• Cultivated cannabis

  By GOTTALUVKAYA

  Words fail me. This man consumed cannabis in his own home harming nobody. Who does the judge think...

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 08:00 on 01/02/12

  

  A PENSIONER who has been a cannabis user for 50 years "eats and drinks" the drug, Truro Crown Court heard on Friday. Kenneth Matthews, 67, of Grimscott Estate, Grimscott, near Bude, was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, at Truro Crown Court on Friday. Matthews must also comply with an electronically tagged nightly curfew, from 7pm to 7am, for three months. "Taking cannabis in that way is a...

• Bakers Dolphin expands into Cornwall

  By strikealight

  So it's no good people in Bude then.........

            

   

  By sophia1980 at 12:05 on 31/01/12

  

  One of the West Country's oldest holiday businesses is expanding into Cornwall for the first time offering UK and continental coach holidays for local people.   Bakers Dolphin, which was started in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset in 1889 is offering a door to door service with free home pick-ups for anyone who lives within 10 miles of Truro, Falmouth, Liskeard or St Austell.   Sales and Marketing Director Amanda...

• People Power - Serco Agrees Trial of Weekend Clinics at Stratton

  By For Your Child

  My 6yr old son deteriorated quickly last night (he has been ill for around 4 days) at around...

            

   

  By BudePeeps at 12:19 on 21/01/12

  

  Weekend medical clinics will be run in Bude on a trial basis for three-months following concerns about out-of-hours GP care. Following a meeting yesterday between Serco and PCT, Serco  has said it would operate clinics on Saturday and Sunday mornings in Bude for three months. A car will also be based at the community hospital. A meeting held last Saturday brought out more than 300 people in protest at the move of services from...

• Engineer seeks specific ABC aero engine left with college in Sixties

  By dawnrw

  Can you help in this quest for an aero engine?

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 08:00 on 01/02/12

  

  A MAN who lives in France but was originally from North Cornwall has appealed to readers for help in his quest for an aero engine. Nick Cole, from Bude, is searching for an ABC aero engine which, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, powered the radio-controlled Queen Bee target planes at Cleave Camp Artillery Training Grounds, just north of Bude. The engine has two cylinders, horizontally opposed, with a red crankshaft housing and...

• Florist is going for gold at the Chelsea Flower Show

  By dawnrw

  Well done to Erica at Bleujen Florist

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 08:00 on 01/02/12

  

  A FLORIST in North Cornwall is hoping to go one better and take a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in May. Erica Tippett, 25, who owns Bleujen Florist in Bude, has had to design and construct a table display for the Olympics to qualify for this year's Chelsea. "I was really chuffed with the outcome receiving 91 out of a 100, a clear 25 marks ahead of everyone else in my category. This design was created from a cylinder of...

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