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Shipping intelligence
Tuesday, April 10 RFA Mounts Bay L3008 (23,569/05) moved from No. 2 dry-dock to Queens Wharf. Marshall Islands tanker Mare Action (23,240/05) arrived from Rouen, France, for bunkers in Falmouth Bay and sailed for Milford Haven. Barbudan coaster Torrent
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High Tides
FALMOUTH Thursday, April 19 06.22 (5.6) 18.41 (5.5) Friday, April 20 07.07 (5.4) 19.22 (5.4) Saturday, April 21 07.50 (5.1) 20.00 (5.2) Sunday, April 22 08.33 (4.8) 20.38 (4.9) Monday, April 23 09.20 (4.4) 21.22 (4.5) Tuesday, April 24
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Cruiseship season begins in style with inaugural visits by two ships
The 2007 cruiseship season begins in grand style next week with the arrival of the 90,000 ton cruiseships, Constellation and Jewel of the Seas, carrying up to 5,000, mainly American, passengers. Both vessels are inward bound from Fort Lauderdale, USA
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Frigate will be open to public during three-day stay
HMS Portland, a Type 23 frigate based at Devonport, will interrupt a period of intense training off the south coast by making a three day visit to the port starting on Friday. While HMS Portland continues her training and refreshes her operational capability
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Hay Bales Set on Fire
ARSON is suspected after three large bales of hay were set on fire in the St Gluvias area of Penryn on Tuesday morning. One appliance from Falmouth was mobilised and on arrival the crew found three large bales of hay alight, the crews allowed the hay
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Falmouth course prepares war zone journalists
With security for international journalists brought into sharp focus as a result of the recent disappearance of the BBC's Alan Johnston, University College Falmouth is doing everything it can to help protect the international journalists of the future
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Roman vessels in Truro
Two complete Roman pottery vessels, likely to date back to the second century AD, were handed over to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro today. The rare urns, which contained cremated remains, were discovered by archaeologists from Cornwall County Council's
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Getting ready for the blooms
Hayle in Bloom organisers are urging everyone to keep their spring blooms tended and streets tidy for the unannounced visit by RHS Britain in Bloom judges to over the next few weeks. Some time between now and May 13 all the finalists in RHS Britain in
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Mullion are well beaten
TORPOINT 6 MULLION 1 TORPOINT went into this Women's Cornwall League semi-final fixture clearly the under-dogs, against a Mullion side who hold second place in division one. Torpoint took control of the game very early on, as Mullion's very poor form
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Falmouth’s spirit not enough to halt Saints
ST AUSTELL 7 FALMOUTH LADIES 1ST XI 2 SOUTH Division league champions Falmouth travelled to Bodmin aware that their Cornwall Cup final meeting with St Austell, who play two leagues above the level Falmouth will compete at next season, would be a tough
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Excellent start for Falmouth’s juniors
IT'S been a busy two weeks for the junior section at Falmouth Golf Club. Falmouth played their first league match of the season away at Killiow and obtained an excellent result, drawing 3-3 with wins from Katie Rule, Luke Geach and Joe Durkin. Falmouth
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Fog plays its part
THE morning's golf at Culdrose Golf Club started with a thick fog making it difficult for the long hitters, however, once again some good scores came in. The game of the day was Individual Stableford. In first place with a great score of 43 points
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Cornwall beaten
FOR their penultimate match of the season in the Premier Division of the British Inter Counties Darts Championship, Cornwall made the trip to Essex and made a good start on the Saturday with the Women's B 5-1 winners and even though the Men's B lost 7
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Big profit in buying to fix up
First-time buyers aiming to purchase a home could consider buying a property in need of refurbishment work as a means of saving their nest egg. Paul Holmes, chief executive officer of first time buyer mortgage site Firstrung, believes buying a "fixer-upper
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Close to town centre
A FINE opportunity has arisen to purchase an incredibly well-presented, well-proportioned semi-detached residence within the highly regarded area of Pine Close in Helston. Miller Countrywide are offering the property, which is popular due to its closeness
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Funny but this house has a ha ha!
THIS three bedroom detached bungalow in a quiet cul-de-sac location, yet within easy walk of Falmouth town centre, is offered to the market by the local Miller and Son branch at £325,000. Gardens surround the property and the rear garden has a "ha-ha
