![]() Topic: NewsThe new items published under this topic are as follows.CORNWALL TRADING STANDARDS “STING” OPERATION ATTRACTS 500 POTENTIAL ‘VICTIMS’Looking For Financial Freedom? Looking for an opportunity that requires no experience and no product knowledge and yet gives you lucrative commissions and bonuses? If so just visit www.opportunitycornwall.com. Penwith: £3.8 MILLION TO CREATE FINEST MUSEUM AT GEEVOR TIN MINECornwall Council’s Environment and Heritage Service has received funding approval for the development stage of a £3.8 million project to create the UK’s finest museum of hard rock mining at Geevor Tin Mine. North Cornwall: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR RHODODENDRON CLEARANCE ON THE CLAY TRAILS MONDAY- JUNE 5Volunteers are needed to help clear rhododendrons on the newly constructed clay trails between 10 am and 3pm on Monday, June 5th. COUNCIL'S HEALTH SCRUTINY COMMITTEE AWAITS OUTCOME OF NHS FUNDING REPORTIn front of a public gallery packed with around 50 people calling for an independent review of Cornwall's health services, the Council's Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee today agreed to examine the findings of an imminent Market Forces report into NHS funding. Caradon: LAST CHANCE TO HAVE YOUR SAY ON HOUSING NEEDSTime is running out for people in South East Cornwall to take part in an affordable housing needs survey that will help plan the area’s provision up to 2011. COUNCIL TELLS DAVID MILIBAND OF “ SERIOUS CONCERNS” OVER DELAYS TO FARMSCornwall Council has written to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to express its serious concerns over the delay in paying the Single Farm Payment to the Cornwall’s farmers. Caradon: £1.8 MILLION SECURED FOR REGENERATION PROJECT OF EAST CORNWALLCornwall Council's Landscape and Urban Design Unit has recently secured £1.8 million of funding for the East Cornwall Regeneration Project. Kerrier: 60 NEW JOBS IN BIG NEW ROLE FOR OLD MINING SITESixty new jobs are being created in a £2 million scheme to re-launch a former Cornish tin mining site as a major showcase opportunity for the South West’s most talented artisans and entrepreneurs. Kerrier: NEW GUIDE DEPICTS CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGEA new free guide has been produced which celebrates the £6 million Mineral Tramways Heritage Project currently underway in Camborne, Redruth, Gwennap and St. Day. CORNWALL COUNCIL’S LEADER AND CHAIRMAN RE-ELECTEDDavid Whalley has been re-elected as the Leader of Cornwall County Council. £42 MILLION CORNISH HARBOURS PROJECT BEING ASSESSED FOR LOTTERY FUNDINGAn ambitious £42 million project to refurbish five harbours - amounting to the greatest ever refurbishment of Cornwall's waterfronts - is being scrutinised by assessors later this month as part of a bid for £25 million funding from the National Lottery's 'Living Landmarks' programme. EC COMMISSIONER VISITS TO SEE HOW CORNWALL IS BUILDING A BRIGHTER FUTUREThe European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Danuta Hübner, is visiting Cornwall on 22 May to see for herself how Cornwall has already used EC Structural Funding, and to hear how the Duchy intends to use the next round of post-Objective One investment. Caradon: AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEEDS SURVEY FOR SOUTH EAST CORNWALL6,600 people in South East Cornwall are to be asked about local affordable housing needs to help plan the area’s provision up to 2011. REPLACING LONG GALLERY CARPET TO COST AT LEAST HALF THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATECornwall Council has agreed to replace the carpet in the Long Gallery at County Hall with a carpet of similar quality – with Councillors told that the costs will be at least half that of the original estimate of £70,000. Kerrier: TV SPOTLIGHT FOR CORNISH HOUSING BREAKTHROUGHA Cornish company’s success in helping to combat the housing crisis facing young home-seekers is to be highlighted in a television documentary. Kerrier: Bridging the gap for first time buyersShared Ownership scheme offers a ‘leg-up’ onto the housing ladder Coastline Housing is helping local first time buyers to beat the affordable homes crisis, by offering properties on a ‘part buy, part rent’ basis. COUNCIL STAGES PUBLIC WASTE CONTROL EXHIBITIONSCornwall Council is staging a series of public exhibitions throughout the Cornwall during May and June to enable members of the public to have their say on the Waste Local Plan. CORNISH FARMER SIGNS UP TO HLSHigher Level Stewardship (HLS) has come to Cornwall bringing a new level of environmental protection and improvements to the county’s farmland and natural areas. LEARNING AND TEACHING FOR BILINGUAL CHILDREN IN CORNISH SCHOOLSMeeting the needs of children from other countries who do not speak English as their first language is the responsibility of the whole school community, with everyone working together to make them feel welcome and valued and help them to learn. Carrick: JOBS JOY AS EXPORTER EXPANDSThirty-seven jobs have been secured and four more created at a Truro firm embarking on a big expansion programme to boost its competitiveness in the global market place. |
Cornwall News
Independent review team is named Charity hospices in £1m shortfall Two hospices that care for thousands of terminally ill adults could be forced to close in a funding shortfall. Man admits unrelated sex attacks A man arrested in Cornwall admits sex offences and an attempted murder committed nearly a decade apart. Death crash footballer has been jailed Ex-Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick is jailed for killing two children by dangerous driving. Sanctuary in financial 'crisis' A Cornish animal sanctuary, which is home to more than 50 horses, struggles to cover rising fuel and feed costs. Text service for the deaf grows A service allowing deaf and speech impaired people to text emergency services is rolled out in Cornwall. Court seizes hundreds of knives More than 200 people are caught carrying knives into a court building in Cornwall in 2008. Teenager dragged from rip current A teenage girl is in intensive care after nearly drowning while swimming off St Ives in Cornwall. |