A Penzance-based artist thought she was getting a cold call when she was asked to submit sketches for Royal Mail’s 2024 Christmas stamps. The country’s postal service stamps feature some of the UK’s most spectacular cathedrals, including Edinburgh, Liverpool, Armagh, Bangor and Westminster. The stamps were illustrated by Penzance-based illustrator, …
Read More »Life size statue of Cornwall comedian Jethro now complete, but where should it go?
A life size statue of Cornwall comedian Jethro has now been completed, but now the big question is where it should go. Since the death of the much loved comedian in 2021, supporters have successfully raised £17,000 to commission Wadebridge sculptor Richard Austin to create a bronze likeness. In June, …
Read More »Jailed at Truro Crown Court in April: Rapist, paedophile and drugs gang taken off Cornwall streets
The months are flying by and hopefully better weather and warmer temperatures are just around the corner. But regardless of the weather outside the wheels of justice continue to turn at Truro Crown Court. Throughout April a number of criminals were jailed at the court, for crimes spanning the criminal …
Read More »Final member of Cornwall drug empire jailed as police speak of huge operation
The final member of “a planned, sophisticated, sustained and determined” drugs conspiracy has been put behind bars. CornwallLive has previously reported how three men were jailed for the empire that saw Cornwall flooded with heroin and cocaine and more than half a million pounds in cash sent back to Liverpool …
Read More »Are you in favour of the ongoing strike actions? Have your say
If you thought the strike actions by nurses, ambulance staff, rail and bus workers were behind us, then think again. After a month of December which saw an unprecedented number of industrial actions many public sector workers from paramedics to nurses – the first such industrial action in decades – …
Read More »Meet the volunteers keeping Penzance’s poorest families fed
Every evening without fail volunteers from the Street Food Project hand out hot meals they have prepared themselves to those most in need. No questions are asked of the ‘guests’ or ‘customers’. It is just a necessity and their needs are great. Why ask more questions when there is already …
Read More »Olympian Helen Glover names twins and one has a Cornish twist
Cornwall’s Olympic gold medallist has finally announced the names of her newborn children and one of them has a distinctly Cornish twist. Last week Cornwall Live reported that Helen Glover still hadn’t named her children despite the 33-year-old announcing the safe arrival of the twins on Twitter last month with …
Read More »Royal Mail van ends up in ditch on opposite side of the road at Penzance
A Royal Mail van ended up in a ditch on the opposite side of the A30 in Cornwall. The accident was spotted near Penzance. The van had been heading west when it appeared to have veered across to the other side of the road and gone off the carriageway. It …
Read More »‘I was first person to complete the EU Brexit Settled Status in Cornwall’
With Brexit likely hard and painful now looming large on the horizon, and what appears to be a mess of galactic proportions taking place in Westminster, now seems the most opportune time for the 18,000 EU citizens living in Cornwall to apply for the EU Settled Status. Considering the mess …
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