A 10-year-old schoolboy has got on his bike to give a disabled teenager a 16th birthday to remember. Alfie George, a Year 5 pupil at Padstow School, came up with idea on his own and decided to add a fancy dress spin to it as well.Christopher Hawke suffers with tetrasomy, which leaves him in a wheelchair with learning difficulties, sleeping problems, epilepsy and visual impairment. He is well-known in Padstow and among the children at the school, even though he attends a specialised school in St...

Whether you're experienced or looking to get your foot in the door, Cornwall has a range of current job vacancies to suit you. Advanced beauty therapy apprentice, Truro Truro and Penwith College has apprenticeship opportunities that it says can provide a pathway to a full-time career in health and beauty. By working at the college's newly-refurbished professional salon based at Haven House in the centre of Truro, it said you can gain practical experience through this full-time, one-year...

Crafting the perfect CV can be a challenge at the best of times, but what do you do when you have no previous work experience to brag about? There's no need to panic as Fish4Jobs has teamed up with experienced recruiter Andrew Fennall to outline some key advice to help you get your foot in the door with an attractive CV. Andrew Fennell has experience as a recruiter across multiple industries, not only that but he is founder of London CV writing service StandOut CV and author of How to Write...

It may be opposed by residents, businesses and even Historic England and Visit Cornwall, but plans for a Premier Inn in Falmouth town centre are being recommended for approval by planners. The scheme, for a five-storey, 70-bed, hotel with undercroft parking for just 18 residents goes before Cornwall Council's planning committee on Monday. It is subject of a public meeting on Tuesday at 6pm at Falmouth School to enable residents to make comments to committee members in advance of the main...

A baby grow being sold by a store with branches across Cornwall has been slammed by shocked mothers for 'condoning rape'. B&M, which has branches in Truro, Pool, Penzance, Par, Bude, Liskeard and Saltash, is selling the bay clothing with the slogan "All mummy wanted was a back rub" on its front. It has sparked fierce debate on the popular mumsnet website, where people have said that, if mummy didn't want sex, then the baby must be a product of rape. Read more: This Morrisons...

Former public toilets on the harbourside in Mevagissey are due to go under the hammer at public auction. Cornwall Council put the ramshackle property in the fishing village up for sale with a freehold guide price of £25,000 to £50,000.The loos in The Cliff are among the lots listed for sale by the regional land and property auctioneers Clive Emson in July and are said to be ripe for redevelopment into a business or home.Read more: Crime in Your Town: The Truro streets where 173...

A murder hunt was launched following a suspicious death outside a pub. A man has now been charged with manslaughter. The incident at about 12.40am on Sunday resulted in the pub being cordoned off as ambulance crews were called to concerns for the welfare of a man in his sixties.The paramedics found the man collapsed and made several attempts to resuscitate him but he was pronounced dead at the scene at The Clarence pub in Stonehouse, Plymouth, according to the Plymouth Herald.Police have now...

Producers of TV show Don't Tell the Bride are about to launch a new series and they are looking for engaged couples. Brides-to-be in Cornwall could have their dream wedding paid for... but only if they are prepared to let the groom do all the planning.The Bafta-nominated show, originally aired on the former BBC Three channel, has moved to Sky1.Read more: This garage was closed and sealed off after safety concerns raised due to fuel leakCameras will follow brave grooms as they plan every single...

Consumers on low incomes in Cornwall could see their energy bills capped under plans being considered by regulator Ofgem. Under the proposal, a price cap on energy bills could be extended to two million more households on low incomes. A limit on the cost of gas and electricity for those on pre-payment meters already saves about four million people £80 a year. The proposals come after a much wider cap in the Conservative manifesto was absent from the Queen's Speech. Read more:...

A family are facing fines of £300 after staying for just 12 minutes in a car park outside a Starbucks coffee shop on the A30. They were stung with fines for each of their three cars after pulling into the car park for a family rendezvous at the outlet at Chiverton Cross near Truro.They went to buy a coffee but discovered the shop had recently closed for the day. After saying their goodbyes to each other, the family split up and drove away, but they had stayed in the car park for 12 minutes...

You remember the salad and courgette crises earlier this year when Spain suffered from too much rain? Consumers in Cornwall now face a far worse food shortage. An olive oil and wine shortage could be on its way because this time it's too hot on the Costas. International supplies of olives and wine are under threat due to a drought ravaging Spain. And farmers in Spain have warned that if rain is not forthcoming any day soon this year's harvests could be a write-off. Read more: Suffering...

Welcome to our live coverage of all the day's biggest stories, traffic and travel from across Cornwall on Monday, June 3, 2017. We'll be looking at all the traffic from 7am until this evening, 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 Dave here until 2.30pm when I hand over to the late team led today by Hannah. ...

Residents are being urged to keep their windows and doors closed after a fire broke out at an industrial estate near St Austell last night. The blaze at the Gwindra Industrial Estate, which involved tyres, was tackled by fire crews from St Austell and Mevagissey. The firefighters used jets to prevent the fire from spreading, but smoke from the fire is affecting residents in nearby Trewoon. Read more: Crime in Your Town: These are the Truro streets where 173 crimes took place in just one...

A make or break scrutiny of Cornwall's main hospital will begin tomorrow (tues) when a team of inspectors will visit for the fifth time in two years. The Care Quality Commission will be returning to the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) just weeks after delivering a scathing report branding it wholly inadequate in two key areas.Read more: Praise for hospital staff despite damning CQC report on Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustMary Cridge, head of hospital inspections for the South West,...

A decade ago a new law changed the face of British culture forever. Gone were the smoke-filled saloon bars of pubs, restaurants and public transport where people could pretty much puff away to their heart's content. In their place, pubs in particular became clean air zones with smokers banished to kerbsides or shacks in the corner of the beer garden. Read more: Smoking could be banned inside new council houses to protect children The smoking in public places ban made it illegal to smoke...

In just one month in Truro City Centre, a total of 173 crimes were reported to police, here's what offences took place on your street. The area that stretches from Highertown to Malpas experienced a range of offences reported in April, according to the latest figures available from Devon and Cornwall Police. Read more: This is how all GP surgeries in Cornwall scored in national ratings In just 30 days, 71 antisocial behaviour offences were reported. There was also a shocking number of...

The number of nurses and midwives leaving the profession has risen 51% in just four years, with those under the age of retirement citing low pay and poor working conditions. New figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) show that for the first time in recent history more midwives and nurses are leaving the register than are joining, with homegrown UK nurses leaving in the largest numbers. Between 2016 and 2017, 20% more people left the register than joined it, and among those...

Hundreds of thousands of houses are planned for Green Belt land, but the vast majority will not be "affordable" homes, campaigners have warned. Some 425,000 homes are proposed for land released from the Green Belt under local and regional planning policies, analysis by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) suggests, up 150,000 from its last study in March 2016. The assessment suggests that more than 70% of those homes will not be expected to be "affordable" –...

Rail passengers heading in and out Cornwall are facing severe delays this evening after a signalling problem at Exeter. Many services are being terminated at Exeter or Taunton and buses are being used instead. It is understood the problem will last several hours. National Rail said a fault with the signalling system between Exeter St Davids and Barnstaple / Taunton is causing disruption to journeys between these stations. Services may be cancelled or delayed. Services between Exeter St...

A major improvement to Cornwall's road network has been confirmed by the Government which has included the dualling of the A30 between Chiverton and Carland Cross in a £6billion transport spending spree. Minister Jesse Norman has revealed that the scheme will go ahead which will remove one of the last bottlenecks on the main A30 route in Cornwall and leave only the section of single carriageway between St Erth and Marazion in Penwith. Read more: This is when the A30 roadworks at Bodmin...