The story of a teenager with 'lots of potential' being jailed for selling drugs at the Boardmasters Festival in Newquay has sparked fierce debate on social media. Benjamin Durrant, 19, of Lifton in Devon, wept as he was sent to a young offenders institute for 15 months after being caught with 94 MDMA tablets, 32 diazepam tablets and 721 milligrams of cocaine. The story was reported on Cornwall Live last week - and prompted some heated conversation on our Facebook page. Read more: Cornish...

Some 36,000 dogs in Cornwall could have come from a puppy farm, a new study has shown. According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals working with comparison website GoCompare.com, one in four dogs may come from a puppy farm. Puppy farming is often a cruel practice where dogs are bred solely for profit with little or no concern for the health and wellbeing of the puppies or their parents. Read more: Secret code words are being used to sell dangerous dogs...

A Cornish mansion, which was home to two British Prime Ministers, is set to feature on a popular TV show next month. Boconnoc House, near Lostwithiel, will be hosting Flog It, a BBC One TV series. The popular antiques programme, presented by Paul Martin, is set to visit the mansion for its valuation day. Read more: Hollywood movie Guernsey shot in Cornwall and new pictures give a sneak peek into the filmingOn Thursday, June 1, members of the public will be invited to Boconnoc House with up...

A new primary school for 500 pupils is set to be built in Newquay.The Duchy of Cornwall has submitted a detailed planning application for the new school in Nansledan, its urban extension to Newquay.The 14-classroom school will cater for around 500 children and will be operated by the Aspire Academy Trust educational charity, which already supports 21 primary school academies across Cornwall.It will occupy a 4.7 hectare site off Quintrell Road in the southern Nansledan quarter of Chapelkenrhwili,...

Here's how you can rent your house out to be used for worldwide TV, film, and photography shoots. Anyone can do it. Homeowners across the UK are being given the chance to access a wide network of creative industry professionals with whom to lease their properties. It's all being made possible thanks to the media production company, jj Media Group, who is powering the new industry platform. The process requires owners to upload photos of their house and create a listing which will advertise...

A parish council located on the north coast of Cornwall was one of the organisations targeted in a huge international cyber attack last week.The ransomware attack used Malware software to infect devices in a number of organisations, locking them out of files and demanding money.St Agnes Parish Council has now fallen victim to the same attack.Read more: The Newquay surfing computer geek who stopped the NHS cyber attackIn the UK the biggest organisation targeted was the NHS, with hospitals and GP...

West Cornwall lifesaving volunteers, who helped to recover a body from Porthleven beach, have reflected on the shout and have paid their respects. A joint operation between Devon and Cornwall Police and the Porthleven and Mullion Coastugard Rescue Teams, to recover a woman's body from the foot of the cliffs between Porthleven and Loe Bar, was assisted by Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Penlee Lifeboat on Saturday May 13. Penlee RNLI sent out both their all-weather lifeboat Ivan...

Welcome to our live coverage of all the day's biggest stories, traffic and travel from across Cornwall on Monday, May 15, 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 Gareth here until 2.30pm when I hand over to the late team led today by Charlotte. If you've seen...

A high flying Cornish stockbroker is the living proof that you don't have to go to the City and leave Cornwall to work in The City. Darryn Richards is a Redruth man through and through. Born and bred in the mining town, he still lives there with his family and remains very proud of his roots. A smiley, friendly man, Darryn is a martial arts enthusiast and a very successful stockbroker who has never worked in the financial capital of the world and its famed City district. Read more:...

Emergency services were scrambled to Falmouth earlier today following a serious collision that one person taken to hospital by air ambulance.Two vehicles crashed on Bickland Water Road just before 4.30pm this afternoon (Sunday May 12).The incident left four people injured with one having to be cut free from vehicle wreckage and flown to hospital.Read more: This woman lost her husband on the Tamar Bridge this week and she has a message for us allPolice, the fire service and Cornwall Air Ambulance...

When you mention mining in Cornwall, the first thing people think of is tin, but there is one other mining history that has been all but forgotten about. Around 100 years ago, across the county, tons of radioactive uranium was being mined. The rare metal discovered in pitchblende that was being dug from tin and iron mines, was even used by Marie Curie her world-changing discovery of radium – more on that below. Read more: Photography helped grieving dad cope with death of...

All emergency services are currently at the scene of an accident in Falmouth. A busy Falmouth road has been closed in both directions following an incident. Police confirmed they were currently on the scene of an accident on Bickland Water Road near Falmouth Business Park. Read more: The Newquay surfing computer geek who stopped the NHS cyber attacks The Cornwall Air Ambulance and fire services were also at the scene. The road was closed at around 4.30pm today, Sunday May 14, in both...

Mental Health Awareness Week might be coming to a close, but this May thousands of young people will be asking for help as they struggle with stress, anxiety and even depression bought on by exams.The NSPCC, which runs Childline helpline, said that it had helped a total of 3,135 young people who struggled cope with exam stress in 2016/2017.Read more: This woman lost her husband on the Tamar Bridge this week and she has a message for us allThe charity said that the worry of trying to pass SATs,...

Long known as a place where teenagers booze and rowdy stag and hen parties flock, Newquay has battled with its reputation as a raucous and rundown seaside resort. But now the local community, together with a group of inspired young people who have moved to the town from afar, have taken drastic action to change that image and help Newquay to reinvent itself. Crowdfunder, the Newquay Community Orchard, the Newquay Forest School and Fifteen Cornwall are just some of the social enterprises...

An increasing number of Brits are choosing Cornwall for their holidays rather than flying abroad to far flung sun-kissed locations, tourism figures have shown. According to tourism and even property experts, the popularity of staycations is on the rise. While the easyJet and Ryanair generation booked its cheap package holidays to Spain, Portugal or Greece, it is beginning to change. Read more: This is where you can enjoy the Red Arrows in Cornwall this summer Jon Clyne, a director at...

We want to know the answers to the burning questions - how you feel about your neighbourhood, how life is changing here, how good your local services are, how happy or lonely or wealthy you feel. The results should make fascinating reading, not only because they will provide a snapshot of life in Cornwall in 2017, but because they will also show how it varies depending where in the Duchy you live, how old you are, your gender and how you vote. We also want to find out what issues matter most...

A man was arrested in Newquay last night for possessing class A drug Cocaine.CCTV camera operators, Newquay Police force and the Special Constabulary all worked together on the arrest, to help "get drugs off the streets".The arrest saw a large group of people searched after they were spotted acting suspiciously on CCTV.Read more: The Newquay surfing computer geek who stopped the NHS cyber attackCamera operators put in a call to the police last night, Saturday May 13, and the group were...

With just under four weeks to go before the General Election there is still everything to play for as an exclusive Cornwall Live poll reveals up to a third of voters remain undecided. In a comprehensive analysis of local voting intentions, we can reveal that Labour could be on the cusp of an astonishing comeback to the Cornish political scene and that the Lib Dems are neck and neck with the Tories in some surprising places. Health, education and Brexit are revealed to be some of the key...

When Sally Woods was asked what she wanted for her 40th birthday, she replied: "My dad". This was going to prove difficult as her father Roger Johns had passed away a year before with motor neurone disease. Instead her family organised a charity fundraiser in his memory which raised more than £6,000. Sally described Roger as a kind man and a stalwart of the local community in Helston where he lived his life. He grew up in Porthleven and later moved to Helston where he worked...

With the summer nearly upon us and the prospect of heat wave after heat wave on the horizon and even talks of a hosepipe ban as Cornwall is set to bask in unlimited sunshine this summer, we look at the best places to grab an ice cream. There are hundreds upon hundreds of places in Cornwall where you can order an ice cream. We look at the top 13 according to the review website TripAdvisor and how you, the customers, rated these places. According to the site, Moomaid of Zennor in St Ives...