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Race For Life Event 2007
Well here I go again!! I'm back in intense training for this year's Race For Life event in Falmouth on May 20. It's so exciting. This will be the third race that I have participated in and the atmosphere everytime so far has been amazing. It's girl power
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Wins for college students
University College Falmouth's BA(Hons) Graphic Design course swept the boards at this year's FutureTalent Awards claiming six out of a possible nine. Ryan Tym was announced the overall winner of FutureTalent 2006, Alex Stewart won the Packaging category
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Diary of a Reluctant Runner
Day 1: Saturday 17/02/07 (part two) Have just returned from an hour at the gym. Feel tired but strangely exhilarated. They say that exercise is like a drug and once you start partaking in it regularly you want more and more; I have previously always
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Search for panto dame - for a bottle of beer
The hunt is on for a Cornish "panto dame" to bring to life the famous face on the label of a top British beer. The befuddled Betty Stoggs character is a big part of the beer's success story - in 2005 the ale was judged one of the top six best bitters
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5,000 customers for Penryn firm
A Penryn-based telecommunications company is celebrating after taking on its 5,000th business customer. 4tel, which supplies businesses across the UK with a range of landline, broadband, mobile and 08 number services have just secured the milestone
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Old pictures wanted for Falmouth museum
Due to a huge response, the Maritime Museum is extending its call for entries to the "Your Falmouth" exhibition by another week. Anyone with any historic pictures of Falmouth, the River Fal and surrounding towns and villages, is being encouraged not
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Diary of a Reluctant Runner
Day 1: Saturday 17/02/07 Even as a young child I was never what you would call “sporty.” In school PE lessons, while I never went so far as to “forget” my kit (we all know how that backfires, when made to wear some foul-smelling pair of gym shorts that
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St Gluvias pull off shock win
ST Gluvias CC B pulled off a shock 5-4 win over Penryn Bowling Club in the Penryn and Falmouth Winter League, first division of Old EPA Rules. Trelowarren Arms' 5-4 win over the Workingman's moved them into second place, while Les Rundle's eight-ball
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Youngsters provide high quality show
Parents and spectators were treated to a feast of high-quality badminton overt two weekends when Cornwall Youth Badminton staged three sections of the Cornwall Junior Restricted Annual Championships, writes John Tresidder, with Tony Poole. The under-
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Tigers produce upset against fancied White Hart ‘A’
Tuckingmill Tigers produced the result of the season so far in the Jolly's Camborne-Redruth Premier Pool League as Simon O'Mahony's side recorded a great 10-5 victory at home to the much-fancied White Hart A'. The star of the night was the Tigers' Ron
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Spacious terraced townhouse
FIVE Clifton Crescent in Falmouth (above) is a surprisingly spacious terraced townhouse which has been upgraded over recent years with a re-fitted bathroom and kitchen. It offers versatile accommodation which comprises a lounge, ground floor bedroom,
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Tougher justice would clear-out the prisons
WE would like to ask this government, especially John Reid, the home secretary, why the prisons are full to capacity. We think today's prisoners have cushy surroundings like four star hotels. We truly think there's no justice anymore like there was 50
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Boslowick-Penmere area has no bus shelters at all
I READ with interest the letter from Barrie Elliott (Don't make elderly wait for a bus shelter). Golden Bank residents should feel honoured to have had a shelter at all! Those of us who live in the Boslowick/Penmere area have never had that privilege.
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Walker’s £10,000 boost for lifeboat
THE fund for a new Lizard lifeboat has been given a £10,000 boost, thanks to an epic walk by former actress Jannina Henderson. Jannina, who lives near Bath, spent 11 months last year walking 4,500-miles around the coast of Britain, taking trackless
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Superb performance by choir after a ‘nightmare’ journey
Youngsters from St Michael's School in Helston flew the flag for Cornwall when they took part in the final of a national singing competition at the weekend. Despite setbacks, including a 15-hour journey to get to the contest, members of the school
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Public speaking success for pupils
It was almost a clean sweep for pupils at a Falmouth primary school when they showed of their public speaking skills in the local round of the Rotary Youth Speaks competition. Two teams from year six at St Francis Primary School entered the competition
