Cornwall and Isles of Scilly County, England News

A LEADING health campaigner says she is "very concerned for the residents of West Penwith" over the options outlined for the future of a local community hospital.

It will be used to renovate Poltair Nursery in St Austell and also further develop provision at their Lostwithiel nursery, near St Winnow School.

The overturned vehicle has blocked the A390 in to Liskeard, near to Callington Road and queues are forming from the Merrymeet junction.

A FORMER Bodmin police officer took her own life after her husband learnt she'd had a relationship with a colleague.

Cornwall Air Ambulance is asking offices across the county to go green this Christmas to help keep their lifesaving red helicopter flying.

A MAN in his 20s has been airlifted to Derriford Hospital with 'life-changing and life-threatening injuries after being in collision with a car on Alverton Road, Penzance at about 5.40pm today.

The seagulls are believed to have been shot while perching on a roof at Voundervour Lane, connecting Chapel and Queen streets, one of them ending up impaled on a fence spike.

PROUD DAY: RNLI lifeguard Lewis Timson with the Gareth Nicholas Memorial Trophy, presented by Gareth Nicholas's widow Helen.

POLICE are asking for information in relation to a burglary, two thefts and an incident of criminal damage in Falmouth and Penryn.

A DEVELOPER has come on board to buy the running track land at Carn Brea leisure centre in a deal that will provide funding for the centre's huge overhaul.

When the Government announced it was abandoning the extended badger cull, hunt saboteurs were quick to claim the credit.

DOC MARTIN: REVEALED features behind-the-scenes footage from the newest DOC MARTIN series shot on location in Port Isaac, Cornwall, England.

A NEW Cornish charity supporting unpaid carers has hosted its first fundraising evening at the Old Lifeboat Bistro in Penzance.

A FORMAL dinner and concert at The Queens Hotel marked the anniversary of the granting of Penzance Rotary Club's charter.

The trip to Bracklesham Bay is being organised by the charity NBFA Assisting the Elderly, whose president is Baroness Betty Boothroyd, the former speaker of the House of Commons.

EVERYONE knows there's only one Santa Claus - but around 100 of his doppelgangers took part in a charity fun run on a Newquay beach yesterday.

New Fisheries Minister George Eustice faces "tricky" issues in securing a long-term future for the Westcountry fleet, industry leader Paul Trebilcock has said.

Flybe has agreed a commercial deal that will enable the airline to continue operating flights between Newquay and London Gatwick.

FlyBe is expected to announce today that it will keep the Newquay to London Gatwick route, which was due to be axed in March, running until October 25 next year.

Liskeard Silver Band played for the town's lantern parade, which was said to have brought much of the town to a virtual standstill Pictures: Sean Hernon Liskeard Silver Band serenaded the procession, which was said to have brought much of the town to a virtual standstill.