Hayle, England News

A MECHANIC and MoT tester who had previously been disqualified from driving was caught trying to drive a broken down vehicle.

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.

Police have arrested a number of people and seized drugs and "significant quantities of cash" following a series of drugs raids in Hayle.

The 1 million plan, which was passed in September, will see emergency services work together from the one premises at Commercial Road.

Former MP Julia Goldsworthy has been selected as the Camborne, Redruth and Hayle Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for the 2015 general election.

Wave Hub has secured Finnish multinational firm Fortum, a company active in wave energy development, to take up a berth at its offshore test facility in St Ives Bay.

Firefighters were kept bust today after the strong winds brought down power cables and left a sign dangling in a precarious position.

An agreement with Finnish multi-national utilities firm Fortum to secure a berth at the Wave Hub offshore renewable energy test facility at Hayle has been called a "vindication of the original public sector investment".

Crews from Camborne and St Ives attended the scene just after 11.30pm, and used two breathing apparatus and a hose reel to extinguish the fire in the heavily smoke-logged property.

8pm Illustrated talk at Penzance Sailing Club from Jean and Steve Hall on their sail last year to the Antarctic, South Georgia and Tristan da Cunha on Dutch barque 'Europa'.

A FORMER city student and his friend died when the car they were in collided with a lorry and burst into flames.

"On crews' arrival the caravan was totally destroyed by fire.The fire had also spread to an adjacent porta-cabin," the spokesman said.

TWO young men died almost instantaneously when the car they were in slid out of control and embedded itself into the front of a lorry travelling in the other direction.

A 59-YEAR-OLD Hayle man has appeared before Truro magistrates accused of indecently assaulting a girl between 1974 and 1979.

A PREGNANT mother who failed to reach hospital because of the storm chaos ended up giving birth to her baby boy in a Hayle petrol station.