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  • Professor’s remarks need to be challenged

    I am not one to reply to letters sent in - however I found that the reply (Packet, January 10) from Professor Colin Roberts (chairman, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust) to Councillor Tommy Bray very interesting. I agree that the word "nutters" is

  • Cornish casual workers have been displaced

    AFTER reading the front page article last week in respect of foreign dock workers, I was surprised that as a director of A&P Falmouth, Mr Mike Reynolds did not know how many foreign nationals were working for them, which countries they were from, their

  • Highlights of a walk from Penryn to Falmouth

    THIS is my tale of an average day's walk from Penryn to Falmouth. I close my front door and look down my street, because, despite it being one way, motor bikes travel up the street the wrong way, and some cars reverse all the way up to save driving around

  • Tackling ‘Ghost Town Britain’

    A Bill, originally put forward by Falmouth and Camborne MP Julia Goldsworthy, that would help address the decline of Cornish towns and villages has passed its initial stages through Parliament. The Sustainable Communities Bill, which aims to tackle the

  • Wendron achieve goal of providing safer football

    FOLLOWING a successful funding bid, the Football Foundation have awarded Wendron FC a £695 grant to replace its football goals with new, safer ones. Football is one of the fastest growing sports and highly popular within the area. The Football Foundation

  • 2007 rally planning now at an advanced stage

    PLANS for this year's Vospers Tour of Cornwall Rally, which takes place on Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24, are at an advanced stage and, with some minor alterations, the organisers are retaining the successful format of 2006. Based at Pentewan

  • Redruth Rugby Club launches academy

    NATIONAL Two league Redruth Rugby Club has unveiled an exciting new venture with the launch of a rugby academy. The RFU backed academy will give rugby players the chance to continue their post-16 education at Redruth School whilst also being able to

  • Students off to top universities

    TWO students at Helston Community College have been offered places at Oxford and Cambridge universities. Peter O'Brien, aged 17 of Carnkie, has been offered a place at Magdalene College at Cambridge University to study engineering. He is currently taking