THIS week the Cornish Guardian launches a major new campaign to keep our town centres thriving and at the heart of the community.Go To Town aims to highlight the diverse range of shops and services on our doorstep, promoting them and their role in kee...
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Keeping it local to save town centres
Pensans pupils can now travel in style
PUPILS at a Penzance school can travel in style after taking delivery of a new minibus.Children, staff and parents at Pensans Community Primary School have been fundraising for the 17-seat minibus for the past 12 months.And their efforts, added to spon...
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Police drop in surgeries for school children
Barnstaple police are providing regular drop-in surgeries for local school children. They hope to engage with young people so they feel comfortable in being able to speak to their local officer about concerns they have.
Park Community School, ...
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College hails a ‘record year’ for GCSE results
STUDENTS and staff at Fowey Community College are celebrating a "record year" after school GCSE league tables were revealed.More than half of pupils, 52 per cent, at the school on Windmill, achieved five or more A* to C grades at GSCE, including maths ...
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Yo ho ho it’s a pirate learning site for these
SWASHBUCKLING and marauding were given a free rein at Padstow School as part of a pirate-themed day of mayhem to mark the launch of their new website.Students and staff got into the spirit, brandishing cutlasses and dressing up – while school ass...
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Burglary, Totnes
Police investigating a break-in to King Edward VI Community School in Totnes are appealing for information.
Sometime between 9.30pm on Friday 27th January and 7.15am on Monday 30th January a number of electrical items were stolen.
Three Toshiba lapto...
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Football tournament raises money for charity
EIGHT teams of amateur footballers from Callington and Launceston battled it out for charity on Sunday by raising £128 for CHICKS and the Alzheimer's Society.The one-day, seven-a-side tournament took place at Callington Community College wit...
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Community centre sale hits problems
Contracts have yet to be exchanged on Helston’s former community centre building almost three months after it sold at auction.
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Gardening tips from Eden Project
The Eden Project is offering urban gardening tips through a series of indoor weekly workshops at Truro Community Library.
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School counting cost after thieves steal lead roofing
LEAD has been ripped from the roof of a rural school after thieves struck for the second time in months.Leedstown Community Primary School is counting the cost of the latest theft, which left a gaping whole in the roof and caused damage to a classroom ...
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Instructor falsely claimed benefits
A windsurfing instructor at Stithians lake has been handed a 12 month community order after pleading guilty to falsely claiming £3,530 in benefits.
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‘Community asset lost’ as toilet block to be auctioned
COMMUNITY leaders say the people of Fowey have lost a community asset after council chiefs confirmed that an old toilet block will be sold at auction.The Rosehill toilets, owned by Cornwall Council, were withdrawn from auction last September after Fowe...
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Warnings about rural vulnerable
Housing and social services workers in Cornwall need to make sure vulnerable people in rural areas do not become isolated, a community group says.
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Community order for benefit cheat
A woman from Camborne has been handed a six month community order with an eight week curfew for her part in a benefit fraud totalling £1,871.82.
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Community group awarded £76,000
A north Cornwall community group has been awarded £76,000 government funding for a sustainable housing project.
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GPs lead 24-hour care bid at West Cornwall Hospital
WEST CORNWALL Hospital's casualty department will be turned into a 24-hour urgent care centre, with GPs and hospital doctors working together, under new plans unveiled this week.The centre would combine the current casualty service with an "acute GP" c...
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Electricity of ideas is flowing already as the festival gets ready to roll
LISKEARD got a preview of an upcoming spring festival as writers descended on the town for a weekend workshop.Word Play, run by Hall for Cornwall writer-in-residence Sally Crabtree, attracted people from as far as St Austell keen to get a taste of the ...
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Village mourns ‘Mr Mullion’
A parish councillor who dedicated his life to the community of Mullion has been remembered at a service to celebrate his life.
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Heading
LOOE Community School's new business manager received a special presentation from the headteacher after winning an award from his professional body.Heather Jenkins announced that Steve Green had been awarded the Chartered Management Institute's title o...
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Inmates recondition garden tools
Inmates at Dartmoor Prison in Devon clean and recycle old garden tools to give to schools and community groups in Cornwall.
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Yurt helps group to teach all about sustainability
A NEW yurt bought by an environmental education centre thanks to a £1,400 grant has been given the once-over by its donors.Camp Kernow was given the money by the Co-operative's Community Fund in June last year and the Co-operative's area committe...
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