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An experienced strategic healthcare leader has taken on the role of chairperson for the Charity, Cornwall Care Limited (CCL) Board. Sally Taylor was chief executive of St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth for nearly 22 years and is the current vice...

GLL, which operates under the Better brand and runs Cornwall’s leisure centres on behalf of the council, has had to close its leisure centres but is working in partnership with Public Health England to offer free home exercise videos and 600...

Camborne’s town council and business improvement team have officially declared their willingness to work together on improving the fortunes of the community and commerce of their town. The landmark memorandum of understanding was signed last summer ‘with pride and...

Residents at a Cornish care home have enjoyed some extra festive cheer thanks to construction and infrastructure specialists Kier Group. Staff from Kier joined forces with Cornwall Care staff to sing socially distanced carols outside Cedar Grange care home in...

A brother and sister duo from Newquay have received a special recognition award from Cornwall Care for their fundraising efforts. Ten-year-old Mason and his eight-year-old sister Phoebe walked 154 miles during the early part of the first lockdown to help raise money...

St Ives Leisure Centre will be collecting donations for St Ives Food Bank between Saturday 19th December and 1st January. The focus will be on the collection of tins and packaged foods, particularly tinned fruit and sugar. Items can be dropped off safely at...

Around 5000 people joined the mass virtual lights switch on in Camborne on Thursday 3rd December. Live streamed on Facebook, both residents and businesses alike were able to join the town’s countdown; turning on their own decorations at the same time as the...

An award-winning young Cornish fundraiser who has virtually travelled the length of the UK on her family’s cross trainer has set her sights on raising £20,000 for Cornwall Care’s Blackwood House in Camborne by Christmas. Ten-year-old Mia...

Cornwall Care has had two stories included in the National Care Forum’s Caring in Covid book project. Read by former BBC Spotlight presenter Justin Leigh, one of the two has also been selected to launch the NCF’s 2020 advent calendar. Each story focuses on a different...

It’s going to be an extraordinary Christmas. That’s the message from the BID Camborne and Camborne Town Council teams as they busy themselves with festive preparations unlike any others that have gone before. Traditional features like the thirty-foot real Nordman Fir...

A senior geologist, a metallurgist and a principal engineer have started work with the British Lithium Limited (BLL) team in Cornwall. Dr Robert Gruar, Dr Klass Peter Van Der Wielen and Robin Kelly are all experts in their respective fields – adding considerable depth...

An activity coordinator at Cornwall Care’s Woodland House home in St Austell has come up with an idea for making Christmas extra special for residents this year. Leanne Masters took up her activity coordinator role in February, just weeks before the first lockdown....

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...