Wind Energy Services, a subsidiary of the UK’s largest lifting services company the Goldman Sach’s owned Ainscough Cranes, will establish a new base on the business park of Aerohub Enterprise Zone at Newquay Airport. The announcement
A public meeting is likely to be held over a bid to close Helston's Penhellaz Hill to traffic. Led by a group of residents of Cross Street, a petition by Steve Stewart has been signed by 50 people from all parts of the town in favour of the proposal
The campaign to get a new skatepark for Falmouth is being given a boost to start the new year with an adult-only fundraising and awareness event tomorrow evening, Thursday. Teenager Mikey Cartlidge first came up with the idea of providing a new
Cornwall Council cabinet member Fiona Ferguson has quit over what she claims are plans to use 'lie detectors' to root out benefit cheats. The voice “Voice Risk Analysis” (VRA) techniques will be used to assess people who, under law, have a single
A Redruth beauty queen will hold a fashion show next month in aid of a children's hospice charity. Miss Cornwall Galaxy, Katie Mcloughlin, has organised the event to benefit Children's Hospice South West. It will be held at The Penventon Hotel
A Penryn pensioner fed up with the “lamentably poor” bus service to Truro on a weekday morning is calling for a change. Bill Cooper, aged 65, wants something to do be done about the overcrowded service number 88, which runs from Falmouth to Truro
News that Lance Armstrong has finally come clean and made the world's least anticipated revelation that he did indeed take performance enhancing drugs is nothing more than a shameless attempt to gloss over the facts. Oprah Winfrey was tasked with
