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Perranporth School roundhouse built just as the Celts did
PUPILS at Perranporth School have used ancient skills, thatching and building walls out of cow dung to create their own Celtic roundhouse.Project leader Ellie Smitheram said the children experienced...
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World pasty champion Billy Deakin publishes first book
THE world pasty champion is sharing his recipes and tips in a new book.Billy Deakin, twice winner of the World Pasty Championships held at the Eden Project, has written a guide to preparing the...
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Jess and Toby are humbled by their visit to Auschwitz
TWO STUDENTS from a Newquay school visited the Auschwitz concentration camp as part of a history programme to ensure its horrors are never forgotten.Jess Ridgment and Toby Anderson Jones, of Newquay...
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Friends and family help brave Danny
"IT'S HEARTWRENCHING watching the children run from one end of the playground to the other when Danny only makes it halfway. They all want to run about and he is left on the side-lines."These are the...
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Mum Stacey Rodgers who lost son Dominic to carbon monoxide poisoning backs...
A MOTHER who found her ten-year-old son dead in his bed from carbon monoxide poisoning has backed The Cornishman's Making A Noise About The Silent Killer campaign.Stacey Rodgers heard about our...
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Van found ablaze in Foxhole
At 23.29pm on Saturday evening firefighters from St Dennis were called to a van on fire in Foxhole near St. Austell. The crew used one hosereel and two breathing apparatus sets to extinguish the...
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Arson suspected as cause of gorse fire near Launceston
Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service were called to a suspected arson fire near Launceston on Saturday evening. A little past 9pm the service received a call about a gorse fire in the Laneast area...
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Police 'increasingly concerned' for welfare of missing Cornwall woman
Devon & Cornwall Police say they are 'becoming increasingly concerned' for the welfare of Meryl Cameron, who has been missing from her home in Canonstown near Hayle since Friday evening.Her car, a...
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Sennen lifeguards deal with first major incident of the season
The 2013 season for the RNLI lifeguards at Sennen in West Cornwall started on Friday, and they have already dealt with their first major incident when a man collapsed in a local café. The alarm was...
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Cornish Pirates fall to Bedford Blues in Easter cracker
Cornish Pirates 18 Bedford Blues 26The Mennaye Field crowd were treated to an RFU Championship Easter Sunday cracker but it was Bedford Blues who claimed the spoils of victory with a strong second...
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Images chart a love affair with the cruel coast
An exhibition of maritime photographs described as a "visual love poem" of the coastline is on show in North Devon this week.The work of well-known Bideford photographer Dave Green, the display...
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Man and woman rescued from Newquay's Zacry's Island
TWO people had to be winched to safety from a Newquay island after they became trapped by the high tide last night.The man and woman found themselves clinging to the cliff face of Zacry's Island at...
View ArticleSt Austell crowned Junior Cup winners
Illogan RBL 1, St Austell 2 BEN Douglas scored in the 90th minute to clinch a dramatic victory for St Austell in the Westinsure Cornwall Junior Cup final at Saltash on Easter Monday. Illogan, beaten...
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Poor transport 'traps thousands of pensioners in their homes'
Transport cuts have left thousands of Westcountry pensioners trapped in their own homes despite free bus passes, a new charity survey has found.People aged over 75 are becoming increasingly isolated...
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Truro City's relegation confirmed after disputed late equaliser
Truro City 2 Basingstoke Town 2City's two year stay in Blue Square South came to an end in controversial fashion at Treyew Road on Easter Monday. Needing a win to have any remote hope of avoiding the...
View ArticleRedruth retain Cup with win over Camborne
CAMBORNE 31 REDRUTH 43 Redruth retained the Rodda's Milk Cup in an entertaining game played on Easter Monday, though both sides rested a number of key players for next weekend's important league...
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House prices in South West up by 1.3 per cent in March
House prices recorded an annual increase last month for the first time in more than a year, with South West prices up 1.3%, Nationwide has reported.Although prices were flat month-on-month in March at...
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New powers to tackle illegal travellers' sites
Westcountry councils are to be given stronger powers to stop illegal travellers' sites being set up, the Government has announced.Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said current...
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Calls for high taxes on second homes in Devon and Cornwall
Former poet laureate and countryside campaigner Sir Andrew Motion has launched an all-out attack on second home owners and called for a tax hike on "townies in the countryside".The president of the...
View ArticleExcellent Helston push holders Bodmin all the way in goalless final
Bodmin Town 0, Helston Athletic 0Bodmin and Helston must try again in a replay after playing out an entertaining goalless draw in the Cornwall Senior Cup final at a bitterly cold Kimberley Stadium,...
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