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  Legal uncertainty halts sale of Trevalga Estate 

  THE SALE of the Trevalga estate has been suspended while legal investigations are made into whether Marlborough College has the right to sell it. The private school, located in Wiltshire, believed it was the owner and put the 3,000-acre estate between Tintagel and Boscastle up for sale for £10 million. The estate, which produces an income of around £170,000 a year in rent, was withdrawn from the market on Friday while the dispute is considered. About 40 people on six farms and 16 dwellings fear for their future if the estate is sold. A leading barrister and solicitor have contacted the Battle of Trevalga group about the college’s right to sell. Trevalga was left by Gerald Curgenven, the last lord of the manor, to a trust in 1959, with the profits to go to his school, Marlborough College.

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• Erik Quinby 9:03 am on September 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  You don’t need to be in London to reach the top 

  STAFF at the Craig Chapman salon, based in Launceston, have been jumping for joy since hearing that they have reached the finals of three prestigious British hairdressing awards. As well as representing Cornwall in the bid for Wales and Southwest Hairdresser of the Year, the salon also beat stiff competition to gain a finalist place for both Avant Garde and Afro hairdresser of the year. The awards, established in 1984 by trade magazine Hairdressers Journal International, celebrate the best of British hairdressing creativity. For each entry, Craig had to submit four initial collection images showing the highest level of skill and styling, which were judged by industry icons resulting in the selection of the six finalists who go on to the grand final

  

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• User submitted 12:51 pm on September 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  London Transport win for altcom 

  Penzance-based website design and development specialist, altcom Limited, has been commissioned by the London Transport Museum to migrate its entire website to an open source content management system.

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• Darryl Harres 10:08 am on September 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Plath fans want fitting memorial 

  Bid to end long-standing friction over the unassuming resting place in the Yorkshire village of Heptonstall of Ted Hughes’s tragic partner A small stone in a cemetery in the Yorkshire village of Heptonstall marks the unassuming grave of Sylvia Plath, the American poet and novelist whose fame has grown each year since her suicide in 1963. And growing every year, too, are the numbers of foreign visitors who make a pilgrimage to the grave. Frequently they find it looking untended and unkempt, and this has prompted strong calls for a proper memorial to her life and work. “I am sure lots of people would volunteer to look after the grave regularly, as I have,” said Gail Crowther, a 38-year-old Plath scholar from Cumbria. “In fact, I know that people would donate money to pay for someone to do it too.” Many great poets, from Milton to Keats, Byron and Blake, are remembered in Westminster Abbey, or with grand monuments erected by admirers. Plath’s own husband, the late poet laureate, Ted Hughes, is already commemorated by a granite monolith, placed secretly, by special permission of Prince Charles, on a remote site on the Duchy of Cornwall Dartmoor estates following his death from cancer in 1998

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• Darryl Harres 9:48 am on September 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Toll on travel would risk demonising green efforts 

  Travel around the Westcountry is very difficult without a car, van, lorry or tractor. Even with one of these vehicles it is an expensive business. Transport is regularly named as the top factor affecting the region’s businesses and their ability to succeed. All this makes the timing of a new environmental report recommending toll charges and cross-border taxes on motorists all the more poorly timed. The report by the AEA consultancy says “ambitious and aggressive policy measures” are needed to get to grips with climate change.

  

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• Tania Beauvais 9:48 am on September 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Restored 111-year-old train gets new railway role 

  Cornwall‘s only steam railway now has an 111-year-old train trundling along its tracks. The London & South Western Railway T9 4-4-0 locomotive no. 30120 is on loan from the National Railway Museum – and will be making its public debut on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway. The tender engine, which has been completely restored, will now stay at the railway for at least the next 10 years. It’s one of a unique quartet of vintage steam engines running at the railway – the youngest of which dates from 1905.

  

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• Lonnie Hogge 12:01 pm on September 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  UK’s leading food region takes the taste of the West to capital 

  From award-winning cider to Cornish biscuits, the best of the South West’s food and drink will be on show in London next week. The 2010 Speciality and Fine Food Fair at Olympia will include a Taste of the West pavilion, showcasing the region’s produce. Exhibitors hope to attract the attention of buyers from top stores including Fortnum and Mason, Harvey Nichols and Harrods. The exhibition is the country’s largest food trade show for top-quality produce. Among the companies taking part will be Luscombe Organics, maker of fruit juices from Buckfastleigh, south Devon, which will be showing a range of 16 premium soft drinks

  

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• Erik Quinby 7:13 am on September 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Hunting ban was ‘a disaster’ admits Blair in astonishing memoirs 

  Hunt campaigners called for the immediate lifting of the ban yesterday after Tony Blair admitted it was a “disaster.” In an astonishing revelation, the former Prime Minister said it would have been “less trouble” to propose culling every fifth pensioner than the outrage sparked by the Hunting Act. Mr Blair says it is the introduction of the ban – rather than war with Iraq or the cash for honours probe – that he “most regrets” from his time in power. His opponents in the Westcountry have labelled the Act one of the “most illiberal, ineffective and wasteful laws of modern times” and say that the former Prime Minister’s confessions must spell its end. In his memoir, A Journey , Mr Blair claims to have deliberately sabotaged the 2004 Hunting Act to ensure there were enough loopholes to allow hunting to continue

  

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• Tania Beauvais 12:17 pm on August 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Young people forced to wait decades to buy home in Devon or Cornwall 

  The combination of high house prices, low salaries and a tight lending market mean that many first-time buyers in the Westcountry will be well into their 40s before they can secure their own home, a new report warns. A survey for the National Housing Federation (NHF) has revealed that an entire generation of young adults are being priced out of the housing market. Mortgage lender demands for big deposits following the banking crisis have compounded the Westcountry’s unique combination of high house prices and below- average rates of pay.

  

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• Allan Metellus 8:48 am on August 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Cornish ‘maverick spirit’ that turned crackpot idea into wine 

  A Westcountry wine lover who converted a simple passion into a successful business in the French heartland has broken into the world of high- class restaurants. Mark Hellyar, from Harlyn Bay in Cornwall, gave up a successful globetrotting career in IT and software to follow his dream and become a wine producer – a “crackpot idea”, dismissed by his wife as the ramblings of a man in a mid-life crisis. But just five years later the 46-year-old has established himself as a permanent fixture in the renowned Bourdeax region, and his Chateau Civrac now features on some of the most prestigious wine lists in the UK. Claiming to be the only Cornish vineyard owner around the Gironde estuary, Mark now produces up to 40,000 bottles a year from his 18th-century estate. And the father-of-two, whose family have farmed in the Padstow area for 500 years, has now fulfilled a lifetime ambition by supplying legendary restaurateur Michel Roux Jr at the acclaimed La Gavroche in London’s Mayfair.

  

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• Lonnie Hogge 7:03 pm on August 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Heston Blumenthal in Bray fray 

  Idiosyncratic chef and owner of Fat Duck restaurant accused of turning village into ‘Hestonworld’ Over pints of Rebellion, the local bitter, the parishioners of Bray are beginning to mutter darkly about the man who catapulted their genteel Berkshire village into the foodie stratosphere. While they do not deny that Heston Blumenthal and his idiosyncratic servings of mustard ice cream, crab biscuits and oak moss have done much for Bray, they fear that Britain’s most famous purveyor of molecular gastronomy may finally have gone too far. Not content with turning The Ringers pub into the Fat Duck restaurant – which was named the world’s best in 2005 – and taking over the Golden Hind, where champagne sells for £13.50 a glass, Blumenthal has now seized control of The Crown, the last remaining traditional drinking hole.

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• User submitted 5:25 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Cornwall features in name of new Cameron baby girl – Reuters UK 

  Telegraph.co.uk Cornwall features in name of new Cameron baby girl Reuters UK A woman delivers flowers to the Royal Cornwall hospital in Truro, south west England August 25, 2010. LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha have named their newborn daughter Florence Rose Endellion, Downing Street said … Camerons Name Baby Florence Rose Endellion Sky News PM names daughter after Cornish village AFP Cornish name for Cameron daughter The Press Association BBC News

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• Erik Quinby 1:27 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Everything in place for return to top flight 

  Paul Hull is confident Bristol have everything in place for a return to the Guinness Premiership as he prepares to send his players into battle in the first leg of their Championship play-off final. Hull’s men head to Exeter this evening in the first part of a double-header that will conclude at the Memorial Stadium next Wednesday – with the winners securing a lucrative place in the top tier of English rugby. And the head coach (pictured below) is convinced Bristol have the finances, the stadium, the backroom team and the players to compete in the Premiership. Bristol were relegated 12 months ago but have bounced back by finishing on top of the Championship table after the 22-game regular season, winning their play-off pool and then beating London Welsh in the semi-final. Now they face the acid test – a two-legged final against league runners-up Exeter, a team against whom they both won and lost during the regular season.

  

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• Darryl Harres 6:33 pm on August 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Tourism key to UK economy – PM 

  Income from £115bn-a-year tourism sector is ‘fundamental’ to recovery, says prime minister The UK has been underselling its tourist charms and should be a top global holiday destination, David Cameron said today. The prime minister also said that income generated by the £115bn-a-year tourism sector was “fundamental” to rebuilding the UK’s struggling economy. “I want to see us in the top five destinations in the world,” Cameron said in a speech at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, designed by Jean Nouvel. “But that means being much more competitive internationally

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  David Cameron urges Britons to help rebuild economy with UK holidays – The Guardian 

  The Guardian David Cameron urges Britons to help rebuild economy with UK holidays The Guardian The UK has been underselling its tourist charms and should be a top global holiday destination, David Cameron said today. The prime minister also said that income generated by the £115bn-a-year tourism sector was “fundamental” to rebuilding the UK’s … Give me sunshine: David Cameron considers double summertime Telegraph.co.uk United time zone: David Cameron may move clocks forward permanently – if he … Daily Mail Tourism must do better – Cameron BBC News The Press Association

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• Tania Beauvais 5:01 pm on August 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  10 green start-ups for travellers 

  Green motorway services just got the thumbs up, but there have been other initiatives launched this year that might appeal to carbon-conscious tourists With the news that planners have approved designs for the £35m Gloucester Gateway project , which aims to reinvent the motorway pitstop for the carbon-conscious generation, we take a look at other green initiatives launched this year that might appeal to tourists. 1. Place to St Mawes Ferry, Cornwall Visitors to Cornwall can now make the 10-minute minute ferry journey across the Roseland Peninsula powered by chip fat supplied by St Mawes Hotel . The boat trip from picturesque Place Creek to St Mawes is part of a year-long trial launched this June, aimed at saving money and reducing carbon emissions. Cornwall Ferries’ owner Tim Light is considering adding rose petals or sandalwood to scent the biodiesel and make the journey across the Roseland Peninsula as sweet as possible for passengers

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• Darryl Harres 12:54 pm on August 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Jail population to hit 88,500 by 2016 

  Rise tempered by figures showing underlying slowdown in growth which questions plan for massive prison building plan The prison population in England and Wales is predicted to rise by a further 3,500 to a record 88,500 by 2016 unless there are major changes in sentencing policy, according to new Ministry of Justice projections published today . The official estimates show that even if Ken Clarke’s promised “rehabilitation revolution” succeeds in persuading the courts to adopt a less punitive sentencing policy it is unlikely to cut the current 85,115 prison population by any more than 2,000. The annual prison population projections show that an even more punitive approach, encouraged perhaps by tougher “law and order” justice and home secretaries, could push the jail population up to 93,600 by 2016.

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• Darryl Harres 1:31 pm on August 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  The 20 best short-haul hotels 

  Fancy five-star style with a two-star price tag? We pick out 20 top-notch short-haul hotels at prices that don’t go through the roof 1. St Moritz Hotel, near Rock, Cornwall Following a modest £15m makeover in 2008, this is now one of Cornwall’s chicest boltholes. Each of the 48 bedrooms boasts oak floors, whitewashed walls and crisp furnishings – all in shades of sand, aqua and pale blue.

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• Lonnie Hogge 1:31 pm on August 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  The 20 best short-haul hotels 

  Fancy five-star style with a two-star price tag? We pick out 20 top-notch short-haul hotels at prices that don’t go through the roof 1. St Moritz Hotel, near Rock, Cornwall Following a modest £15m makeover in 2008, this is now one of Cornwall’s chicest boltholes. Each of the 48 bedrooms boasts oak floors, whitewashed walls and crisp furnishings – all in shades of sand, aqua and pale blue.

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• User submitted 11:21 am on August 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  What to see at the theatre 

  From The Persians in Wales to Teenage Riot in Plymouth, there’s plenty on in the UK – but Edinburgh’s lure is hard to resist Of course, not everybody is going to be in Edinburgh for the start of the fringe this weekend, so before I launch into some fringe tips – and ask for yours – here’s some of the things you can see around the rest of the country. The main draw is undoubtedly The Persians, by the National Theatre Wales, directed by Mike Pearson of Brithgof fame. Sold out for the entire run, I’m afraid, but returns may be available. Kneehigh’s Asylum season in Cornwall continues with The Red Shoes being joined by Blast! I’d book yourselves in for King of Prussia, later in August, too. You can catch Teenage Riot at the Drum in Plymouth before it heads to the Traverse in Edinburgh

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• Darryl Harres 11:23 pm on July 24, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Stirling prize plays safe as houses 

  The 2010 Riba Stirling shortlist is out and, as usual, the committee has missed some of the best candidates There is a band of buildings, skilful and brave in their design, that will feature prominently in future histories of current architecture. Some are world famous, some are hugely popular, some represent new ideas surfacing for the first time. All share the same badge of honour. They did not win the £20,000 Riba Stirling prize , the award for “the architects of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year”. These buildings include the Eden Project in Cornwall, Tate Modern, Selfridges in Birmingham, the New Art Gallery in Walsall, Will Alsop’s Hotel du Department in Marseille, Zaha Hadid’s Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg and her BMW Central Building in Leipzig

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• Tania Beauvais 11:22 am on July 20, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Cornwall Council to debate raising allowances AGAIN! 

  It seems incredible, but someone at Cornwall Council wants to argue the toss yet again about putting up councillors’ allowances. A paper in the name of the Leader of the Council Alex Robertson before Full Council next Tuesday includes a proposal for a 2.3% rise. I cannot believe that this will do anything but lower the reputation of councillors and the Council among the public. At the start of the new Cornwall Council, we debated allowances. The Lib Dems argued for a freeze in all allowances for the duration of the council (ie 4 years).

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• Tania Beauvais 4:42 pm on July 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Six of the best for eco-town project 

  SIX architectural practices –- from St Ives up to London – have been chosen as winners of a nationwide competition to design a new…

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• Lonnie Hogge 2:03 pm on July 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Cornwall Lib Dems call for local replacement for unaccountable RDA 

  Cornwall‘s Liberal Democrat councillors are calling on the Council to back a campaign for a local approach to administering European and central government support for the Duchy. The campaign comes after the Government took the decision to abolish the unaccountable Regional Development Agencies and replace them with Local Enterprise Partnerships. The coalition government has quite rightly made localism a key policy. If there are funds available from Europe or from central government to assist Cornish development and Cornish industry then it should be accountable local politicians and business leaders who should oversee how that money is spent.” Until now, Cornwall has been lumped in with places as far away as Wiltshire and Bristol under the unaccountable and hugely bureaucratic South West Development Agency. Cornwall was recognised by Europe as the poorest place in the UK and received large amounts of support through Objective One and Convergence funding.

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• Allan Metellus 12:44 am on July 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Beyond the blockbuster exhibitions 

  It’s blockbuster season at the big galleries. But Stuart Jeffries knows where he’d rather be – at Britain’s small spaces, where the truly thrilling work is to be found There is a tiny house made from human skin at the start of the Barbican gallery’s current Surreal House exhibition. It’s a sculpture called My Mother. My Father. My Sister. My Brother, and was made from pieces of artist Donald Rodney’s skin, removed during one of many operations he underwent to combat sickle cell anaemia before his death in 1998.

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• Lonnie Hogge 11:08 am on July 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  More carriages for Cornish sleeper train 

  More carriages are being added to the sleeper train from London to Cornwall due to an increase in demand.

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• Allan Metellus 11:01 am on July 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Sleeper train gets more carriages 

  The Night Riviera sleeper train from Cornwall to London has more carriages added because of an increase in demand.

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• Tania Beauvais 10:03 am on July 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Disruption of main rail link would be a big catastrophe 

  It is not an understatement to say that if the main rail link from London to the far West was severed at Dawlish, then it would be a catastrophe…

  

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• Lonnie Hogge 12:02 am on June 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Charles hits back in planning row 

  Prince’s private secretary claims he opposed modernist design out of duty to make ordinary people’s views heard It is an unlikely claim for a prince who enjoys a £17m private annual income and employs 16 gardeners but Clarence House today said that Prince Charles believes it is his duty to defend “ordinary people” against profiteering property developers. The claim was made as part of a fightback following a high court ruling that appeared to check the prince’s ability to intervene in major planning decisions. A judge ruled last week that the prince’s campaign against the design of a redevelopment of the Chelsea barracks in London was “unwelcome”. The judgment sparked criticism that Charles had overstepped his constitutional role by secretly lobbying at the highest levels against planning applications he disliked. Today Sir Michael Peat, the prince’s private secretary, claimed Charles opposed Lord Rogers’ £3bn modernist designs because “it is part of the Prince of Wales’ role and duty to make sure the views of ordinary people that might not otherwise be heard receive some exposure”. The prince wrote privately to Qatar’s prime minister voicing his opposition to the plans for apartments on the Qatari-owned land.

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• Lonnie Hogge 3:40 pm on June 29, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Putting new businesses back at forefront of British economy 

  Anyone who lives outside of the South East and London knows the feeling. The feeling that the boom of the last decade – the house price rises…

  

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• Lonnie Hogge 3:40 pm on June 29, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Prince’s Trust visit for Charles at Portmeirion – BBC News 

  Globe and Mail Prince’s Trust visit for Charles at Portmeirion BBC News The Prince of Wales has met youngsters supported by his own charity as he continued his tour of Wales. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall headed to Portmeirion, Gwynedd, home of the cult 1960s television series The Prisoner. … Prince Charles halves his official entertainment expenses The Guardian Prince of Wales cuts entertaining bill in half Telegraph.co.uk Prince Charles Cuts Catering as UK Recession Bites BusinessWeek The Press Association

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• Darryl Harres 9:20 pm on June 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Police in the news 

  This is Cornwall reports that Devon and Cornwall Police are to go on a charm offensive having seen their customer satisfaction ratings slip over the past year. My own impression is that our Police locally are doing a pretty good job. Whilst crime rates here are, thankfully, very low, the major task the Police face, in addition to investigating the crimes that do happen, is to make sure the public is aware that they are very unlikely to be a victim of crime. Also in the news is opposition from Devon and Cornwall Police Authority to the Conservative plan for directly elected Police Commissioners. Our local Police Authority – made up of a majority of councillors from across Devon and Cornwall but with independent members and magistrates as well – is fairly well regarded. I fail to see how creating a single Police Commissioner would help

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• Tania Beauvais 9:54 pm on June 24, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  How much to park here? 

  In news reminiscent of London, someone in St Ives has recently paid around £60,000 for a parking space. Full story here .

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