A MARCHING band, traditional shanty singers and the tributes from groups across Falmouth were the ingredients making up a special memorial service to Barrington Bennetts last Saturday. The town's famous pint-pulling priest passed away on Christmas Eve
Members held their last indoor meeting until winter on Tuesday, March 20 at Green Lawns Hotel. It was very well attended and the speaker was Tracy Wilson, horticulturalist, lecturer and broadcaster. Entitled ‘Behind the Scene at Chelsea,’ Tracy gave
Truro City fell to a second successive defeat in the Blue Square Bet Conference South away at Basingstoke. City fell behind to an own goal from Arran Pugh after six minutes and were 2-0 behind at the break, thanks to a header from Delano Sam-Yorke.
IT was the great Liverpool football manager of the 60s and 70s, Bill Shankly, who once said: “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important
It has still yet to open but Helston’s Old Cattle Market development is already attracting interest from around the world. The building, which is almost completed on the site of the town’s former cattle market next to Coronation Park, has been
PERHAPS Mr Childs could inform the public how many people are permanently employed at the docks and just the docks and how dredging will mean another 2,000 jobs. With the market forces being as they are I think Mr Childs and Mr Sansom are really over
I RECENTLY accompanied a pensioner to the job centre in Penryn when he needed to contact the DWP urgently. I noticed that the office is a fraudster’s paradise, because all the telephones for use by those who are claiming or receiving benefits are in
The coalition government’s Health and Social Care Bill will seriously destabilise the NHS and its core principles. Many people are not aware that the policies represent the biggest change to the NHS since it was founded in 1948, and they will affect
I AM dismayed by the apparent ignorance of the true parameters of the proposed Falmouth harbour dredging, this goes hand-in-hand with the scare mongering and exaggeration adopted by those opposed to the scheme. If I had not the benefit (which is
People have a right to a view, and people do like to get things off their chest, but hard on the heels of one recent correspondent’s surprising statements about our, on the whole, pretty good police force, we have Ian Fleck telling us categorically
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Tuesday, March 13 Liberian tanker Ice Fighter (38,832/06) sailed from Falmouth Bay for Estonia. British tug Kingdom of Fife (1,459/08) arrived from St Ives Bay to Falmouth Bay. Liberian tanker NS Clipper (57,248/06) sailed from Falmouth Bay for North
Falmouth yacht builders Pendennis has had three yachts shortlisted as finalists in the 2012 World Superyacht Awards. Hemisphere and Christopher have been nominated in the sailing yachts above 40 metres category, and Akalam is a finalist in the sailing
Odyssey Explorer, the research vessel which regularly uses Falmouth as a base port, sailed from the docks last week for an undisclosed location. Scanning the AIS system, I found that she was in fact steaming out into the Atlantic to what I presume will
PLANS for a revolutionary scientific trial to monitor the environmental impact of dredging in Falmouth Harbour have been revealed. The tests, which are awaiting approval from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), will study the impact of
Firefighters were called out to a gorse fire near Tolvaddon after smoke started billowing over the A30. One appliance from Camborne attended and found approximately 100 square metres of gorse alight. A high pressure hosereel was used and Devon
It is time for the famous red briefcase to see the light of day as Chancellor George Osborne steps up to detail the budget. A tax cut for the wealthy has dominated headlines in the run up to the speech, with suggestions that he will cut the
More people are being forced to live in bed and breakfasts in Cornwall due to homelessness than in all the rest of the South West region combined, shocking new Government statistics show. The number of households placed in bed and breakfasts
Helston town councillors were warned that sending staff on an expensive 'jolly' while refusing to fund events in the town, would not go down well with the public. Councillors have recently cut back on the support they offer events in the town
A hit-and-run driver, who careered into a car full of pensioners in Helston before fleeing across fields in an attempt to escape, appeared in court last week. Timothy Alan Williams, aged 29, of Bay View Terrace, Hayle pleaded guilty to failing
Penryn could see an extra 41 houses built on land off of College Hill, if plans put before the council this week get the go ahead. At a meeting of the town council's planning committee, on Monday, representatives from Walker Developments outlined
OLYMPIC fever is building across Cornwall after the route of the Olympic torch parade through the Duchy was finally revealed – alongside the names of the privileged few who will get to carry it. The torch will arrive at RNAS Culdrose on Friday
Anyone looking to run or develop a sport and leisure related project will be able to find out how to access much needed funding next month at the Cornwall Sports Funding Fair. Organised by the Cornwall Sports Partnership, in collaboration with the Cornwall
A Redruth fast food restaurant has been given a £425,000 facelift, creating an extra nine jobs for the area. McDonald's franchisee Dave Wynne undertook the extensive revamp as part of an ongoing programme of refurbishment at McDonald's restaurants
