Cornwall and Isles of Scilly County, England News

The star of the show will be the only working T9 locomotive in the world, which is usually based on Cornwall's Bodmin and Wenford Railway, where it is on loan from the National Railway Museum.

PENRYN College's Interact Club has seen off competition from 360 other clubs to be crowned the best in Britain and part of Europe.

Fundraising by a Porthleven fish and chip shop will this year be in support of 771 squadron at RNAS Culdrose.

Penwith District Council was formed on April 1 1974 and covered the Lands End Peninsula including the towns of Hayle, Penzance, St Ives and St Just.

The concert was a special occasion for member Gareth Thomas, pictured, who is celebrating 34 years as the band's principal cornet player and who will be playing a brand new cornet when they compete shortly at Torquay.

A cargo ship which started sinking 10 miles off the Lizard Peninsula has been towed to safety in St Austell Bay.

Falmouth Coastguard has towed a cargo vessel into St Austell Bay after it began sinking 12 miles east of the Lizard on Sunday morning.

A 62-YEAR-OLD Newquay woman who received more than 8,000 in benefits to which she was not entitled has been spared an immediate jail term.

ST IVES School which has recently emerged from special measures has appointed a new head teacher to lead the school from the start of the next academic year.

FOUR members of a family have admitted their parts in a violent confrontation with door staff outside St Austell nightclub The Station.

THE National Trust has launched its new 3 million off-road cycle trails at its Lanhydrock estate, with predictions that they will attract thousands of new visitors to the area.

After taking over in 1999, Mr Johns led the band to the West of England Bandsman's Festival title in 2011 and narrowly missed out on retention when it finished runner-up a year later.

ASK Newquay residents for a list of their top bugbears and the issue of derelict buildings is likely to feature on most.

HIT coastal towns in Cornwall are being encouraged to bid for a cut of a A 64 million fund to help regenerate their communities.

A GAS tank began leaking at an address at Tresowes Hill, Ashton, sparking an emergency response by firefighters last night.

A DOORMAN at a Newquay pub was taken to hospital in the early hours of this morning after he was attacked with a bottle.

A cheque for A 3,000 was presented to John Buddle Chairman of the Camborne Branch of Cancer UK recently.

A BUSINESS forum has been dismissed as a "talking shop" full of "corporate chums" after it offered support for a possible new bid to build a shopping complex near St Austell.

A CAR snapped an electricity pole in half and ended up on its roof in an accident in Bodmin this afternoon.

Radstock Kawasaki star Luke Hawkins begins his defence of the Premiership Motocross Championship in the first round of the new Phoenix Tools-backed series at Kingsteignton, near Newton Abbot, tomorrow.