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The pandemic has created many challenges, especially for those working in adult social care.  With strict restrictions in place and Covid outbreaks a regular occurrence in care homes, carers have carried on caring – often doing long hours to cover staff absences...

Camborne air cadets have completed the Town Trail Time Trial and loved it so much they want to do it again. Since some of those taking part had injuries, there were both running and walking groups – with the runners competing against each other and the time trial...

Camborne shoppers are being given the chance to get 10 out of 10 and win up to £100 in shopping vouchers each month. That’s all thanks to a loyalty card that is being launched this week by the town’s BID (Business Improvement District) team as part of its...

Efforts are underway to reopen the café in Saltash Leisure Centre within the next few months and potential operators are being invited to submit their expressions of interest by Monday 28 February. The café was closed during restrictions imposed by the pandemic but...

Fay Dutfield-Horton, 47, from St Erth, credits GLL’s sports foundation (GSF) with giving her the practical help and encouragement she needed to succeed at wheelchair tennis. The former Cardiff women’s rugby team player and keen, all-round sports’ enthusiast thought...

People are being encouraged back to Camborne town with a range of “Pop Up to Help Out” activities like face painting, storytelling, dance performances, photography and even some magic maths. They are also being invited to explore Camborne’s impressive heritage by...

Families are being encouraged to get active this half term by making the most of their local leisure centre. With swimming, junior gym, trampolining, tennis and soft play amongst the many activities on offer, there is plenty to keep children and adults well...

Stephen Chidgey’s mantra that good customer service is more important than anything has again earned him a finalist’s place in the self-catering category of the 2021/2022 Cornwall Tourism Awards. Stephen runs the Old Barn at Tregonetha with his partner Allen Puckey....

The Camborne Town Deal board has voted in favour of working with a recently formed community interest company (CIC) that aims to drive positive change and help local people. Called ‘It’s Possible Camborne’, the non-profit CIC was set up by an experienced team of...

Virtual reality headsets, iPads and a large projector screen doubling as a room with a view – residents at three Cornwall Care homes are enjoying the world-famous Eden Project without having to visit. Both organisations have joined forces to create virtual scans of...

In what is believed to be a world first, British Lithium has produced lithium at pilot scale from the mica in granite in its new pilot plant near Roche. Funded by Innovate UK, the pilot plant has taken just seven months to design and build and uses patented technology...

GLL – the UK’s largest leisure charitable social enterprise - has once again shown its commitment to improving health, wellbeing and opportunity in the communities it works in, by supporting the next generation of athletes to the tune of £1.2 million, via The GLL...

Keen dancer Chloe Sharland, from Exeter, was eleven years old when her mum took her to the doctor because she didn’t think her daughter’s spine looked quite right.  The GP somewhat bluntly agreed it was twisted and referred Chloe to a consultant who diagnosed...

Sharron Lipscombe-Manley is well known in Camborne as the owner of Delight 2 Bite delicatessen and as the chair of BID Camborne which has just been voted in for a third term. Less well known, perhaps, is that she and her group of loyal helpers are regular fundraisers....

A former Covid testing station has been turned into what is being called ‘Paradise Spa’ at Cornwall Care’s St Breock residential home in Wadebridge. With personal wellbeing a priority after almost two years of pandemic restrictions, staff and residents joined forces...

Camborne businesses have voted ‘yes’ to a third five-year term as a Business Improvement District (BID) with a strong mandate from their business community. At 77% of votes cast, the ‘yes’ result was 20% higher than in the second term, demonstrating the big difference...

Three women with a shared passion for using creativity and art to get people together in a productive, meaningful way are the driving force behind Camborne Contemporary Crafts Hub – one of Camborne Town Deal’s eight projects to regenerate the town. Architectural...

Twelve-year-old Mia Richardson’s impressive achievements include raising nearly £30,000 for Cornwall Care’s Blackwood House in Camborne by cycling the distance between Land’s End and John O’Groats on her family’s cross-trainer and scooping the Unpaid Carer’s Award at...