An artist who created a portrait on an old fishing bouy and hung it out to dry at Perranuthnoe is asking for help after a heartless thief stole it.

Chelsea Bowman, age 19, has been drawing on an old fishing buoy for her HNC art project and left it outside her house in Perranuthnoe to dry.

After taking her eye of it for a short while, some passing thief decided to steal it.

If you know where it is, it can be returned to Penwith College, St Clare, Penzance or returned to where it was found in Perranuthnoe.

If anyone has any information please call the college on 01736 335000.

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