Man ‘blind’ for 40 years sees again

Doctors have restored the sight of a Penryn man who went almost blind in one eye 40 years ago.

Eye surgery has progressed rapidly in recent years but Ronnie Rollason was unaware anything could be done to the eye which suffered a serious lime burn when he was a teenager.

Scar tissue which formed over the eye left him almost blind.

But Mr Rollason, a 56-year-old joiner at Falmouth Docks, and a marksman with a shotgun, is now slowly regaining the vision he has not known for all those years.

His prowess with a shotgun has been gained with only one eye.

Reckless joyriders career into school after losing tyre

A two hour joyride at speeds of up to 85mph only ended when a car ran into the grounds of Tremough Convent School for Girls in Penryn on three tyres and a wheel rim.

The three 25-year-old occupants - driver Robert Truscott, and twin brothers Richard and Patrick Vincent - tried to hide in the undergrowth but were flushed out by police dogs.

Fingerprint was his downfall

A fingerprint found on a plastic bin liner helped convict a man of dishonestly handling stolen property at Truro Crown Court last week.

The bin liner, the court heard, was found in a back garden adjoining 25-year-old Dean Bullen’s home in Pendarves Road, Falmouth. It contained items stolena short time before when an unoccupied house at Kestle Wartha, Manaccan, was burgled last August.

Fears grow over the ‘go slow’ line

The railway line between Falmouth and Truro could soon be nicknamed the go slow line.

Along with the St Erth to St Ives line and 25 other branch lines in the country, it has been listed for receiving “emergency maintenance”only’.

Hard up British Rail says it just cannot afford to maintain tracks fully and has had to order the go slow.