A four-year-old dog had a lucky escape last night after chasing a rabbit and falling 10ft down an open mine shaft at Scorrier, near Redruth.
Sonia and Joe Dunnett took their dogs Bell and Buster for a walk with a friend's dog Oscar yesterday afternoon...
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Firefighters prevented a pollution disaster after working around the clock for seven days to pump more than 60 million litres of contaminated water from a disused Cornish mine.Had the filthy water escaped it could have damaged the Carnon River and the...
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Two pumps brought in to help remove contaminated water from a disused mine in mid Cornwall are removed, the fire service says.
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AN INVESTIGATION is being demanded into claims a Cornwall Council officer encouraged a traveller to move onto council-owned land.St Agnes Parish Council is writing to chief executive Kevin Lavery over the allegation against Gypsy liaison officer, Phil ...
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A man and his dog had to be rescued from the beach at Wheal Charlotte yesterday afternoon by St Agnes RNLI Lifeboat.
The inshore lifeboat and her volunteer crew of Joe Daysh, Jamie Watkins and Richard Llewellyn launched following a report to the coas...
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It is hard to believe that John Peck, author of the award-winning Painting A Mine With Light, came to be highly regarded by miners for his excellent photographs of life underground, quite literally, by accident.John came to Cornwall with his young fam...
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A Westcountry hospital has been ordered to improve staffing levels after a health watchdog found a ward where only two nurses were looking after 25 patients.Wheal Agar ward at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske, was among a number of visited by a te...
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A Cornish hospital failed to ensure enough experienced staff were on duty at Wheal Agar ward, says the Care Quality Commission.
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Cornwall Air Ambulance was called to help an injured biker at land near Wheal Busy Mine near Chacewater on Saturday, July 14
The ambulance service was called at 10.47am to help the person who had fallen off their bike, sustaining leg and shoulder injuries.
They were taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske.
Storytelling and crafts were the order of the day as visitors to a Cornish heritage museum celebrated the Diamond Jubilee by throwing a party.Wheal Martyn, near St Austell, opened its doors to host a jubilee party with everything from storytelling and ...
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Cornish radio station Atlantic FM bowed out on Sunday to make way for its relaunch as Heart FM.
Nearly 30 people, including past and present members of staff and well-wishers gathered for a party at the station's Wheal Kitty Studios, on the cliff t...
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THE GRIEVING family of a pensioner have complained about his treatment and a lack of dignity in the days before he died.Albert Morris passed away aged 94 on Wheal Agar Ward, at Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro, in November and his family have raised conce...
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A Cornish hospital's lone ward has been closed to new admissions and visitors following an outbreak of an infectious illness.Medical 1 ward at West Cornwall Hospital was put under restrictions last week.It is currently the only in-patient ward open at ...
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A planning application for a wind turbine twice the height of Nelson’s Column has been submitted for the former tin mine at Wheal Jane.
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Police are hunting for a man seen trying the door handle of a Pool house that was burgled just hours later. The house in Wheal Agar was targeted between 2.30pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday.
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Nearly 50 acres of rugged western Atlantic coastline in Cornwall has sold at auction for £81,0000.The picturesque patch of land, complete with beach, scrub, heathland, hill, clifftop and historical tin mining works, is between St Agnes and New...
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