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  • Dr Hook lead singer on tour

    Sylvia's Mother, A Little Bit More, When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman, The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan, Cover of the Rolling Stone..classic songs and world-wide hits. These were the melodies and lyrics that set Dr Hook on the path to major international

  • Brothers who crashed stolen car face prison

    Two brothers who took a car and then crashed it at a Falmouth beach may face prison. Benjamin Robert Russell, from Saracen Place in Penryn, and his 28-year-old brother Dylan James Russell, from Newquay, both pleaded guilty to the offences of aggravated

  • He just Keeps On Runnin’

    The Princess Pavilion kicks off its Spring programme this week on Thursday, February 1, with 60s legends the Spencer Davis Group, led by the rock star from Wales on his So Far So Good Tour 2007. They'll be performing all their exciting Top 40 songs including

  • Park and Stride scheme launched

    A new Park and Stride scheme has been launched at St Meriadoc Nursery and Infants School in Camborne which means that parents can now park in the nearby Aldi car park and walk the last part of the way to school. St Meriadoc Nursery and Infants School

  • Gate stolen from cemetery

    A gate worth £585 has been stolen from Falmouth Cemetery just over a year after it was installed. The gate was put up at the cemetery during refurbishment work carried out by Falmouth town council last year and is believed to have been stolen sometime

  • Students raise money for cot death research

    Students from Truro College's National Diploma in Health Studies have raised £207.16 for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Death. The Foundation is the UK's leading baby charity aiming to prevent unexpected deaths in infancy and promote infant

  • Touring opera company to present three works

    English Touring Opera returns to Hall for Cornwall this April with two new productions, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Mozart's The Seraglio (Die Entührung aus dem Serail), and a staged concert with waltzes, Johann Strauss's Spirit of Vienna (Wiener

  • Highlights of a walk from Penryn to Falmouth

    THIS is my tale of an average day's walk from Penryn to Falmouth. I close my front door and look down my street, because, despite it being one way, motor bikes travel up the street the wrong way, and some cars reverse all the way up to save driving around

  • Liberals are not running the county council

    SKIPPER stated in a recent article that the Liberals were running County Hall. As I am the only Liberal elected to Cornwall county council, I can reassure you all that I am not running the show. However, there is a political group there called the Liberal-Democrats

  • Enter Shikari to play Pavilion

    Enter Shikari, who are currently taking the UK by storm, will be visiting Falmouth's Princess Pavilion as part of their March tour in just a few weeks. The number of bands that would have the confidence to approach the 2,000-capacity Astoria for a headline

  • Couple help rebuild school

    A Falmouth couple will be holding a garage sale to raise money to help rebuild a school in Thailand that was devastated by the 2004 tsunami. Ann and Roy Picken, who own the Lerryn Hotel, will run the event from their De Pass Road home on Saturday. All

  • Investigation upgraded to attempted murder

    Police hunting for a 45-year-old man in connection with a Penryn stabbing have upgraded the investigation to an attempted murder enquiry. Officers have been anxious to trace Michael Turvey ever since a 57-year-old man was stabbed in Praze Meadow just

  • Bike Chain clinch third successive title

    BIKE Chain completed a hat trick of wins in the Taylor's Tyre Service Carn Brea Five-a-side League's Leisure Centre Cup, winning for the third consecutive year. With four teams from Tuesdays and Thursdays making the knockout stages, all teams were put

  • Helston School lift county title after dramatic final

    Helston School and Community College 5 Dan Greet, James Clarke (2), Jowan Shainberg, David Hilliard Saltash.net Community School 4 JordanTaylor, Jordan Copp (2), Stefan Paul Helston School and Community College squad: Jordan Allen; Steve Jenkins

  • Nigel partners Paul to victory

    The sixth round of Falmouth Golf Club's men's winter league took place on Saturday in difficult conditions with only 58 members entering the competition. The course is very wet at the moment after all the rain of the previous week and this, combined

  • Frostbites put to the sword

    A COLD wintry showery morning greeted players on Sunday at Falmouth Bowling Club for the continuation of the Men's Triples League. League leaders Chacewater/ Falmouth Frostbites, skipped by Tony Nancholas with Colin Smith at No 2 and Rob Brown leading

  • Champs are back to best

    WENDRON Cricket Club returned to form last week in division one of the West Cornwall Winter Pool League with a 7-2 win over second placed team Helston RBL A. They now have a 16-point lead at the top. Helston FC A moved to within a point of second

  • Triples down to semi-finals

    IN the Penryn-Falmouth and District Pool League's World Rules Triples competition, only one quarter-final result came through with M Young, N Young, and C Southworth winning 5-1 against A Williams, P Robinson and C Topley. They will play S Munday, D

  • Marathon man goes for hat-trick

    For the third year in a row a 23-year-old from The Lizard is set to put on his running shoes in memory of his grandparents. David Norton, who works at Abbey in Helston, is once again taking part in the London Marathon, running for Cornwall Hospice Care

  • Bus shelters may return to town’s main streets

    A charity set up to support the elderly has called for bus shelters to be reinstated in Helston's main street. Helston Age Concern has written to the town council urging them to put bus shelters on both sides of the road in Coinagehall Street, just as