A sneak peek of this week's Falmouth/Penryn and Helston Packets.

In this week's Falmouth/Penryn Packet - out tomorrow!

A licensing application, which could see the former nightclub in Falmouth re-opened but in a different format, has been met with fear and anger by neighbouring residents.

Falmouth Packet:

Serco's out of hours service is back in the news again, as a first-time mum from Penryn whose ten-week-old son was struck down with viral meningitis makes a formal complaint over the treatment and advice she was given.

Falmouth Packet:

Road safety feras has led to pupils at two Falmouth school's joining forces to produce an eight page booklet which they hope will encourage drivers to be more considerate, particularly at the start and end of the school day.

Falmouth Packet:

The ten-day Fal River festival set sail on Friday, starting a programme of 150 events varying from music and drama, the arts and heritage to gig racing, swimming and walking. Read the report and see the pictures inside Wednesday's Packet.

Falmouth Packet:

Over in the Helston Packet, the woman who crashed her car into the front of a Boots store in Porthleven has appeared in court for drink driving.

Falmouth Packet:

A Helston mother who confronted a blood-soaked man wielding a meat cleaver in London has told the Packet: “It's in my character.”

PLUS a great garden giveaway with Carnon Downs Garden Centre and the Packet

AND a 16-page guide to the  Royal Cornwall Show

For all this news - and much, much more - don't forget to pick up your copy of the Falmouth/Penryn and Helston Packets... Out every Wednesday!