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Falmouth Week results from Restronguet SC
A Class IRC Division I: 1, Gotcha (J Symington); 2, Dink Dank Do (J Money); 3, Jacobi (T Statham). B Class Large Working Boats: 1, Demelza (J Andrew); 2, Florence (Stephen Miles); 3, Rebecca (Phil Slater). C Class Small Working Boats: 1, Zilpha; 2,
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Borough return to old colours
After several seasons playing in assorted strips, it is pleasing to report that next season Penryn are to return to the traditional red and black hoops, which were the colours right back to the club's formation, writes Mike Dove. For a period in the
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Classic start to the races
The Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week got off to a cracking start on Saturday when, in fine weather conditions and with light winds, hundreds of boats took to the water in the Carrick Roads for the annual Classics. The event is the prelude to the week's racing
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Ten readers have won a bottle of malt whisky
To help celebrate the Henri- Lloyd Falmouth Week taking place this week the Packet, in conjunction with one of the sponsors, Old Pulteney Single Malt Whisky, ran a competition in which ten bottles of the well known malt were offered as prizes. Old Pulteney
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Enterprising farmer turns growing maize field into maze for visitors
AN ama-i-zing maize maze is pulling in the punters in a field near Maenporth, and dairy farmer Roger Williams believes it is the biggest in Cornwall. Roger, who farms at Meudon Farm, decided to put his 12 acre maize field to good use after a friend
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Teenagers start four-year apprenticeships
TWO Cornish teenagers are among 95 trainees beginning an electrical apprenticeship with Southern Electric Contracting (SEC) this week. Samuel Cooper, 16 of Little Oaks, Penryn, and Zachary Penna, 16, of Roseland Gardens, Redruth, were shortlisted from
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MP backs climate laws
Members of Falmouth area Friends of the Earth met with Julia Goldsworthy to ask her to support their campaign on a new climate change law. The meeting was attended by FalFoE members Sally Austin-Brown and Betty Levene and was organized as part of the
