Thousands of people enjoyed three days of food and music over the weekend at another successful Porthleven Festival - although at one point organisers feared they would have to cancel the whole event.

Despite ominous forecasts of Storm Hannah, the event passed relatively unscathed - with the letter 'E' from Porthleven's answer to the Hollywood sign being the main casualty, blowing away in the strong wind, and organisers having to relocate some of the stalls placed in more exposed areas.

It was, however, a nervous build up for the organisers, with joint festival director Alec Short saying: "On Thursday we were monitoring the Met Office weather reports hour by hour. Had the wind direction been more from the south then there could have been a case for cancellation."

Returning for its 11th year, the event was opened on Friday by children from Porthleven School singing and waving flags as they paraded down to the festival site at the harbour and Moors Field to join mayor Andrew Wallis.

This kicked off a day celebrating local food and produce, with a farmers’ market and workshops, plus music during the afternoon.

Mad Dog Mcrea and The Roustabouts then got the party started in the evening on the Shipyard Stage.

The festival opened again on Saturday, usually the day that sees the biggest crowds, with a performance from Porthleven Town Band, ahead of festival patron Antony Worrall Thompson starting the action in the Chefs’ Theatre with the now traditional Ready Steady Cook challenge against Porthleven’s own Kota and Kota Kai chef-owner Jude Kereama.

The Chef's Theatre ran on both weekend days at the Shipyard Stage, as did the Literary and Acoustic Tent and Family Field at The Moors, with circus skills and art workshops for young visitors.

Mr Short estimated that Saturday saw a similar amount of visitors to the equivalent day during last year's record-breaking 2018 event.

The festival closed on Sunday evening with a line up made entirely of Porthleven bands.

Organisers teamed up this year with the Porthleven Environment Group, who helped with litter-picks across the weekend, as well as encouraging visitors and traders to recycle their rubbish.

Last year the food festival was able to recycle 53 per cent of its waste, compared to the 32 per cent recycled by the average UK festival, and while this year's figures are not yet known the aim is to be even higher.

Although some complaints were left on social media about rubbish filling the port by the end of Saturday night, there was also praise for the team of cleaners who left the port looking "spotless" ready for the start of the third day on Sunday.

This year saw far fewer complaints over access to the event, following last year's congestion issues that led to First having to cancel buses to the port, with organisers working hard on the traffic management plan.

Mr Short thanked the local community and businesses for its support, acknowledging: "It has a large impact to the local area and what is a working harbour. It's good to be bringing all the benefits of the extra visitors and spend, but at the same time we know that it has an impact that affects businesses and the community. A big thanks to them for allowing it to happen."