Porthleven, England News

A cannon that stands outside Helston Museum looks likely to remain in situ, the Packet has learnt, after the ancient weapon was found to be a listed artefact in a conservation area.

HELSTON Town Band has joined forces with renowned tenor John Treleaven to make what is believed to be the first all-Cornish vocal recording of the Floral Dance.

It was the age old problem of money that was delaying the rebuilding of Helston Community College, the councillor overseeing Cornwall's education explained last week.

For the first time a purely Cornish rendition of the Floral Dance has been recorded as a song onto CD.

Mrs Lugg, originally from Porthleven, worked as a nurse at the Royal Cornwall and West Cornwall hospitals, in nursing homes and then at the hospital in Helston.

On November 20 the group raised A 114 with a one off raffle at the Queen's Arms pub, during the regular monthly quiz night, before the pub donated an additional A 65 generated by the quiz itself.

THE main road between Helston and Porthleven will be closed for around three months in the new year as major engineering works get under way.

A silence fell over Helston and the Lizard Peninsula on Monday when, as one, the town and parishes remembered the sacrifices made by the war dead.