Trust reveals hospital strategy
BBC News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The five-year strategy for West Cornwall Hospital, outlined to residents at a meeting in Penzance, receives a mixed reaction.
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New Outlet 'Bohemia Guild' Penzance, Cornwall
Cotton Cottage (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Cotton Cottage has a new outlet. The 'Bohemia Guild' Located at 54 Market Jew Street, Penzance across from the railway station Bohemia Guild is a retail outlet dedicated to local quality crafters Open Monday to Saturday 10am - 5pm
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Torbay RTC: Free Software for Macs
EdCompBlog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Live blog from #torbayrtc Simon Elliot from West Cornwall RTC started by saying that Penzance is not in the middle of nowhere, it's at the end of nowhere! :-) First bit of software displayed is iWeb. He thinks that this is a much neglected piece of software and is dismissed by some because it is "not a proper web design tool". (Twets during this presentation included "iWeb = iWin"...
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High tide on Hamble after storms
Water & Art (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
High tide on the River Hamble sketch, 15/11/09 Saturday 14th November Weather stormy, very wet and windy Friday afternoon and through Saturday. Glad we came back from Cornwall last weekend as it sounds as if that bore the brunt of Friday's weather. Sea over the road at Penzance apparently. Severe flood warning for Christchurch Harbour on Friday night. A number of other flood warnings / watches along...
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Atlantic waves
Water & Art (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Here is a video of Atlantic waves crashing against the cliffs at Botallack in southwest Cornwall, filmed at the beginning of November. From here, this turns into a rant about compromised holidays and preoccupation with health matters. Feel free to move on if this isn't for you... At the beginning of November, we had a week away on the Penwith Peninsula in southwest Cornwall. We stayed in cottage we'd...
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St Ives Cornwall - Shops
St Ives Cornwall (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Trims Greengrocers - Now Sadly Closed I was really surprised when I got back from holiday in Spain to discover that another long established shop in town has closed - Trims Greengrocers. I don't know the full story but I heard that they closed down suddenly, with only a couple of days notice. Also that they're closed for good. If you know any different let me know. That leaves us with just one specialist...
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An aside (Sept 29)
The Adventures of a Cornish Walker (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
After these three days walking we had a rest day, I certainly needed it! I hadn't done any walking preparation this time so it took me a while to get into the swing, Tim had been doing regular walks so was on better form than me, and, no, Big A, we did not walk through the delights of Newquay itself! We're doing the walk.. but we're not daft! We have granted ourselves a Cornish Walker's Poetic Licence!...
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Complaint made over harbour plans
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A campaign group in Penzance formally complains about the actions of Cornwall Council officers over plans for a new sea link to the Isles of Scilly.
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Jim's Cornish Pasties
La Fuji Mama (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
One of the joys of food blogging is the contact that I sometimes get to have with some of you! I recently had a wonderful email exchange with a reader named Jim. Jim is from Cornwall, England, the birthplace of Cornish pasties--a meat pie traditionally filled with cubed beef, potatoes, turnips (or rutabaga), and onions. I was able to ask Jim about pasties and he told me that his mother made them "perhaps...
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The end once again
Public Transport Of The Plymouth Area (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Picture shows E215 and E216 BTA together. E216 BTA (below) is about to work a 76 to Callington, where E215 BTA has just returned from a trip to Wembury on the 48. With all the recent fleet updates that have been happening in the area, there, as has been reported, been a considerable loss of high floor vehicles. The latest to go are the two E reg Volvo Citybus' these being E215 BTA and E216 BTA. These...
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Trader Gray passed away
SalvoNEWS (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Images from This is Cornwall TERRY Gray, known familiarly as Trader Gray, ran the Shiver Me Timbers salvage yard in Penzance, Cornwall UK. His ramshackle yard in Long Rock, where he lived and worked, featured a large mock pirate's galleon built from reclaimed wood. A YouTube video shows him heating bricks by a woodburning stove which he placed in his bed and night to keep warm. His business was open...
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Life after Plymouth: K104SFJ
Plymothian Transit (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
" A few of the Dennis Dart fleet have escaped Plymouth ” Retrobus on Flickr (Some great Penzance shots uploaded recently) Omnibuses2.0 On-board wi-fi may just hold the key to encouraging motorists to use bus & coach services. ©Retrobus. Zoar Travel Nr Helston Cornwall Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer Ex Plymouth City Bus K104SFJ Sat 10.10.09 It has long been the case that local operators...
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Objections raised to harbour plan
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Residents pack a meeting to voice objections to Cornwall Council's 'preferred option' for developing Penzance harbour.
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Sat, Spat - Spat, sat.
Apple Vale Alpacas (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Hi folks, I make no apologies for teasing you with some pictures of St. Michaels Mount near Penzance, and a parascender over St. Ives, from our holiday in Cornwall. We were lucky to have another week without rain, if mainly cloudy - that's 3 weeks without rain down here. We took the opportunity to visit Julie Taylor-Browne at her farm in Cornwall, to buy some halters for the cria, and she kindly showed...
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Counting the counties....
The Cotswold Canary (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
I was out and about the other day in Somerset and on my way back to Gloucestershire I passed through Wiltshire. This got me to thinking, how many of the 86 counties in Great Britain have I actually visited (as in actually stopped there)? I thought it would be almost all of them... It's not. See the end of the post for my total - advise me oh worthy masses which unvisited counties should I go to...?...
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