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...

Shocking footage shows a TV producer hysterically telling a family to "get ready to die" as he attempts to perform a citizen's arrest.The incredible footage shows Fergus Beeley - who claims he worked with David Attenborough on top BBC series like Planet Earth: The Future - leaning into a parked car and aggressively shouting obscenities.The road rage attack unfolded after Simon Gale, 33, was driving along the M27 with his wife, Louise, son and mother-in-law.He was involved in a minor...

A car was completely destroyed after catching fire and going up in flames on the A30 today. The car was described as 'well-alight' when firefighters arrived. There were no reported injuries. A fire engine from Launceston was called to the scene on the A30 near the town at around 4.30pm. Firefighters wearing breathing masks moved in to extinguish the flames. They used two high-pressure water hoses to put the fire out. Read next: Police surround house in Callington over reports of armed...

A former bricklayer who worked for local firms W Trathen and E Thomas & Co Ltd in Cornwall is appealing to his former colleagues for help after a devastating asbestos-related disease diagnosis. Leslie Kevern, a father of five daughters and a grandfather of 11 grandchildren from Redruth, is suffering from lung cancer which he believes is linked to his exposure to deadly asbestos fibres during his time working in the building trade. He received his diagnosis in October 2016 following a...

No parent wants their son or daughter to be bullied, but the warning signs can be hard to spot and a child is unlikely to talk about it because they will often feel ashamed or they fear it will make it worse. According to a study revealed by Cornwall Live, up to a third of school children have at some point been too scared to go to class because of bullies. A quarter of kids revealed that in the previous year they had been subject to taunts from bullies, such as threatening texts, being...

A Sainsbury's delivery driver has been snapped apparently performing an illegal U-turn on the A30 – not far from where people have died in similar dangerous manoeuvres. The van was photographed swinging round in the road, seemingly about to cross the two solid central lines along the centre of the road. Although the name of the company cannot been seen in the photograph, the vehicle bears the same distinctive design of Sainsbury's home shopping delivery vans. The picture was posted on...

A pair of teenage RNLI lifeguards have spoken of how their training kicked in as they found themselves confronted with very real casualties off the beach. Jamie Barton, 17, patrols St Agnes and Chapel Porth beaches and is also a volunteer crewman on St Agnes Lifeboat. They were recently called to help a woman who had fallen 15 feet from a cliff, landing badly in a cave. Both crew and nearby lifeguards ran with Jamie to the casualty, where they administered first aid. After radioing for an...