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Derek for St Ives (Free subscription) | 01/02/2010
Last Thursday, 28 January I was joined by Richard Benyon MP, Shadow Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Julie Girling MEP on a visit to Newlyn. Many livelihoods depend on Cornwall's fishing industry, yet it is an industry in need of urgent effective action. Fishermen must be given far greater control over the future of their industry and fast. Richard Benyon MP understands this....
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JR and Sue (Free subscription) | 22/01/2010
Haven't done much birding lately but spent today around the West of Cornwall, down at Drift, Newlyn, Sennen and Hayle. Nice to bump into Sam at Drift and also Richard. Some of these shots were digi-scoped by John and some taken by me.
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Young Birders (Free subscription) | 16/01/2010
My first post on here so Hi to all the other bloggers. Just thought I'd post some of my images taken over the last few weeks. First Red Kite, Gigrin Farm, Wales Second, Turnstone, Newlyn Harbour, Cornwall Third, Cold Teal, Marazion Marsh RSPB, Cornwall Check out more of my pics at: ashleyh-photography.blogspot.com
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"The Pit" (Free subscription) | 10/01/2010
Snow, snow and more snow............. We are as I type, having another "downfall", not sure whether that's the right words for "load of snow", but I'm sure you get what I'm meaning, we certainly aren't used to this in the UK let alone, warm, sunny, yet mostly windy (as Lisa always kept telling us before we moved here) Cornwall! The postman managed to get through to us yesterday,...
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Through the gaps! (Free subscription) | 05/01/2010
Cornwall's increasing reliance on the tourist industry, where jobs are often seasonal, has created real rural poverty - over the last twenty years in the Penwith area, almost all the light engineering and other manufacturing businesses that once employed many have shut their doors. Both Penzance and Newlyn, with fishing and other port based industries and businesses, must fight to extract as many
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Through the gaps! (Free subscription) | 04/01/2010
Seafood Cornwall Training, the Newlyn based centre for Fish Industry Skills in Cornwall celebrated a bumper Christmas this year, thanks to a grant of £6,579.79 from Cornwall Works Working Neighbourhoods. The training school has been able to embark on a comprehensive project to purchase new computers for staff, presentation equipment essential for course delivery and laptops to provide fishermen...
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War Through the Generations (Free subscription) | 31/12/2009
Away From the Bombs by Ricky Clitheroe was another book chosen by Fleur Fisher of Fleur Fisher Reads for the WWII reading challenge. Here’s an excerpt from her review: Another boy evacuated to Cornwall – but in this case to my father’s home town of Newlyn. I found a copy in the Cornish section of the [...]
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Falmouth Packet | News (Free subscription) | 30/12/2009
Seafood Cornwall Training, the Newlyn based centre for Fish Industry Skills in Cornwall celebrated a bumper Christmas this year, thanks to a grant of £6,579.79 from the Cornwall Works Working Neighbourhoods.
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Natural World Photography by Bob Sharples (Free subscription) | 25/12/2009
Hi Happy Xmas to you all. A fairly sunny day in Cornwall so the pub lost out and I went to Marazion and Newlyn. The first images are the reason for the title. Hope you like the pictures. Double clicking to enlarge will enable best views of the images. Grey Heron with Xmas Lunch. I think he has done better than me. To ham salad rolls for lunch. Last week I thought I had my best Heron fishing shots....
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Through the gaps! (Free subscription) | 15/12/2009
Using the Newlyn Harbour AIS page it is possible to see what sort of fishing activity there is around the coast of Cornwall. There are obviously some significant shoals of pelagic fish off the Lizard - three big freezer trawlers, the Ariadne, Helen Marie and Oceaan VII are working the grounds together today.
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UK400ClubRareBirdAlert (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Ageing GREAT NORTHERN DIVERS in late November and early December Last night, admittedly in poor weather conditions, a GREAT NORTHERN DIVER was observed at Brogborough Lake in Bedfordshire which proved far from straightforward to age (see Neil Wright's image at the top of this thread). The bird was very dark and contrasting on the upperparts and showed little 'chequering' on the mantle and back typically...
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Dog Without A Bone (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The closing date for the Round Britain Rally , in which participants are challenged to find and photograph one or more landmarks for every county in England, Wales and Scotland, has passed and I have dispatched a CD of photos to the committee. This means that I can actually reveal the places I visited! At last! Google Map here . Green bikes are ones I've ticked off, red blobs I didn't manage. There's...
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The Observer (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Tate teams up with Nick Park's Aardman to give children chance to create characters, stories and drawings for animated film For any small child who dreams of seeing stories and characters plucked from his or her imagination turned into a film, that fantasy could become reality. Primary school children will have the opportunity to create their own animated characters on the same lines as Wallace &...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
A decision on an application for more than £2m of European cash to update Newlyn fish market in Cornwall is delayed.
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art space gallery st ives (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Regular readers may have noticed our ad (below) and I can report that, as of 25 September, there has been major change at Art Space with the departure of some long standing members and the arrival of two new artist members! For Sara Pound the Millennium was a moving year - she came to Truro along with husband, 3 children & Flossie the dog. In 2001 she took up life-drawing, along with pastels and...