Ten days of music, sailing and fun has come to an end for another year, with thousands of residents and visitors enjoying all that Falmouth Week has to offer.With its origins in a local sailing regatta dating back at least as far back as 1837, the event has evolved into not only a major sailing competition in the region, but also an opportunity for sailors and landlubbers to enjoy the many daytime and evening attractions.It is also no longer a week, but ten days of activities, including a...

They were once the sad end to a lifetime's grinding poverty in the Victorian age, but paupers' funerals are still being carried out in Cornwall today - and it is costing the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds. According to data released under Freedom of Information laws, dozens of people have died so penniless they cannot even afford to be cremated or buried. The cost of a final send-off for these tragic souls is borne by the local authority and in the past few years alone has totted up to...

A team of coastguard rescuers have been called out to two suspicious ordinance incidents in as many days. Coastguards from Mevagissey were first alerted to a possible bomb after receiving a call from the town's harbour master that ordnance had been trawled up by local fishermen and left on the jetty in the picturesque coastal port. The incident happened at 5pm on Friday, August 11, and coastguards set up a cordon on advice from Falmouth Coastguards and the Plymouth-based bomb squad. The...

It's every driver's worst nightmare - to be driving down the motorway at night to be confronted by a car coming the wrong way along the fast lane.Now, video footage has emerged of car being driven by an elderly motorist the wrong way down the M5 for 13 minutes.Horrified motorists and passengers called 999 after witnessing the Renault Captur driving against traffic in the outside lane. Ocado delivery driver Tim Jones, 28, captured the footage as he approached Jct 20 for Clevedon while heading...

A lifeboat station team has thanked the public for its cooperation after holidaymakers and residents were asked to move en masse from a favourite south east Cornwall beach. In a statement on its Facebook page Looe Lifeboat Station said it had been important to almost evacuate East Looe beach entirely so the Devon Air Ambulance helicopter could safely land and take a casualty to hospital as quickly as possible. The incident happened on Sunday, August 5.Read more: Drama at Bude as rescuers pluck...

RNLI volunteers spent almost two hour searching for what was reported to be a rowing boat stuck on rocks.The volunteers from Fowey RNLI received a 999 call from two separate people who spotted what they thought was a small, grey, possibly metal, rowing boat on the rocks under Pencarrow Head on Saturday.A spokesman for the Fowey RNLI station said: "The in-shore RNLI lifeboat Olive Two was on scene within 15 minutes, tasked with searching from Little Lantic to Pencarrow Head."There was...

A major rescue operation was launched at Bude on Saturday evening to rescue one person from the sea and two others who were stuck nearby.Bude Coastguard Rescue Team said it was paged at 9.32pm following a report of a person stuck on the rocks at Northcott Mouth, with another person trapped having attempted a rescue. Rescue 924, the Coastguard rescue helicopter, was also scrambled, as were Bude lifeboat and police from the area.As the Coastguard team arrived at Northcott Beach, radio...

Take a break, it's good for business.Enjoying a good work life balance is what living in Cornwall is all about.But how do you take the foot of the pedal if you are your business?Enjoying a well-deserved break without stopping the cogs of your business from turning is a dilemma 88% of firms in Cornwall face.The county has one of the highest level of micro-entrepreneurships in the UK where businesses are one-man bands or employ fewer than 10 employees."When you run your own business you live...

Shocking video footage has emerged of what happens when people take illegal highs.It is now being shared online to act as a warning to others.The minute-long clip, revealed by the Mirror, showing two men in a zombie-like state after reportedly smoking Spice or Black Mamba. It was posted online by a councillor who warned the drugs are becoming a big problem.Read more: Mum left terrified by stranger who approached her son One man can be seen slumped over a bin unable to stand while another is...

LiveLines UK is recruiting psychics, tarot and angel card readers.Working from home, the successful applicants will provide readings for the company's callers all over the world.Read more: Cornwall job vacancies near youFull automated telephone training is provided and LiveLines UK states that it that offers "full 24 hour support" for all of its readers.Readers are paid up to £12.60 per hour. The job involves flexible working hours with recruits free to log on and off whenever...

The people behind Cornwall's new multi-million-pound pasty heritage centre have revealed will be on offer when the St Austell attraction is finally opened to the public next week. Cornucopia, home to the UK's very first interactive Cornish pasty heritage centre on the outskirts of St Austell, is described as a celebration of everything that makes the county's food and drink special. Read more: Could town get Costa, B&M and Marks and Spencer before Christmas? Free to enter and open...

An annual event which involves farm machinery owners showing off their ploughing, combining, thrashing and bailing and raises hundreds of pounds for charity has taken place.For the past 24 years the Carnhell Green Vintage Rally has raised more than £115,000 for three Cornish charities and this year supported Cornwall Air Ambulance and Cornwall Hospice South West. Motor enthusiasts were kept busy with hundreds of cars and motorbikes at the rally and a parade of tractors and steam...

Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Cornwall 18 years ago this week to watch the sky turn dark. The county was seen as a prime viewing spot to watch the first solar eclipse since 1927.And it wasn't just confined to the land – thousands of boats gathered around the coast to watch the amazing phenomenon and helicopters and light aircraft crammed into airspace.To cope with all eventualities the event could lead to, emergency services, 750 regular and auxiliary coastguards were on duty...

A new green-fingered scheme has been launched in Cornwall to help support men suffering with dementia.There is estimated to be more than 9,000 people in the county living with devastating disease that can cause memory loss, speech problems and even personality changes.A new initiative The Horticultural Memory Café has now been launched in St Agnes with the hope of providing a practical interactive group for men, who can often feel isolated with "limited interactions with other people...

It was a busy night for fire crews in north Cornwall who not only had to rescue a cow from a slurry pit but also had to recover a car stuck upside down in a hedge. The Bude Community Fire Station crews were called out to both incidents last night. The single-vehicle crash happened shortly before 8pm on Friday, August 11, near Holsworthy.Read more: Full-scale rescue operation launched after man climbs Crinnis Island and gets stuckA spokesman for Bude firefighters said: "On arrival a car was...

Crowds will be drawn to St Agnes from far and wide this Monday (August 14) for the return of the annual St Agnes RNLI Lifeboat Day. The ever-popular fundraising event will be held at Trevaunance Cove, giving people the chance to see the boats up close and meet the crew. Hundreds head to the beach each year to watch as RNLI volunteer teams from around Cornwall take part in demonstrations, showing off life-saving rescue techniques, procedures and even a capsize drill. Read more: Tornado-like...

Firefighters in a picturesque riverside town are growing increasingly frustrated with residents and holidaymakers parking without any care and blocking their access as they go out on life-saving jobs. Lotswithiel retained firefighters have posted pictures on their Facebook page of the latest incident they attended, but were delayed as two cars parked on either side of the road forced their fire engine to slow down to a dead crawl - reducing their response time by precious minutes. On their...

One man wanted for crimes in Manchester has been arrested on his way to Boardmasters and two others have been arrested for driving while on drugs, police chiefs in Cornwall have revealed. The arrests were made as part of Operation Allied Wolf, which aims to keep Cornwall's busiest music festival safe and as free of crime as possible. Chief Inspector Adrian Leisk said that 150 vehicles were stopped in Newquay as part of the operation. Read more; Unicorns, time travel and banging tunes for...

More than 7,000 people have turned up to hospital in Cornwall and requested help to remove a foreign object which has become wedged in a body cavity. According to new figures, in the past four years medics at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) have treated an average of four people a day who have reported something is in their body which shouldn't be there. Read next: Cornwall's A&E is set to dramatically improve its waiting times ranking but it won't help you Between 2013 and 2016...

Ten crew members on board a Fastnet yacht had to be rescued off the Isles of Scilly after their rudder broke down. The 39ft yacht was 77 nautical miles north west of the islands when it encountered troubles and its rudder failed. The RNLI all-weather lifeboat from St Mary's was called out to help at 11.41am on August 9 with conditions on scene reported by the yacht as being moderate to rough seas with force six winds.Read more: Full-scale cliff rescue launched to free man from Crinnis Island in...