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Lockdown 2 may be upon us but that’s no reason not to support local shops and businesses. That’s the message from Camborne as the country once again battens down the hatches to fight the Covid virus. Forced to put up their closed signs, local business owners are...

A man well-known for always going the extra mile and helping his local community in whatever way he can has been presented with a Civic Award by Councillor Hilary Frank, Chair of Cornwall Council. Stephen Chidgey lives in Tregonetha, where he owns and runs a multi...

Cornwall’s largest independent care provider is developing its provision and expanding into new areas, places and specialisms. Cornwall Care currently employs 1500 staff and looks after more than 1000 elderly and vulnerable people in their own homes and in its sixteen...

Newly re-opened and ready for business, Cornwall’s leisure centres are offering a range of activities this half term. Family swimming will be available at all pools with the exception of Launceston, which is undergoing essential maintenance, whilst fun pools at Ships...

Swimmers and gym users have turned out for the opening of five leisure centres and three swimming pools in Cornwall this week that had previously been closed since lockdown in March. To mark the moment, Cornwall Council’s Deputy Leader Adam Paynter, Councillors Mike...

Sally Crabtree, better known as the Poetry Postie, has visited Camborne to deliver postcards as part of the town’s COVID-19 ‘One in a Million’ campaign. Not only that, she’s composed a song to celebrate all that Camborne has to offer and performs it, together with...

British Lithium Ltd (BLL) has appointed John Walker as Strategic Advisor, effective immediately. Cornishman John Walker started his career at Imerys in St Austell in 1990. He went on to become general manager of the company’s tableware division in Belgium, before...

Camborne has been awarded £750k of funding from the Government to kick start developing plans for improving the town. The money will be spent on improving local businesses and securing a central site to build a vibrant, multi-purpose community hive. Camborne Town Deal...

International bestselling author and Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams paid a visit to Cornwall’s Fowey Hall Hotel at the weekend to officially open its impressive library. Thought to be the largest children’s library in any hotel in the UK, it is home to more...

Following a visit to St Austell Leisure Centre, local MP Steve Double says he is confident that ‘everything necessary is in place to keep people safe’ and that ‘the old adage of use it or lose it definitely applies’. St Austell was one of eight centres and three pools...

A Redruth-based company that specialises in medical rehabilitation and sports performance products has spent the last few months of lockdown making scrubs for health workers and adding to its new ‘Essentials’ range. Staff at DM Orthotics research, develop and...

Cindi Webb has been keeping fit at Newquay’s Waterworld leisure centre since it first opened in 1975 and she’s delighted to be back. As someone who swims in the 25m pool and uses the gym several times a week, Cindi admits to being initially apprehensive about...

Residents and staff at Cornwall Care’s Headlands home in Carbis Bay celebrated in style when Dot Lord, 101, and Jessie Rheel, 92, officially opened a new summer house in the garden. Donated by a relative who doesn’t want to be named, the summer house has been fitted...

Roche-based British Lithium Limited (BLL) has been awarded £500,000 of match grant funding from the government to progress its research and development of hard rock lithium extraction in the St Austell area of Cornwall. With an application success rate of around 6 per...

Ten-year-old Skye Stephens, from Redruth, spent lockdown making gift boxes for residents and staff at her great grandfather’s care home in Camborne. She called them ‘Skye’s Happy Packages’. When her ‘Little Papa’ sadly passed away in July, she decided she would like...

Cornwall’s largest town is leading the way in keeping COVID-19 at bay and achieving the double zero statistic of no new cases and no new deaths. Camborne has always prided itself on being a close-knit community that looks out for each other. With most shops and...

What do you like about Camborne, what improvements would you like to see and what would encourage you to visit the town centre more often?  Those are some of the questions in a survey that is being widely distributed as part of work currently underway to bid for...