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WELCOME NEWS FOR SEARCH & RESCUE IN WEST CORNWALL AND ISLES OF SCILLY
Local MP Andrew George has welcomed the announcement about the future contract for Search & Rescue survivors from RNAS Culdrose. »
MPs CALL FOR END TO SECOND HOME TAX BREAKS
Local Liberal Democrat MPs Dan Rogerson and Julia Goldsworthy have met with Local Government Minister Barbara Follett to raise concerns about the impact of the growth of second homes in Cornwall. »
£60 million for new Cornish eco-towns
Housing Minister John Healey has today backed the country’s biggest ever green home building programme, with four areas, including St Austell, sharing £60m cash to build over 600 new homes to the toughest ever environmental standards. »
Full list of St Piran Day events
Here is a comprehensive list of St Piran Day events. »
Cornwall set to have incinerator after all?
Steve Gilbert, the prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has condemned Cornwall Council for once again failing to grasp the nettle and cancel the contract for the incinerator planned for St Dennis. »
Radio Cornwall programme on Cornish insults
At about 08.30 (if not a bit before) on Tuesday 26th January, 2010, Mike Chappell is going to be interviewed live on BBC Radio Cornwall by James Churchfield. »
St Piran in Penwith celebrations
On Thursday 4th March, 2010, 100 schoolchildren together with St. Buryan Male Voice Choir will put on a concert in honour of St. Piran at 7.00pm in St John’s Hall, PZ. »
Tories to create ‘Devonwall’?
Cornish parliamentary candidate Loic Rich has criticised the Conservative Party after a senior Conservative suggested there might be a Devon and Cornwall Economic Partnership after the General Election. »
‘Unholy Alliance’ keeps Cornish out of census
Labour and Conservative MPs united to keep ‘Cornish’ off the 2011 census last night, as the Government voted down a proposal from North Cornwall’s MP, Dan Rogerson, to have it included. »
Top Tory election chief emabarrassed by his own defeat
A huge election swing from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats in Cornwall Council’s first by-election is a significant indicator of growing disillusion with Conservatives at Cornwall Council, and a humiliation for the Conservatives’ top Cornwall election organiser (who put himself up as the candidate), says local MP Matthew Taylor. »
Latest Photos of Cornwall
- Blisland Parish Church
Built on the site of a Saxon church the Norman church at Blisland was one of John Betjeman's favourites. Dedicated to St Protus and St Hyacinth - 3rd c… - Saints Hyacinth and Protus Church - Blisland
Saints Hyacinth and Protus' Church in the village of Blisland on the western fringes of Bodmin Moor. You can see the chapel, with its separate door to … - Blisland Church
Dedicated to Saints Hyacinth and Protus, the parish church in Blisland dates back to Norman times with some mediaeval features....…