Penryn, England News

The former Penair School pupil from Truro, who played for Penryn and Truro as a youngster, enjoyed an illustrious career with Bath, Wasps, Gloucester and this season London Welsh.

It seems Cornwall Council doesn't like a Penryn developer's plans to house 200 university students on the edge of a Falmouth industrial estate.

Tea, cake and taster sessions were the order of the day when the Highway Community Centre in Penryn opened its doors and invited in residents wanting to learn more.

RNAS Culdrose hosted students from Falmouth, Penryn and Mullion secondary schools for the launch of this year's Citizenship For Life programme.

Plans for a new multi-million pound veterinary practice in Penryn, first revealed by the Packet earlier this year, have been formally submitted.

Ms Chadwick, who has been responsible for the area since the post was created in 2010, has been moved to cover the Camborne, Redruth and Pool area.

The award winning Citizenship for Life programme is back and has expanded in 2013 by running two programmes; one in the west with twelve students from Mullion School, Penryn College and Falmouth School and one in Newquay with ten students from Newquay Tretherras School and Treviglas Community College.

A father died alongside his eight-year-old daughter in a speedboat crash that rocked the county, and the country, this weekend.

Well known Penryn rugby player Brian Bate, who played in the town's first team for seventeen and a half years, has died suddenly in his home.

He spent 17 years playing for the town's first team and played a 14 different positions during his career - a record he still holds.

A developer's plan to house 200 students on a Falmouth industrial estate has not found favour with Cornwall Council officers.

A Penryn man, who swapped bricklaying for baking, has presented his award-winning novelty lifeboat cake to the Falmouth branch of the charity that saves lives at sea.

The votes for Cornwall Council have been counted and the dust has settled, temporarily at least - so here at thepacket.co.uk we are bringing you a round up of the election results for Falmouth and Penryn.

There's a new Lair of the Beasts article from me at Mania.com. Its subject is a thought-provoking one: namely, how there is often a rise in the disappearance of pet cats in the UK when their larger and somewhat mysterious cousins - the Alien Big Cats - are around.

ILLOGAN remain six points clear at the top of the Jolly's Cornwall Combination League table after Tuesday's 5-3 win at St Ives Town.

POLICE in Truro want to speak to anyone with information about a 9,000 Yamaha 80 outboard engine stolen from a harbour master's boat.

A Penryn-born artist will display his latest painting of the J-Class at Falmouth Art Gallery before it goes under the hammer at Christie's this summer.

Fizzes, whizzes and bangs were the order of the day at Constantine Primary School's Science Day, when pupils explored the world of the weird with a raft of exciting experiments.

Penryn commuters and rail passengers will need to keep some spare change handy from now on if they want to use the town's station car park.

The Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward will be in Cornwall on Monday where he visit the Tremough university campus in Penryn and the Hall for Cornwall.