The Cornish community is pulling together to offer free holidays to those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire in London. The first will be a week in Falmouth at the end of August. Cornwall Hugs Grenfell is inviting families from the tower and those in adjacent blocks to register interest in the holiday, which has been offered by Falmouth University and the University of Exeter. Great Western Railway (GWR) has donated rail vouchers for families to travel to Cornwall for the holiday. Each...

Welcome to our live coverage of all the day's biggest stories, traffic and travel from across Cornwall on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. We'll be looking at all the traffic so keep checking back to make sure you get wherever you're going as quickly and safely as possible. We will of course also be breaking news as it happens and keeping an eye on the weather. It's Gareth here until 2.30pm when I hand over to the late team led today by Charlotte. If you've seen something going on and want us to...

Cornwall Council has issued a fresh warning after a Truro man became the latest to receive a phone call out of the blue from someone claiming to be from the council tax department. The Truro man, who received the telephone call late last Friday morning, told Cornwall Council: "The caller said he was from the Council Tax office and he had my name and address. But I realised it wasn't a local number and when I confronted him and told him it sounded like a scam he hung up." Jenny...

A man has died after a bus crash in Truro yesterday. The man, in his 80s, was involved in the collision with what appeared to be a PR1 Park and Ride bus around 9.45am on Monday morning. It happened on Station Road in the city, which was shut for hours as investigations took place. Police confirmed on Tuesday the man had died and his next of kin informed. The man had been treated by paramedics at the scene in a land ambulance while an air ambulance is understood to have landed at nearby...

Residents who just four months ago celebrated seeing off plans to build a 50ft phone mast in the centre of their village again fear the worst after Vodafone returned with a new, shorter proposal. Back in March Cornwall Live reported that villagers in Stithians were almost unanimously opposed to the application submitted by Vodafone's agent Galliford Try to build the 50ft mast. If given the green light by planners the mast would have been built on land at the Telephone Exchange, East Road in...

When I met "almost 80-year-old" John Turner at his shop Blitz and Pieces in St Agnes, it was like stepping through a Narnia-style time warp.Surrounded by hundreds of relics harking back to decades past, it felt as though I had stepped straight into the 1940s.John, who wouldn't divulge his real age, simply saying that he was almost 80, has been collecting military memorabilia and authentic pieces from the Second World War for decades.Read more: A 1940s party was held in St Agnes over...

A former Cornwall child protection police officer who was spared a jail sentence after being found with indecent images of children on his laptop has admitted similar charges.Robert Branney, a former St Austell policeman, appeared at Plymouth Magistrates Court via video link with Bodmin police station yesterday (June 24) and pleaded guilty to the charges put to him.The 70-year-old admitted that between March 30, 2016 and June 21, 2016 he made indecent images of children, namely 25 Category A...

A mother-of-three endured "23 years of hell" after complications linked to a hysterectomy performed by a notorious Truro surgeon blighted her life and meant she had to undergo dozens more operations, an inquest has heard. In 1992 Kym Gambie underwent what was considered to be a routine procedure performed by obstetrician Rob Jones, who was later the subject of numerous safety reviews and expressions of concern over his practice. But the 56 year old died in 2015 having never...

The main road into a village that was devastated in last week's dramatic flash flood reopened on Monday. Last Tuesday, Coverack, on the Lizard peninsula, became the centre of a huge rescue and recovery operation after it was engulfed in a terrifying flash flood. As much as an inch of rainfall came down in 15 minutes and huge waterfalls cascaded over the seawall, houses were completely flooded and the roads were ripped apart by the force of the water. Read more: Coverack flash flood: Woman...

Police, the air ambulance, ambulance cars and the fire service have attended a crash in Cornwall that left several injured. The serious collision took place this afternoon on the B3247 at Millbrook between St Andrew Street and Withnoe Lane. Read more: A38 partially blocked after a lorry overturned near Bodmin Parkway train station - live updates A person is thought to have suffered potentially life-changing injuries in the crash, the Plymouth Herald reports. The road on which the...

A Cornish father who lost two of his children and a family friend in a horrendous drink-drive crash 21 years ago said he can still remember the horror of the incident and the force of the impact. Steve Kimberely, an estate agent from Falmouth, was the sole survivor of the crash in 1996 when a Range Rover hit their car at Notter Bridge on the A38. His daughter Lucy, 10, and son Matthew, 12 and family friend Ben Jewell, 19, all died. The driver of the other car, Brian Rabin, from Plymouth,...

A bin lorry which overturned and ended up in a ditch on the A38 near Bodmin remains at the side of the road this morning. The lorry overturned between Turdown Road and Drift Lane, Bodmin, near Bodmin Parkway station. Read more: Video of Cornwall boy Stanley Lewis rushing to Asda to get a cucumber and eat it gets viral There were reports of fuel spillage following the incident and the A38 in the area was partially blocked. This morning, there are reports of slow traffic in the area as...

A 37-year-old woman has been arrested after a dramatic crash left a car on its side on the A39. The incident took place earlier this afternoon. Police were called just before 3pm to a single-vehicle crash on the A39 at Tremough Campus in Penryn when a blue car flipped by Treliever roundabout. Read more: A38 partially blocked after a lorry overturned near Bodmin Parkway train station - live updates A spokeswoman for Devon and Cornwall police said there were no known injuries. The driver,...

A woman from Perranporth said that seagulls nesting near her property have caused "five weeks of hell".Linda Boylen said that three chicks ended up falling from a nest on her neighbour's property and into her patio causing the parents, and up to 15 gulls at one point, to attack her.Read more: Police warning after number of cats poisoned in Cornwall village reaches 18Linda said that the attacks were so bad that on some days she was unable to even get into her own home.Linda said:...

A mum from Cornwall has filmed her crazy race to get her son a cucumber and the Internet has gone mad about it.Alice Lewis, from St Austell, filmed her adventures when she had to rush to Asda in 16 minutes to get her crying son Stanley a cucumber.Read more: These Cornish towns have been identified as one of the UK's loneliest areasIt all happened on Sunday, July 13. Stanley, who has just turned three years old, started off crying for his favourite food - a cucumber - less than half and hour...

Two petitions, centred on concerns about the future of West Cornwall Hospital, were handed over last week – but the trust that runs it insists there is no reason to be concerned. A band of campaigners and Labour councillors presented the chair of Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT), Jim McKenna, with the petitions – which they say obtained more than a thousand signatures of support on a single Saturday. The campaign comes after CQC inspectors delivered a scathing verdict on...

A hotelier who scooped more than £100,000 by backing Donald Trump to win the US election has met the president and his wife.John Mappin, owner of the Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel, Cornwall, met Mr Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at a Republican party fundraising event in Washington.Mr Mappin, 51, won £110,767 after placing 33 bets with William Hill on the billionaire businessman beating Hillary Clinton.Read more: Huge jellyfish discovery on Newquay beach sparks fears of...

The four remaining Love Island couples are gearing up for the popular TV show's live final tonight. And soon, people will get the chance to meet one of the main contestants from this year's show in Plymouth. Love Island sees a number of singletons head to the Spanish Island of Majorca in an attempt to find love. Read next: Huge jellyfish discovery on Newquay beach sparks fears of another Cornwall summer invasion To remain in their spectacular sun-kissed surroundings, the Islanders will...

A developer looks set to resubmit plans for up to 450 new homes in Wadebridge after its original proposals were thrown out earlier this year. As well as 450 houses on land to the north-west of Wadebridge, the proposals comprised a new link road to provide a new 30mph route between the A39 Ball roundabout and the B3314. The plans, submitted by Wyndthorpe Estates, were rejected by Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee after being recommended for refusal by the case officer. Read...

A retired nurse has lifted the lid on the damage caused by loneliness after Redruth and Camborne was identified as one of the UK's loneliest areas. The British Red Cross is this week launching a new service to tackle loneliness and social isolation in the two towns. The charity is responding after finding that the area is one of 39 places in the UK where help is most needed. The Community Connector service is one of 49 new schemes being introduced across the UK through the British Red...