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  • Camborne pensioner remains in critical condition after car crash

    By West Briton at 06:00 on 20/06/13
    The scene of the crash in Trelowarren Street, Camborne. : Paul Jackson, of Truro
    A CAMBORNE pensioner who was thrown through a betting shop window remains in a critical condition in hospital. The female pedestrian was airlifted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske, with serious leg injuries, after being hit by a car outside Betfred, Trelowarren Street, just before 10am on Monday. It is thought the 76-year-old male driver of a blue Citroën C4, who was treated for shock at the scene, might have been...

  • Teenager thought she would be killed in horror attack

    By West Briton at 06:00 on 20/06/13
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    A TEENAGER was left drifting in and out of consciousness on her bathroom floor after a vicious attack by her long-term boyfriend. Law student Hannah Heil, 19, lay in a daze as Truro shop worker James Marjoram, 26, repeatedly smashed a door into her head. After Marjoram left Truro Crown Court with a suspended jail sentence, having pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm (ABH), Hannah decided to speak out to warn others...

  • Pamela scoffs at formula for the perfect cream tea

    By West Briton at 06:00 on 20/06/13
    Pamela Glasson , who states that a bigger scone makes a better cream tea. Ref:TRJJ20130614B-003_C_C
    CLAIMS from a local creamery that it has found the "perfect" cream tea formula have caused quite a stir with at least one lifelong enthusiast. Commissioned by Redruth-based Rodda's Creamery, maths whiz Eugenia Cheng, from Sheffield University proclaimed the perfect Cornish scone treat would be 2.8cm (just over 1in) thick once the jam and cream were piled on. But Pamela Glasson, 86, from Truro, who has eaten cream teas all...

  • Coodes' family lawyer qualifies as only Arbitrator in South West

    By mpad_mark at 12:41 on 19/06/13
    Coodes Solicitors' Ian Taylor has qualified as the first lawyer to be able to provide arbitration support in Cornwall and Devon
    An expert family lawyer from St Austell has become the first lawyer in Cornwall and Devon to qualify to provide support under a new arbitration scheme. Ian Taylor, a partner at Coodes Solicitors, which has seven offices in Cornwall and Devon, has become a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). Arbitration is an alternative way for separating couples to settle disputes about finances and assets without going to...

  • FT recognition for Cornish firm

    By mpad_mark at 12:33 on 19/06/13
    Celebrating being shortlisted for an FT award are Worldwide Financial Planning’s (l-r) Neil Chamberlain, Rebecca Bendle, Andrew Stallard and Matt Dewhurst
    A firm of independent financial advisers is hoping to add to its successes after being shortlisted for a national award. Truro and Wadebridge based Worldwide Financial Planning is up against four other IFA firms across the country for the title of Large Adviser of the Year in the FT Adviser Online Service Awards. For the first time in the award's history advisors will be recognised for providing the best online proposition. Worldwide...

  • Police officer's body discovered

    By West Briton at 07:30 on 19/06/13
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    A SERVING police officer and former Truro-based PCSO has been found dead in her car. PC Gail Crocker is believed to have taken her own life. Officers were called to Hornick Hill in High Street, near St Austell, at about 9.15am on Saturday after concern was expressed for the welfare of PC Crocker, of St Stephen, and they were notified of a car parked in an unexpected location. The body of a woman was found in the car. A police...

  • FALMOUTHDrug charges

    By West Briton at 07:30 on 19/06/13
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    LUKE JEAN KEOGH, 22, of Boslowick Road, Falmouth, entered guilty pleas at Truro Magistrates' Court to possessing drugs at Truro on January 19 and was told to do 100 hours of unpaid work.

  • Watchdog investigates border raid yacht death

    By Western Morning News at 06:30 on 19/06/13
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    An investigation has been launched after a man fell to his death during a Border Force raid on a boat in the Isles of Scilly. Devon and Cornwall Police said the man, whose yacht had to be towed into St Mary's by the RNLI on Sunday, was fatally injured in a fall from the mast of his vessel – the Windrose. A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "Police were alerted that a man was seriously injured after falling from...

  • Free travel to Livestock Event in Birmingham

    By Western Morning News at 06:30 on 19/06/13
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    Farmers located near Bridgwater, Exeter, Frome, South Molton and Truro are able to travel free of charge to the Livestock Event in Birmingham on July 3 and 4. Event organisers the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers, supported by the Livestock Auctioneers' Association, is offering free coach travel from each market on purchase of an online entry ticket for £20, the same as gate price. RABDF chief executive Nick...

  • Dutch sailor dies in fall from mast as yacht boarded

    By Western Morning News at 06:30 on 19/06/13
    The Windrose yacht tied up in the Isles of Scilly and, below, the yacht being towed back to port Pictures: Robin Mawer
    A yachtsman plunged to his death on the Isles of Scilly after climbing the mast of his yacht during a Border Force operation. The Dutch man, who has not been named, suffered serious head injuries shortly after officers boarded his ship which was alongside at St Mary's. He was airlifted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital, at Truro, at around 8.30pm on Monday but died of his injuries. The scene was cordoned off yesterday as Devon and...
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