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Police investigate sexual assault

Police investigate sexual assault

​British Transport Police at Truro are investigating an allegation of a sexual assault against a 17-year-old girl.

The incident took place on the 2:20pm Falmouth Docks to Truro train on New year’s Day, but these images have only just been released. Both the victim and suspect boarded the carriage at Penmere station.
The...

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Police appeal: Missing man

Alexander Wileman from Oxford who is missing and believed to be in Cornwall

POLICE have asked the public to be on the look out for a missing man. Alexander Wileman, 33, from Oxford, has gone missing before and...


Gurkha a delightful addition

Kitchen staff, from left to right, Dipak Sedhai, Dorje Lama, Govinda Prasad Dallakoti and Anil Sedhai. Ref: 1001mr32gurkha01

EATING out in St Austell is fast offering the chance to have a culinary world tour and the number of countries which can be ticked off...

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Film project will tell story of epic Australia voyage

The Misty Mountain Line Dancers

THE dramatic story of a fishing lugger's voyage from Cornwall to Australia in the 19th century is to be made into a film. Production is...

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Lunch time music raises cash for ShelterBox in Haiti

The concert in full swing during the lunch time concert. Mullion School Wind Band performed to  parents, grandparents and great grandparents.

MULLION Methodist church has helped raise enough money for three ShelterBoxes. The group, touched by the scenes of devastation in...

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Bus link for villagers

Villagers celebrate the launch of the new North Carrick community bus.

A COMMUNITY bus has been launched to help people in the Perranporth and St Agnes areas to access services. It is hoped the bus, which...

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'Let's be having you' for life relay

The women on the Relay for Life bus make themselves seen and heard in the Trengrouse Way car park.  1001KR02702

THERE has been a lot of interest around Helston and The Lizard in the Relay for Life, due to be staged in the area later this year. But...

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Sunday Cup finalists decided

St Blazey AFC

Tremough and St Blazey will meet in the final of the Cornwall Sunday Cup on March 21 (10.30am) after winning their respective semi-finals today.

Tremough beat West Cornwall 2-1 at Helston while St Blazey won a penalty shoot out against St Teath 3-0, after the tie had finished 2-2 at the end of extra time.

The venue for the final...

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Forward banned for six weeks for butt

Bude RFC

Bude forward David Risdon has been banned for six weeks for butting Camborne's scrum-half Dean Pascoe in their Western Counties West...

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County Youth bow out of cup

Liverpool FA 3 Cornwall Youth 0 Cornwall's fine run in the FA County Youth Cup came to an end in Liverpool on Saturday. The hosts started the fourth round tie well and were 2-0 in the first...

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10-man Magpies earn stunning victory

St Blazey AFC

St Blazey 0, Penzance 3 The 10-man Magpies completed a hat-trick of victories over the Green and Blacks this season with a thoroughly...

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City's wait goes on despite dream start

Truro City 2 Leamington 2 City's long wait for a home Zamaretto Southern League premier division win goes on after they twice surrendered the lead at Treyew Road on Saturday. It is now more...

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It's a lover's Paradise

A pair of Caribbean Flamingos and a family enjoying the penguin photocall.  Picture: Michelle Turton

THREE pairs of Caribbean flamingos are pretty in pink ready for Valentine's Day and half-term.

Curator David Woolcock said: "They recently spent some time indoors at night to prevent any frostbitten toes during the snowy and icy weather but all were fine.

"You can't help but be amazed by their stunning pink colour....

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Carnivores and kites

Carnivores and kites

THIS half-term Newquay Zoo will be sinking its teeth into some great family activities as it supports the European Association for Zoo...

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The hit about your bits

Anne Charleston

ADD to the two million men and women who have already witnessed one of the 3,000 performances and 25,000 fake orgasms when The Vagina...

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Zun like it hot

Zun like it hot

THEY are The Mars Volta wrestling with The Boredoms and they've just made this weekend a whole lot more interesting. Hell, we could've...

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Bands who prove metal never rusts

Bands who prove metal never rusts

METAL has always been big in Cornwall, with fans and bands sticking a leather-clad finger up at fashionistas who deem the genre uncool....

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