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Anyone wanting to become a qualified National Pool Lifeguard is being given the opportunity to join a course being run at Newquay Leisure World from Tuesday 20th to Sunday 25th July inclusive. Successful candidates will be offered a fixed term contract for...

Three Better leisure centres in Cornwall will be offering holiday activity sessions for children from 26 July to 20 August. The Time2Move holiday programme is open to all young people and free for those aged 5 to 16 on free school meals.  Delivered in partnership...

British Lithium has applied for two more patents following extensive research and development. Coming less than two months after the company filed its first patent, the latest applications are part of an innovative hydro-metallurgical process that uses salt, rather...

Mountford House nursing home in Truro has had its Gold Standard Framework (GSF) accreditation for end-of-life care renewed and achieved GSF Platinum home status. Rigorous assessment takes place every three years and specialist training over 9 months, as well as...

The multi award-winning owner of a self-catering property in Tregonetha, near Padstow, has been praised for his ‘kindness and care’ in immediately returning a booking deposit to guests having to cancel a stay this autumn. Stephen Chidgey prides himself on always going...

Swimming lessons for school children in Cornwall will be focusing on enjoying water safely this week. Pupils from more than seventy schools county-wide are currently receiving intensive key stage 2 swimming training at Better leisure centres. 19 – 26 June marks...

In the week that saw £23.7m Town Deal funding announced for Camborne, local MP and Cabinet Minister George Eustice met BID manager Anna Pascoe, Camborne Town Deal Acting Chair Val Dalley and members of the public at the weekly Camborne market. The BID team had taken a...

Local MP Steve Double toured the pilot plant being built by British Lithium near St Austell. The pilot plant will be the first in the UK to make lithium carbonate directly from rocks mined in Cornwall.  As the Conservative Member of Parliament for St Austell and...

Julie McNaughton, 49, from Gwinear, is doing English and Maths GCSE this year. She’s a senior Cornwall Care home manager who has never liked exams but needs to pass them for her assistant practitioner course. “I lost my original certificates,” says Julie. “I think...

After three years of intensive research and development, Cornwall-based British Lithium has invented a low-energy, chemical-free process for physically separating the mica in granite that contains lithium.  Innovate UK funded part of the necessary research and...

St Austell-based singer Mand Bennett has been keeping herself busy during lockdown by entertaining audiences online and raising money for Cornwall Care’s Penberthy home in Newquay. The self-employed singer was doing gigs in pubs, clubs and other venues before the...

The G7 United Kingdom official website has gone live and is already attracting a global audience thanks to Affinity, the Cornwall-based company that developed it.  Working from offices in Truro and with a 16-year history in digital delivery,...

Katy Finnimore is, by her own admission, an awful artist. Originally with aspirations to work in the legal sector and now a fundraiser with Cornwall Care, she’s the last person you’d expect to be creating pictures. Yet that is exactly what Katy, from Pensilva, is...

When it comes to food, residents at Penberthy care home in Newquay enjoy the very best. Recent St George’s Day and royal birthday celebrations saw them tuck into a feast of patriotic goodies – thanks to the home’s dedicated culinary team. Led by chef Pete Stone who...

With re-opening set for the week commencing 17 May, Newquay Trampoline and Play Park is planning a recruitment evening from 5-8pm on Monday 10 May. The state-of-the-art attraction features a trampolining area with two dive towers and an assault course, together with...

A Bodmin woman who says she would be confined to bed without the help of a suit and socks manufactured by Redruth-based DM Orthotics, is keen for more people to understand the condition she lives with. Gill Nicholls, 40, was finally diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos...

A large number of schools in Cornwall are getting pupils back into the water at local leisure centres after an absence of more than twelve months. 59 schools have so far signed up for lessons run by GLL, a not-for-profit social enterprise that operates under the...

An appeal against Cornwall Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for a retail park at Polstrong on the outskirts of Camborne has been dismissed. The application was submitted by Quora, a Newark and Nottingham based company that specialises in commercial and...