Cornwall and Isles of Scilly County, England News

A plan to bring fibre broadband to the Isles of Scilly for the first time by pressing a disused subsea fibre optic cable into service is nearing completion.

Two crews from St Austell Community Fire Station were called just before 6.30am this morning to a report of a fire in a garage in Trelawney Road.

A Penryn man has been made the subject of a community order and a restraining order by magistrates after he admitted assaulting a teenage woman at his home.

Hayle Community College is one of six schools included in a Cornwall Council application for funding from the Government 's Priority Schools Building Programme.

Police are seeking a man who snatched a handbag from a 77-year-old woman in Camborne, leaving her injured in the street.

Buy this photo Members of Jubilee Brass Band. Back: Nigel Menbury. Middle: Linda Sadler, Ken Menbury and Matthew Toms.

English councils should join forces with ambulance and school bus services to restore public transport to cut-off areas, says a committee of MPs.

Research suggests homes across Britain typically added A 90 to their value every day during the first half of 2014 Homes across Britain typically added A 90 to their value every day during the first half of 2014 as the housing market gathered momentum, according to a property website.

The mystery surrounding the death of Alan Jeal, after his naked body was found on Perranporth Beach will be featured on BBC's Crimewatch programme in a national appeal for information five months on.

"These days the holy grail is an octopus": The most prized of the mini-figures to be washed off the 1997 container ship.

Keith Barratt, 69, was found hanging in a barn at Higher Horslett in Clawton where he lived on the morning of February 18. A statement from his GP said Mr Barratt had suffered from anxiety for some years and was worried about his future and lack of pension.

Mercury Motorcycle Hire Ltd was opened officially by mayor Mike Thomas, who cutting the ribbon surrounded by a number of established local bikers and spectators.

Emergency services were called shortly after 11.15pm on Friday, July 18 after two cars rolled following a collision on the A3058, Gwindra Road in St Stephen.

The hunt is on for former pupils of Helston's Green School in Penrose Road to attend an informal get together next Wednesday.

British Transport Police officers are appealing for information after man snatched a handbag and ran from a train at Hayle.

The body of a man found in a field near Bodmin has been formally identified as Gary Nice, 47, from Milbrook.

A new lady is lurking in the toilets of Porthallow's pub the Five Pilchards - and she's getting eyed up on a regular basis.

The RSPCA and fire crews from St Dennis, St Austell and Bodmin were drafted in just after 7am following a report of a deer stuck in a clay mica pit measuring approximately 100m circular in diameter.

This is one for spa-lovers. Technically this is two islands, but they are linked by a footbridge and the resort is spread over both.

The owners of a pasty factory in Falmouth have paid tribute to fast acting firefighters after a fire broke out, saying they are confident it will be back up and running, "in a short space of time".