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Cornwall-based police community support officer 'used database to start affairs'
A married police community support officer "used the criminal intelligence system as a dating agency" to strike up affairs with single mothers and victims of domestic abuse while on duty, a court was...
View ArticleRoyal Cornwall Hospital Trust 'recipe for another Mid Staffs'
A Cornwall MP has warned the area's troubled hospital trust is a "recipe" for a repeat of the Stafford NHS scandal, writes London Editor Graeme Demianyk.Andrew George, Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives,...
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Bodmin seek fourth Senior Cup final place
Bodmin Town will be bidding to reach their fourth successive Cornwall Senior Cup final when they take on Penryn Athletic at Wadebridge Town's Bodieve Park tonight.Bodmin manager Darren Gilbert has...
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Cornwall Council warns cut in schools cash poses threat to pupil places
Cornwall Council has warned of children missing out on school places after ministers slashed building cash that would have relieved pressure on over-crowded classrooms.Cornwall's frustration has been...
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Plans for Royal Marines 'super-base' in the South West postponed
The Government has rowed back on plans to move Royal Marines based in Scotland to the Westcountry to unite all three commando units in the region.But well-placed sources have told the Western Morning...
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Detained ships are smuggled from Cornish port
Two tugs detained in the Westcountry and condemned as unseaworthy have been smuggled out of port in the dead of night.An investigation has been launched after the sudden disappearance of the two...
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Plans unveiled for £3.7m superfast broadband connection to the Scillies
The Superfast Cornwall scheme has announced £3.7 million plans to bring faster broadband to the Isles of Scilly by moving an underwater cable to connect the archipelago.Fibre optic cables, which have...
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Armed police swoop in Newquay after handgun discovered at scene of assault
ARMED police swooped on a Newquay street yesterday evening after a handgun was found at the scene of a vicious assault.Three men attacked a 30-year-old man with a metal bar, leaving him covered in cuts...
View ArticleBench fire in Callington is suspected arson
Fire fighters were called to a suspected arson attack in Callington last night.At around 7.30pm fire fighters extinguished plastic benches on Saltash Road using a jet hose.Police are investigating the...
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BLOG: Empty calories
Afternoon everyone, I hope you have been keeping well through the past couple of weeks. I have been very busy putting together plans for a potential new gym in the Redruth/Camborne area, please follow...
View ArticleLifting of dog ban at Truro cemetery met with mixed reactions
NEWS that dogs are to be allowed back into Truro cemetery has been met with mixed feelings by visitors.Following a change in the rules set by the city council earlier this month, the No Dog signs will...
View ArticleHistoric boat crafted by volunteers at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall...
The question on every ones lips this morning over the launch of a replica 4,0000 year old boat at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall was will it float? Luckily for everyone the answer was a...
View ArticleSerco's systems under attack from the outset
The name of Serco has never been far from the headlines since it won the contract to provide the out-of-hours GP service in Cornwall in December 2005.Billed on its website as "an international service...
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Cornwall brings back its plans to privatise council services
Cornwall Council chiefs have revived a controversial venture to privatise services – a project which cost former Tory leader Alec Robertson his job last year and plunged the authority into political...
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Camborne and Redruth PCSO Peter Bunyan denies sex-on-duty claims
POLICE community support officer Peter Bunyan got phone numbers for vulnerable women off the force's database and then embarked on sexual relationships with them, a court has heard.Bunyan, 40, who...
View ArticleBLOG by Kevin Marriott: My disabled brother is one of the happiest human...
"HE will never walk, he will never talk. And he'll probably end up a vegetable."Those were the first words delivered to my parents by a specialist after their second son – my brother – had been...
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Removals van and driver stuck overnight at the end of the road in tiny St...
A removals van came to the end of the road in a tiny Cornish waterside village.The driver is thought to have taken a wrong turning and ended up stuck overnight in St Clements near Truro.The road into...
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Whistleblowers role in raising concerns about out-of-hours GP service...
WHISTLEBLOWERS played an important role in highlighting problems with Cornwall's out of hours doctor service which led to action being taken.That is the finding of the National Audit Office (NAO) which...
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Appeal for information after boat stolen from Durgan, Mawnan Smith
Police are investigating the theft of a boat from Durgan at Mawnan Smith this week.The Narwhal HD520 Rib and the trailer it was on was taken sometime between 8am on Monday and 9.30am yesterday...
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Boycie from Only Fools and Horses coming to Truro
A legendary character from the UK's favourite comedy is coming to Cornwall.John Challis - who played Boycie in Only Fools and Horses - will be at Waterstones in Truro this Saturday.Rather than propping...
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