Wednesday, 19 November 2008
BNP in Cornwall
According to the BNP's membership list, the party has 41 members in Cornwall - in North Cornwall and in Truro, Hayle, Penzance, Marazion and Falmouth...
Police officers among BNP members listed on web
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Monday, 17 November 2008
Dogs on beaches 8
Out of season the beaches in St Ives are becoming canine latrines. But why should dog owners bother finding a more suitable place when there's the whole of Porthmeor available? Perhaps Penwith should erect notices reserving the use of the beaches for dogs and their owners, allowing the rest of us access only at certain times of day.
Island path needs attention
The footpath at the back of the Island needs urgent attention. After rain, several sections flood and become impassable because of rainwater or mud. So people climb onto the sides - quite risky on the seaward side -wearing them down and thus extending the area of mud. The other day I saw an elderly woman standing on the flooded path ankle deep in water and looking lost.
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
'Beautiful' town hailed in New York newspaper
TIMES are unquestionably hard and almost every day, the financial markets bring us further gloomy news.
So it's good to hear that our transatlantic cousins rate the far west of Cornwall and St Ives in particular as the 'UK's last great bargain'.
Writing in the New York Post, Alex Robertson Textor says American visitors to London 'have collected many a horror story'.
"It is perversely therapeutic to catalogue the outrageous prices for things: $50 for breakfast, $250 for a grubby shoebox of a hotel room and $8 for a single ride on the Tube," he writes.
But Cornwall is a 'must-visit' which remains relatively affordable for Americans and St Ives is in 'the first tier of beautiful Cornish seaside towns, an art colony turned beach town whose narrow streets throng with tourists'... more>
So it's good to hear that our transatlantic cousins rate the far west of Cornwall and St Ives in particular as the 'UK's last great bargain'.
Writing in the New York Post, Alex Robertson Textor says American visitors to London 'have collected many a horror story'.
"It is perversely therapeutic to catalogue the outrageous prices for things: $50 for breakfast, $250 for a grubby shoebox of a hotel room and $8 for a single ride on the Tube," he writes.
But Cornwall is a 'must-visit' which remains relatively affordable for Americans and St Ives is in 'the first tier of beautiful Cornish seaside towns, an art colony turned beach town whose narrow streets throng with tourists'... more>
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
The Big Question: Is there really a Cornish culture, and does it deserve promotion?
Why are we asking this now?
Because Cornwall, the home of surfing, pasties and Rick Stein, has been awarded £350,000 of European Union money to help finance its bid to put itself on the cultural map. Britain's most southerly county has campaigned for almost five years for a Europe-wide scheme to celebrate culture in the continent's often neglected rural areas.
"Rural regions account for about 80 per cent of Europe's landmass and 25 per cent of its population," says Miranda Bird, director of European Regions of Culture Campaign Organisation (EROCCO), which hopes Cornwall will become one of the first Regions of Culture, "yet when you talk to people outside Cornwall, they only think of beaches, pasties and ice cream."
What is the case for regarding Cornwall as a region of culture? ...more>
Because Cornwall, the home of surfing, pasties and Rick Stein, has been awarded £350,000 of European Union money to help finance its bid to put itself on the cultural map. Britain's most southerly county has campaigned for almost five years for a Europe-wide scheme to celebrate culture in the continent's often neglected rural areas.
"Rural regions account for about 80 per cent of Europe's landmass and 25 per cent of its population," says Miranda Bird, director of European Regions of Culture Campaign Organisation (EROCCO), which hopes Cornwall will become one of the first Regions of Culture, "yet when you talk to people outside Cornwall, they only think of beaches, pasties and ice cream."
What is the case for regarding Cornwall as a region of culture? ...more>
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