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With gyms and indoor swimming pools opening from today, Monday 12 April, GLL has a wide variety of recruitment vacancies throughout its leisure centre network in Cornwall. Posts on offer include general managers, recreation assistants, fitness class instructors, swim...

A businessman whose long and distinguished career on the world stage has included regular meetings with national and international heads of state, has joined British Lithium as a non-executive director. Having established Newquay-based and family-run Legacy Properties...

A Project A-Void grant of £5000 has helped a local holiday let company attract G7 summit business to Camborne. SRU Ltd runs four properties in the town that offer en-suite accommodation to visitors. Now, thanks to recent renovations by Camborne based building firm...

Schools throughout Cornwall are being offered the opportunity of Covid secure swimming lessons in local leisure centres from Monday 19 April. GLL, which operates under the Better brand, is the not-for-profit social enterprise that runs the centres on behalf of...

Cornwall Care will be marking the National Day of Reflection on Tuesday 23 March with events and activities involving staff and residents. The charity, which employs around 1500 people, runs sixteen homes and a community outreach service. Adult social care has been...

St Austell-based Research by British Lithium Limited has been awarded over £2.9 by the Government’s Sustainable Innovation Fund (SIF). The funding will allow British Lithium to progress its plans for a pilot plant to prove the sustainability and commercial benefits of...

A new product range launched by specialist company DM Orthotics (DMO) is designed to help children and adults with sensory difficulties. Made from elastomeric fabric and worn next to the skin with seams on the outside to reduce tactile sensitivity, the DMO Sensory...

Following the Government’s announcement about its lockdown exit roadmap, Cornish leisure centres are preparing to re-open – but without any certainty on dates. Outdoor sports, including tennis and outdoor fitness classes, might resume from 29 March if official...

To mark St Piran’s Day, Camborne’s re-worked version of Trelawny is being translated into Cornish. Written last summer by BID Camborne manager Anna Pascoe and sung online by the Ingleheart Singers, the new wording of Cornwall’s famous anthem highlights the need to...

When keen knitter Sheila Humphreys, from St Cleer, heard about twiddle muffs, she knew she had to help out and make some. Designed specifically for people with dementia, twiddle muffs keep restless hands busy, whilst also keeping them snug and warm. “I was chatting...

St Austell-based British Lithium Limited (BLL) has embarked on its fourth and largest round of drilling to define the extent of the lithium carbonate resource already identified in previous exploration work last year. Seventeen large diameter...

Lockdown is probably driving us all a little crazy, so what better way to escape than going up, up and away with Cornwall Care.  In keeping with their 25th anniversary fundraising theme of Reach for the Moon, the charity is running a virtual balloon race...

Two Cornish companies are being described as ‘amazing’ after volunteering free or heavily subsidised accommodation to Cornwall Care staff working in homes recently affected by Covid outbreaks. Coast2Coast Motorhome Hire in Truro and Tregathenan House and Cottages in...

Residents at a care home in Wadebridge have been taking part in a nationwide online singing get together and the weekly experience is proving a big hit. Run by charity Cornwall Care, St Breock specialises in looking after older people with physical needs and different...

To mark its 25th anniversary year, Cornwall Care is challenging people of all ages to take part in a major fundraising campaign and ‘Reach for the Moon’. There are 384,400 kilometres separating earth from its nearest neighbouring planet. The charity is asking...

A 13-tonne bulk sample of hard rock being analysed by British Lithium’s team at their Cornwall-based metallurgical laboratory is showing better than expected results.   The company aims to extract lithium carbonate from the mica in granite and analysis of the sample...

Cornwall Care has appointed Derek Law MBE as a trustee – a man nationally honoured for the difference he has made in improving life for older people. Derek, who lives in St Agnes, has spent 40 years working in the adult social care sector. Senior roles have included...

A Cornwall-based phone, internet and TV provider has been praised by top music and hospitality guru Mark Fuller for ‘always being there’ during the pandemic. Mark, who once toured with the likes of Thin Lizzy and The Damned, counts many high- profile musicians amongst...