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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...

Poppies have become the symbol of remembrance so Amanda Littlejohns was delighted when her mum said she would crochet some for St Breock’s care home in Wadebridge, where she works. That was in 2020 when the pandemic was first rampaging. Twelve months later and what...

Margaret Lovell, Jayne Torrano and eleven-year-old Mia Richardson are category winners in the South West finals of the Great British Care Awards. Margaret Lovell won the Dementia Carer Award, Jayne Torrano scooped the Care Planner Award and Mia Richardson, who has...

Three Cornwall Council Cabinet members have been shown the UK’s first home-produced lithium carbonate. Councillors Carol Mould, Richard Pears and Stephen Rushworth handled a jar containing the compound after touring British Lithium’s new lithium pilot plant near Roche...

Thirty-five competitors took to Camborne’s main street in the town’s first ever Tykes on Trikes event. Organised by BID Camborne and sponsored by Tesco and the Tyacks Hotel, there were three races. The first was for children up to the age of five, the second for those...

With Christmas fast approaching, Cornwall Care is expanding its Santa to a Senior campaign to eleven of its homes. St Austell’s Woodland House activity coordinator Leanne Masters came up with the idea of the local community being able to donate gifts to individual...

Leisure centres throughout Cornwall will be ensuring some half term fun with a range of activities that include swimming, soft play, tennis and trampolining. After so many months of disruption caused by the pandemic, staff at the 12 Better centres run by GLL are...