• Monster queues at the cinemas:

QUEUES not seen since the 50s formed outside cinemas all over Cornwall on Thursday as the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park went on release.

Dinomania had hit Cornwall.

Extra programmes were laid on and people were turned away as they tried to get in to see the dinosaur film given a PG rating but which Spielberg wants parents to make up their own minds whether young children should be allowed to see it. There is even a footnote to the PG certificate.

  • New camera will help slow down speedy motorists:

THE £25,000 camera unveiled by Camborne Police last week in their crackdown on Cornwall's speeding motorists, will be able to take up to 800 photographs from one reel.

It has been used by Devon police for over a year in extensive trials, and according to MPc Jerry Campion, it has only one drawback.

"Because the camera is open at the top it cannot be used in the rain, but when that happens we still have our normal speed checking equipment available," he said.

  • Trio cheat death in car crash

By Helen Thomas

THREE teenagers are lucky to be alive this week after a young driver lost control of his father's car and crashed into a tree at Perranarworthal on Sunday night.

Seventeen-year-old Alex French, of Comfort Road, Mylor, was driving the Audi and had to be cut free from the wreckage after the pedals trapped his foot. It took firemen about an hour to release him.

Also in the car was Alex's younger brother Ben, 14, and his friend, 17-year-old Sam Lilly – they both managed to escape from the car unaided.

Alex was taken to Treliske's casualty department where he was treated for a broken collar bone and a cracked bone in his ankle. His foot is now in plaster and he is wearing a sling.