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To mark Dementia Awareness Week next month, Chyvarhas Care Home in Callington will be holding its first dementia coffee morning on Friday 19 May from 10am to 12 noon. Dementia is the general term for ongoing loss of thinking and memory abilities and can be physically...

Spring has sprung in Camborne with a loyalty card bonanza that began on St Piran’s Day and runs to Trevithick Day on 29 April. BID Camborne first launched the loyalty card scheme in April last year. Shoppers earn one stamp on the card each day when they shop at a BID...

BID Camborne is giving people the chance to win local shopping vouchers and have their favourite photos of Camborne included in future publications.  Entitled ‘Camborne at its Best’, the campaign has just been launched and runs until April. Photos need to have...

St Austell Leisure Centre has been awarded funding from the Sport England Together Fund to help people with low level health conditions get fitter. Working with the St Austell Health Hub social prescribing team, Active Cornwall and other key partners, the centre is...

St Austell Leisure Centre is holding a free swim school open day on Saturday 25 February. As well as a session for toddlers, there will a foundation taster, a swim school assessment, artistic swimming for beginners, a water polo taster and fun distance challenges for...

Natalie Dunstan and Josh Collett have joined Lang Bennetts’ growing accountancy team. Natalie has been appointed as Practice Manager – a new role that oversees Lang Bennett’s three offices in Falmouth, Truro and St Austell. Describing herself as a “Falmouth girl born...

Intensive swimming lessons, family fun swimming, junior gym, tennis, soft play and trampolining – just some of the wide range of activities available at Better leisure centres throughout Cornwall this half term. With home heating costs high, the February school...

In an area with as much coastline as Cornwall, sea safety is paramount. Lifeguards patrol many Cornish beaches during the summer months and large numbers of lives have been saved as a result. Newquay Surf Lifesaving Club has more than 300 members ranging from 5 years...

546 children throughout Cornwall enjoyed school holiday fun and food at Better leisure centres over the last 12 months thanks to the Time2Move programme. Swimming and multi-sports are included in the sessions which last for a minimum of four hours each day and include...

The UK’s largest independent athlete support programme is open for applications in Cornwall. 2023 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) – an innovative national scheme that has so far contributed more than £13m to helping around 24,000...

British Lithium has begun the New Year with an “extremely encouraging” set of results that bode well for the future. Focused on sustainable, chemical-free, processing and an entirely novel approach to the commercial production of battery grade lithium carbonate from...

Affordable rents, business accessibility and a strong sense of community all combined to make 2022 a positive year for Camborne. That’s according to BID Manager Anna Pascoe who said several new businesses opened last year. Visitor footfall was good over the festive...

73-year-old Sally Hunt, from Liskeard, was rushed to hospital last August with a strangulated bowel. A chronically bad back had made mobility challenging for many years and, as a diabetic weighing nearly 24 stone, her heart and kidneys were failing. Fast forward five...

A brand new and well-equipped functional fitness area at Newquay Leisure World is already getting rave reviews from customers. “I also absolutely love the new outdoor space!” wrote one customer in an email to GLL General Manager Adam Riddle. “I don't think there is...