Penryn's Town Team has had to cancel three workshops next week which it had been hoped would launch the town's new brand and logo.

Last week the team had announced three dates, August 13, 14, and 15, but due to time scale and organisational problems the process has now fallen behind schedule.

Town team chairman Chris Smith said: "It is with regret that the town team have decided to cancel the events on those days and now concentrate on the previously planned presentation at Penryn Town Fair on Saturday August 29.

"We hope as many people as possible will attend this event and also our stall, so we can both put forward and listen to ideas about ways to make Penryn and even better place to live and work in or visit."

The team had come under fire on social media after last week's announcement, as Penryn citizens saw the new logo as an attack on the town's much loved Saracen's head emblem, as well as questioning any cost of a new logo and the choice of venues for the workshops.

Responding to questions on the Facebook groups Penryn Legends and Legendary Penryn History, Chris Smith wrote that any new logo would be supplementary to the Saracen's head, and that it had been designed free of charge by PR agency Eight Wire.

He wrote: "Nobody is talking about abandoning the Saracen's head, what we are looking for is an easily created and transferable image for certain forms of media and signage."