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Cornwall election delay
Cornwall county council is to ask the Government to delay staging elections to the new Cornwall Council until October 22, this year to enable them to be held on the basis of 123 councillors for a full four year term of office. Normally elections would
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Road works for Helston
Resurfacing works will take place in Helston on Godolphin Road and Wendron Street from Monday 9., February 9, for a week. Cornwall county council has apologised in advance for what will be “unavoidable disruption” involved in carrying out these important
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New Cornwall council still to sort out staffing
The new Cornwall unitary authority is heading for trouble if the staffing situation is not sorted out soon. An official of the new authority confirmed to the Packet this week that the proposed staffing structures for all services were still being scrutinised
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Truro road works will hit city centre
Works will take place in Truro city centre from Monday February 2 for five days on the junction of Little Castle Street and Kenwyn Street to repair a collapsed drainage system. CORMAC will be carrying out the works and apologise for the unavoidable disruption
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King Harry Ferry road to close in February
The main road to the King Harry Ferry is being closed for the second two weeks of February. The road between Playing Place and King Harry, as shown in the will be closed from February 9 to 20 for road works and all traffic will be diverted via Come
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High Tides
NEWLYN Wednesday, January 28 05.51 (5.40) 18.05 (5.15) Thursday, January 29 06.23 (5.42) 18.36 (5.16) Friday, January 30 06.56 (5.39) 19.08 (5.11) Saturday, January 31 07.28 (5.30) 19.42 (5.02) Sunday, February 1 08.03 (
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Redruth’s Pancake Day Party
REDRUTH Children’s Centre is planning a fun filled evening of activities for Pancake Day and would like to invite local families to come and join in. The Centre will be offering the chance to sample delicious sweet and savoury pancake dishes. This will
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Falmouth parish church in £100,000 improvement bid
Falmouth’s parish church is pushing ahead with an improvement project set to cost almost £100,000. King Charles the Martyr’s parochial church council voted by a clear majority at their last meeting to continue with the plans to install a lift
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Legendary Radio 1 DJ to play Falmouth show
THE award winning Zane Lowe brings his legendary DJ skills to the Stannary at Falmouth on Saturday, March 7. Presenter of Radio 1’s massively popular ‘Evening show’ Lowe is devoted to finding and playing really good new music, the same devotion is
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Mullion youth group in boatbuilding taster
Seven 16-year-olds from Mullion Youth Group have visited Falmouth Marine School for a taste of wooden boat building. The boat building taster session gave the group an opportunity to try something new and make something that they could take home with
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Reel Big Fish drop into Falmouth on world tour.
REEL Big Fish, one of the many Southern California ska-punk bands to edge into the mainstream following the commercial success of No Doubt and Sublime, will be back in Cornwall to play the Princess Pavilion Falmouth on February 22 as part of their
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Falmouth celebrates Ruarri Joseph's album launch
LOUIS Eliot, the former main man of 90s Britpop Romantics, Rialto, will be performing at the Princess Pavilion in Falmouth on Friday, February 6 as part of Ruarri Joseph's album launch. Rialto enjoyed three UK top 40 hits and a top 20 album, and toured
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Truro Pavarotti Tribute Concert
AUDIENCES in Truro can enjoy a star-studded tribute concert to Luciano Pavarotti, held in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan - at their local cinema in February. The Pavarotti Tribute concert, devised by the late Italian tenor's wife and organised
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Get Loved Up at Chantek
ANYONE feeling a bit down about the prospect of being single on Valentine’s Day should head over to Chantek restaurant in Truro for one of their Speed Dating events taking place on February 3 (21–35 year olds) and February 10 (30-50 year olds
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Mawnan Quiz
On Thursday, January 29 starting at 7.30pm a quiz is being held in the Memorial Hall at Mawnan Smith in aid of the Mermaid Appeal. Thirty teams are taking part and there will be a very generously donated raffle. The quiz is being run by Rod Allday (well
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Chynhale Chapel
CHYNHALE CHAPEL: Sunday morning service was conducted by Elaine Harris of Goldsithney and the organist was John Gilbert. The young people enjoyed playing a game which Elaine had organised – picking up magnetic fishes. She then went on to say that Jesus
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Degibna Methodist Church
DEGIBNA METHODIST CHURCH: The Covenant Service on Sunday was conducted by the Rev Andrew Hill. Holy Communion was administered at the close of the serve. The organist was Joyce Oliver.
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Apostolic Church
APOSTOLIC CHURCH, THOMAS STREET: This week marks the start of the third Alpha Course which will begin at 12.30pm on Thursday and will continue for eight weeks. A light lunch will be provided, followed by a talk and discussion, ending at 2pm. Over two
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St Michael's Church
ST MICHAEL’S CHURCH: Parish Communion combined several themes - the ongoing season of Epiphany, the feast of the Conversion of St Paul and the church’s ministry of healing. The Rector, Canon David Miller, introduced the service, with the Rev Dorothy
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St Bartholomew's Church
ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH: Sunday's services for the third Sunday of Epiphany, the Conversion of Paul, was taken by Father Harry Pugh. Francoise Ziemann and Maureen Williams read the lessons at the 9.30am service and Esther Brown led the intercessions.
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Trinity Methodist Church
TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH: Brian Teague took the service on Sunday with help from Elizabeth Tremayne, who read the First Lesson and Hazel Treloar and Susan Bennetts the Second. Hilda Steven brought the lovely roses for the table. Tegan and Treve collected
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Godolphin Cross News
METHODISTS: The service on Sunday was conducted by Tony Nicholas of Porthleven. Mavis Harper was the organist. PRIMARY SCHOOL: The school is very grateful to parents and friends who come in and read to the children. If there is anyone with time to
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Falmouth U3A
UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE FALMOUTH GROUP: Once again St Mary’s Church Hall, Falmouth was full as an eager audience waited for Dean Evans to give an illustrated talk on Cornish borne Victorian philanthropist James Passmore Edwards. A name well known
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Sentimental items stolen in St Day burglary
A St Day woman is furious that burglars broke into her house and stole a brass plaque marking the sacrifice of a relative in the Great War. The burglars struck at the home of Sharon Penhaligon, 45, between 8am and 6pm on Thursday, January 22 and made
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Falmouth Parish of Penwerris
PARISH OF PENWERRIS: Sunday was the Conversion of St Paul and Father Mark Mesley celebrated the Parish Mass at St Michael and All Angels Church. Stuart Paul was the organist and Mr D G Barnicoat and Mr J B Bray were the servers. The Introit hymn We sing
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Carleen panto appeal for "vital" props
The director of this year’s pantomime in Carleen has warned he risks being bald by the end of the production unless vital props can be found. Dugg Polman, director of Carleen Pantomime Group who are this year stage Beauty and the Beast, said
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Falmouth hosts special film for maritime trust
A Cornish maritime Trust film showing the history and restoration of Barnabas, a 19th century 39 foot St Ives dipping lugger is to be shown in Falmouth on Saturday. As an important piece of Cornish maritime heritage Barnabas is one of the few remaining
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Methodist Church
FLUSHING METHODIST CHURCH: The congregation welcomed members of St Peter’s Church for the annual service of Christian Unity. The service was led by the Rev Rose Westwood and the organist was Morwenna Bennett. The Lessons were read by John Ollerenshaw
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Falmouth church celebrates successful charity festival
Falmouth's All Saints Church has given thanks to everybody that helped and supported 2008's festival of Christmas trees. There were many visitors over the Christmas period and thanks to their help the church was able to send donations to Penhaligon's
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Truro College suffers £2,000 worth of damage
Around £2,000 worth of damage has been caused at Truro College after a large number of lights were damaged outside one of the buildings. Police in Truro have today appealed for information about how the lights around the Lyner building came to be damaged
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Falmouth St Mary's Church
ST MARY’S CHURCH: On Sunday, January 18, the scripture readings told how the boy Samuel was told to listen to the call of God and the first disciples of Jesus followed Him to listen to Him. This was a fitting introduction to the Week of Prayer
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Gunwalloe beaches to be cleaned by volunteers
Two beaches at Gunwalloe are being cleaned by volunteers this Sunday as part of a National Trust campaign to clean up some of the county’s favourite family spots. Both Church Cove and Dollar Cove are in line for a spruce up, with the big clean designed
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Falmouth All Saints' Parish Church
ALL SAINTS’ PARISH CHURCH: Sunday was celebrated in remembrance of one of the most dramatic incidents of the early Christian church, the conversion of St Paul, or Saul as he was then known. The drama that took place on the Damascus Road resulting
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Truro city centre clock to undergo essential repairs
Essential maintenance is to be carried out on The Clock House at Truro’s Lemon Quay after the cold weather caused the clock to stop working. The site is well known in Truro and houses 17 apartments on the first and second floors and JD Weatherspoon