Cornwall and Isles of Scilly County, England News

FIVE people have been rushed to hospital following a car crash in Cornwall. An elderly man has been flown to casualty by Cornwall Air Ambulance after suffering from severe shock and a suspected broken ankle in the smash in South East Cornwall.

COUNCIL leaders have been accused of an "institutional failure" in Newquay, leaving town residents to pick up the pieces.

STORMS tore their way across the Westcountry overnight with winds of up to 80mph damaging trees and causing flooding in some areas.

A new jail could be built in Cornwall - 85 years after the the last one closed. Those behind the proposal say a prison is needed in the county because sending locals to jails outside of Cornwall can strain inmates' family relationships.

HEALTH campaigners in Cornwall are bracing themselves for yet another battle over the future of the county's cancer services, writes the WMN's Patra Mann.

A new National Park in the South Downs has been officially confirmed more than 60 years after the area was first earmarked for protected status.

A SECOND World War hero has been banned from selling Remembrance Day poppies after raising 140,000 over 50 years - because he is too old and needs insurance.

Three teenagers have been charged with manslaughter over the house fire death of a mother-of-nine after a firework was pushed through her letterbox.

THE partner of a man who was plucked to safety from the foot of a 240ft cliff in a daring rescue has praised emergency crews for saving his life.

THE Highways Agency could face a landmark legal action for failing to protect Westcountry motorists who were caught in treacherous weather earlier this year, writes WMN chief reporter Andy Greenwood.

DETECTIVES were last night granted further time to question three teenagers arrested on suspicion of the Bonfire Night murder of a 59-year-old woman from North Cornwall, writes WMN chief reporter Andy Greenwood.

A TORTOISE thief has been given a suspended prison sentence after a burglary at a sanctuary near St Austell in the summer.

HE'S behind you! Panto season is nearly upon us and Cornwall's own Miracle Theatre Company is getting ready to tour its panto with a difference, The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin, to venues across Cornwall and the South West, from Friday.

NEARLY 400 litres of milk spilled on to a main road near Holsworthy after a lorry overturned at Clawton this morning.

THREE teenagers were last night being quizzed by police in connection with the murder of a 59-year-old woman on Bonfire Night, writes WMN chief reporter Andy Greenwood.

Police have increased the number of patrols in rural north Cornwall in an attempt to reassure residents shocked and frightened by three murders in the area in less than a week.

THE recession has wiped 50 million from the value of the taxpayers' stake in some of the biggest regeneration projects in the Westcountry, WMN London Editor Matt Chorley exclusively reveals.

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FIREFIGHTERS came to the rescue of a teenager who was trapped under a car in Bude last night.

POLICE hunting the yobs who started a fire that killed a mother of nine are trawling social networking websites for clues.