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Minnows are back
The Maritime Museum’s Minnows sessions are back, bigger and better than ever for 2009 on Friday January 30. Museum Minnows at the Maritime Museum are multi-sensory sessions designed to stimulate a whole range of senses and are tailored specifically for
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Truro museum looks at county landscape
Visitors to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro are being given the opportunity to look at the Cornish landscape in very different ways. From a coffin to a water still and from a unique arrangement of burnt sticks to photos of camouflaged menhirs, The
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Truro girls go silversmithing
Three Truro College degree students studying Silversmithing have been awarded bursaries to aid them in their continued study and creation of their crafts. The bursaries will enable them to create their final pieces in their chosen precious metal. Alison
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New rector for Falmouth university
Professor Anne Carlisle has been announced as the new Rector of University College Falmouth following Professor Alan Livingston’s decision to retire at the end of this academic year. Currently Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) of the University of Wales
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Helston and Falmouth on vintage run
The Cornwall Austin Seven Club was in the Falmouth and Helston area for one of the regular monthly runs at the weekend. Members with fourteen 'Sevens' met at Carnon Downs and then travelled through the lanes around Penelewey and Porth Kea before going
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Truro runner braves all
The official site says “Welcome to the world of lunatics and masochists” and on the face of it competitors in the Marathon Des Sables, the toughest foot race on earth, must be slightly mad to attempt the 151-mile marathon through the Moroccan Sahara in
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Falmouth harbour commissioners welcome new members
Falmouth Harbour Commissioners (FHC) has welcomed two new members of staff to the team. The appointments are for two new roles within the company; Maritime Sustainability Development Officer and Assistant Harbour Master. The role of Maritime Sustainability
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Flushing rowers receive grant aid
The recently formed Flushing Rowing Club were thrilled to receive news this week that their application to Awards for All has been successful. Awards For All (Lottery Grants for Local Groups) has awarded £5,865 to the Club to help provide new sporting
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Lizard lifeboat receives healthy boost from fruit and veg partygoers
Proving that fruit and vegetables can produce a healthy figure, fancy dress partygoers helped raise £1,010 for a new Lizard lifeboat station. The Five a Day fancy dress ball was hosted by the Oates family at the Cornish Camel Centre, Rosuick Farm near
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Anglers in protest at EU proposals to sign up in Falmouth
On Saturday, Neil Parish, MEP for Cornwall will be in Falmouth to help launch a national petition opposing suggestions that all leisure anglers log their catches. The petition will then circulate all over the region and elsewhere and placed
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Methodist Church
STITHIANS METHODIST CHURCH: The morning service was led by the Rev Brian Mavers and the organist was Colin Anthony. The evening service was led by Tom and Lucille Rowse, and the preacher was Gerald Triggs. The hymns were accompanied by Tom Rowse on guitar
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Falmouth Friends of Princess Pavilion
FRIENDS OF PRINCESS PAVILION: On Thursday the friends held the first free patio entertainment for 2009 and were very lucky to have a dry, calm day. The Cober Valley Accordion Band provided the entertainment and the delighted audience joined in the singing
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Increase in dead dolphins in Cornwall
The Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine Strandings Network has reported an increase in stranded dolphins in recent weeks. Over a three day period, between January 17 and 19, the Marine Strandings Network's volunteers have responded to calls to six strandings
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Rabbits dumped on roadside near Newquay
The RSPCA is appealing for information after three rabbits were abandoned in Cornwall. The young adult rabbits, one black female and two brown males were found in individual boxes in a communal car park on Tremant Road, Newquay, by a member of the public
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Truro museum takes on film set
Anyone visiting the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro at the weekend could have been forgiven for thinking they had either entered a different galaxy or they had somehow wandered into the middle of a film set. To celebrate the launch of an
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Falmouth KCM
CHURCH OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR: On Thursday there will be a service of Holy Communion at 10.30am when the celebrant will be the Rev Barrington Bennetts. Charlie’s Angels, KCM’s group for toddlers and babies, are taking a short break and there will
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Penryn St Gluvias Church
ST GLUVIAS CHURCH: Canon John Harris was the celebrant and preacher at the Parish Mass in honour of The Conversion of St Paul. The first reading, taken from the book of Jeremiah chapter 1 v 4-10, was read by Christopher Gardner. The second reading taken
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Falmouth lifeboat crew members talk of cruiser fire
Falmouth lifeboat crews have spoken today of the fire which totally destroyed a luxury cabin cruiser at the weekend although its owners escaped injury. It was about 1.30am on Saturday morning the crews of both the inshore and offshore lifeboats
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Step Up Cornwall – The Schools
THIRTY-THREE school dance teams from across Cornwall will gather at Penryn Sports College between 2pm and 5pm on Tuesday, February 10 to battle it out in the Street Dance Championship, STEP UP CORNWALL – The Schools. The competitors, who will include
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Cathedral Choir to perform live on BBC Radio 3
TRURO Cathedral Choir have been given the tremendous privilege of performing live on BBC Radio 3. They will sing Choral Evensong on Wednesday, January 28 at 4pm in the Cathedral. If you are around Truro on Wednesday then you might want to come
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Truro High School celebrate glowing report
Truro High School for Girls is not only the best school in Cornwall for both GCSE and A level results according to the latest league table results, a newly published inspection report says that it is also outstanding in many other respects.
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Falmouth man reaches south pole
Cornishman Gary Bullen from Falmouth and his team have arrived at the South Pole. Twenty days and nine hours after departing from the start line, his Team Dankse Bank reached the far end of the earth in third place. Following in the steps of Amundsen
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Helston rooftop anti arms trade protest
Anti arms trade activists occupied the roof of a Helston gun company this morning. Two young people from the group called Stop Kernow Arms Trade clambered onto the roof of Helston Gunsmiths, located on Water-ma-Trout industrial estate at 7am
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Mabe dancers raise almost £3,500
A line dancing troupe from Mabe have handed over the fruits of a year’s fundraising to charity. The Misty Mountain Line Dancers put their best foot forward in 2008 to raise £3,413 for the Radio Cornwall Appeal charity. In the six years they have been
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Penryn Methodist Church
PENRYN METHODIST CHURCH: Mary Mavers, formally of the Redruth Circuit, which has now joined together with other churches and has become the Falmouth & Gwennap Circuit, was welcomed to morning service by Margaret Dancer. Mrs Mavers read the first lesson
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Hedgerows decorated with bags of dog poo
I NOTICE that our seasonal habit of decorating Christmas trees has now spread to our hedgerows. The decorations take the form of plastic bags full of dog poo, randomly thrown into the hedges, adjacent our footpaths! Unlike our Christmas tree decorations
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Helston primary school to host child road safety event
The first road safety conference for children is being hosted by a Helston primary school. The Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO) Conference is being held tomorrow morning at St Michael’s Primary School. Members of Cornwall county council’s Road Safety
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Cornwall logo - U-turn by council leader
The new proposed logo for Cornwall Council could be put on the back burner. It has provoked so much discussion, David Whalley, the leader of the county council has asked the implementation executive to look again at the decision and has done a U-turn
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Truro and Falmouth lift rescues
It was a bad day for getting shut in enclosed spaces on Saturday when three people became trapped in lifts in Truro and Falmouth. Fire fighters were first called to Pydar Street in Truro, at 3.25pm. They quickly released the two people
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Child injured in Camborne car collision
A 10 year old boy was rushed to hospital this morning after being hit by a car in Camborne. Police and other emergency services were called out to the collision on College Street involving a VW Golf at 8.05am. The boy was taken to the