Volunteers were getting dug in at the Helston's Grylls Monument recently as part of ongoing work to transform the bottom of Coinagehall Street.

A team from Cormac joined volunteers from Helston Bowls Club and Helston and The Lizard Works - a scheme that aims to help unemployed over-50s gain work experience and jobs - as they carried out soft landscaping work around the monument.

Jacqui Owen, from Cormac, said: "We were brought in to get the community involved... we also had the landscape architect from MeiLoci.

"It's all about getting community ownership of the site."

Cormac created five new beds, and the volunteers all helped to plant them up and to mulch them."

Jacqui added: "The planning was inspired by the setting: it was low maintenance, robust planting, that would cope with any weathers."