• Prime Minister's approval of CATS

  By break

  Strange,sounds almost like the usual ploy of saying something postive about something we care...

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 07:30 on 10/04/13

  

  THE BUDE-based organisation CATS has been commended by David Cameron for work in promoting, recognising and rewarding positive community action by young people through sport and social activities. Originally established in North Cornwall in 2005, Community Action Through Sport won a three-year Big Lottery grant in 2011 to help its work in harnessing young people's interest in sport around the Olympics. With the help of this...

• Homes fight is lost as £90m North Cornwall development approved

  By break

  Seems wrong that the developrs have an almost unlimited fund to be able to afford appeals,whereas...

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 07:40 on 10/04/13

  

  THE FIRST phase of a £90 million development in North Cornwall, opposed by both local councils and residents, has been approved. Bovis Homes Ltd won permission at Thursday's meeting of the Cornwall Strategic Planning Committee for 91 homes, 23 of them affordable, with a public square, distributor road, open space and drainage at Binhamy Farm, between Bude and Stratton. The permission marks the end of a long battle to prevent a...

• Bude teacher Sara Bluett dies in A39 crash

  By Raywat

  Sara a beautiful young lady who I wached grow up, sometimes from afar but never out of touch....

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 07:40 on 27/03/13

  

  BOUQUETS and tributes have been laid outside a school following the death of a graphics teacher from Bude in a crash on the A39. Sara Bluett, 46, who was deputy head of the design and technology department at The Park Community School in Barnstaple, was killed near Kilkhampton on Friday as she drove to work. Miss Bluett's Volkswagen Polo collided with a Ford Maverick pick-up truck towing a cattle trailer. The alarm was raised at...

• Rising Cornish star Kezia launches her debut EP

  By barrtribe

  Truly beautiful EP.

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 07:15 on 28/03/13

  

  CORNWALL'S rising singer-songwriter Kezia will release her self-titled debut EP digitally on Easter Monday. Kezia describes her music as "drifting between folk and blues by the way of country (with an English accent)". At just 21 she has played some of the major South West festivals including Boardmasters, Leopallooza and the Eden Sessions. She was also chosen to be one of the few Cornish musicians who performed in Olympic...

• Devon and Cornwall beaches see alarming drop in bathing water quality

  By toffer99

  Thanks talkinghound I'll try again.

            

   

  By Western Morning News at 08:01 on 27/03/13

  

  The number of Westcountry beaches boasting the highest water quality standards has dropped to the lowest level for a decade, with the fall being blamed on last year's washout summer. The Marine Conservation Society – publishers of the latest Good Beach Guide – said the drop in water quality was down to one of the wettest summers on record last year. The rain and flooding led to an increase in bacteria and viruses in...

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