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  • Applications for Tehidy Country Park Café licence invited

    THE licence for the café at Tehidy Country Park is due for renewal and Cornwall county council is inviting anyone ready for challenge to show their interest in the business. Tehidy Country Park is located three miles from Camborne, Pool and Redruth and

  • MP calls for affordable homes to be priority

    MP Matthew Taylor has congratulated Restormel Borough Council on plans to increase the amount of affordable housing required on all new developments to 50 per cent in rural areas and 40 per cent in larger towns and cities, and is calling on local authorities

  • From mine stack to housing

    The first steps in the transformation of an historic Redruth mine site into a modern residential development are now under way. Construction of 40 flats and houses in Wesley Street - on the site of the original Pednandrea tin and copper mine close to

  • College students help the young

    Truro College Students from the Foundation Degree in Public Services were given a great opportunity to enhance their work based learning by working along side members of The Cornwall Children and Young Peoples Partnership. The Partnership is made up

  • Cornwall is bridging skills gap to meet industry needs.

    Cornwall College's agriculture, horticulture and animal care vocational courses run through its Duchy College based at Rosewarne near Camborne and Stoke Climsland near Callington are providing students with the relevant skills to meet industry needs

  • Tregony Church Hall revamp

    Local builders Rok rolled up their sleeves alongside village volunteers to complete a two-day community challenge to revamp Tregony Church Hall. Staff from Rok's Truro office had been carrying out a two-week refurbishment of the church's toilets but

  • Cornwall is bridging the skills gap to meet industry needs.

    Cornwall College's agriculture, horticulture and animal care vocational courses run through its Duchy College based at Rosewarne near Camborne and Stoke Climsland near Callington are providing students with the relevant skills to meet industry needs according

  • Man cut free from vehicle after crash at Probus

    FIREFIGHTERS were called out early this morning after a car collided with a gatepost near Probus. The incident happened at around 7am outside of the Freewater Lodge, Probus. The accident involved one vehicle that had hit a gatepost. One appliance form

  • Success for Truro High School runners

    ALL three Truro High School cross-country running teams won their events in this month's Carrick primary schools competition. As a result eight of the 16 girls who took part will be representing Carrick at the Penryn Partnerships event next month. This

  • Friends donate equipment to health centre

    THE Friends of Falmouth Health Centre have donated around £1,000 worth of medical equipment to the surgery. The group, which holds various fundraising event throughout the year, collected enough funds to buy a £400 hearing aid loop and two £300 blood

  • Torpedo headed for martime museum

    Underwater warfare is a key element of the Maritime Museum's soon to be launched Under the Sea exhibition and this week, Cornwall's Visitor Attraction of the Year in Falmouth, saw the delivery of a replica 1930s Italian Mark 1 human torpedo. Never intended

  • Black Dyke Band heading for Cornwall

    A marketing and public relations manager with a well known estate agents in Cornwall has pulled off a major coup in the brass banding world. Bruce Taylor, who works for Miller Countrywide Estate Agents has booked the Black Dyke Band - probably the most

  • More funding needed to investigate adit

    KERRIER district council has agreed to apply for more funding to investigate the stability of the Troon Adit. Parts f the village, near Camborne, have been affected by flooding and ground movement which has caused the blocked structure, know as Troon

  • Bridge lead by handy margin

    The West Cornwall Table Tennis League has, for most sides, reached the halfway stage of the season. The premier division leaders Bridge A have established a 13-point lead over rivals Falmouth Docks A who have one match in hand. Team mates Bridge