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- Two men charged with immigration offences following Mylor powerboat arrival 5 October 2026
- Duo involved in Truro “large knife” incident released on bail 4 October 2026
- Is it time to re-invent Truro Gaol? 4 October 2026
- Magna Carta victory for Truro Crown Court jury campaigners 4 October 2026
- Meltdown in Mylor: was there something about that Brittany “Memorandum of Understanding” that Cornwall failed to understand? 1 October 2026
- “Lock them up!” says North Cornwall MP, as South West Water fined almost £8 million after six years of sewage pollution 29 September 2026
- Ten arrested after powerboat lands migrants at Mylor harbour 28 September 2026
- Devon and Cornwall police are a “cause of concern” says His Majesty’s Inspectorate 25 September 2026
- UXB: Falmouth told to prepare for mass evacuation 22 September 2026
- Falmouth UXB: it might be more than 80-years-old, but making it safe is not something that can be rushed 22 September 2026
- UXB: homes evacuated and roads closed as Falmouth remembers D-Day – but not in a good way 22 September 2026
- CCTV footage shows how racist vandals attacked Cornwall’s only mosque 21 September 2026
- Cornwall rallies to support Islamic Community Centre damaged by racially-aggravated vandalism 21 September 2026
- Police investigate racist attack on Cornwall’s only mosque 20 September 2026
- French authorities to lead investigation into loss of fishing boat off Cornwall’s coast 7 September 2026
- Search called off as two French sailors feared drowned 31 August 2026
- Truro fast food boss charged with GBH 26 August 2026
- Hundreds caught up in serious police incident in Truro centre 25 August 2026
- Minority Report: as Live Facial Recognition technology is deployed in Cornwall for the first time, civil liberties group warns you can now be arrested for looking a bit funny 6 August 2026
- Newquay drownings: holidaymakers had been fishing 5 August 2026
- Hands off my police force, says Devon and Cornwall PCC 4 August 2026
- Newquay braced for this year’s Boardmasters’ siege 2 August 2026
- James Desborough guilty of Sticker woods murders 29 July 2026
- Two drown at Fistral beach, Newquay 28 July 2026
- Hot Fuzz: we could do with a silly season story next month 27 July 2026
- Gardner-gate: did Cornwall Council deliberately waste police time or conspire to pervert the course of justice? 24 July 2026
- Gardner-gate: while one part of Cornwall Council was making a formal complaint to the police, another part of the empire was negotiating a secret payoff to the councillor whose failure to declare an interest was followed by a £70,000 a year job at the spaceport 23 July 2026
- Cornwall burning 21 July 2026
- Coke-snorting maths teacher banned 16 July 2026
- Ann Widdecombe’s home and antiques’ collection were shown on TV just five days before she was killed 13 July 2026
- Police investigate murder of Ann Widdicombe, one of Cornwall’s last voices in Europe 11 July 2026
- Sticker “bodies in the woods” murder trial gets underway 24 June 2026
- Crowan parish council calls for crackdown on illegal industrial waste tip “supersite” 9 June 2026
- Anti-terror cops continue investigation in South East Cornwall 7 June 2026
- Devon and Cornwall’s “inadequate” police force “requires improvement,” says His Majesty’s Inspectorate 3 June 2026
- A30 crash claims the life of another child 3 June 2026
- Man charged with rape and murder of woman in her 80s 1 June 2026
- Jailed surgeon who froze his own legs struck off the medical register 31 May 2026
- Penzance man arrested as police launch murder probe near Helston 31 May 2026
- “A particularly nasty case” – dairy farmer banned from keeping livestock after admitting cruelty 28 May 2026
- Defend our juries protest at Truro Crown Court 19 May 2026
- New law demanding “duty of candour” could change the way decisions are made at Cornwall Council 14 May 2026
- Police investigate woman’s death in woods near Camborne 4 May 2026
- We didn’t start the fire – but somebody did: council consults about possible beach blaze ban 28 April 2026
- New call for Cornwall to have its own police force 1 April 2026
- Who should supervise Cornwall’s police? 12 March 2026
- All are equal, but some are more equal than others 9 March 2026
- “Nothing to say about Boardmasters’ links to Israel’s genocide, but we’re a bit worried about the noise” 23 February 2026
- Local news headline special: Former RNAS Culdrose helicopter pilot arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office 19 February 2026
- So, is it now OK to stage a peaceful anti-genocide protest on the steps of Truro Cathedral? Er, we’ll get back to you on that 15 February 2026
- Follow the money: how the long reach of Peter Mandelson’s corruption found its way to the heart of Cornwall’s health service 5 February 2026
- Bomb disposal squad deals with WW2 shell at Portreath 4 February 2026
- Missing man: body found in the sea at Bude 2 February 2026
- Daylight robbery? Devon and Cornwall police launch 5.2% smash-and-grab raid on council taxpayers 31 January 2026
- Kernow Cops: give us back our own police force, urge councillors 27 January 2026
- Hot fuzz: here comes the government plan for a new regional police force, based in Bristol 25 January 2026
- If you go down to the woods today watch out for industrial-scale fly-tipping 23 January 2026
- Devonwall: plan to merge Devon and Cornwall police with neighbours to be unveiled next week – but who will then be in charge? 23 January 2026
- Boardmasters: only three weeks left to tell County Hall what you think about noise, traffic chaos and genocide 19 January 2026
- Cornwall Council in contempt, as Freedom of Information judge blasts County Hall for “illogical and irrational…cavalier, irresponsible and unreasonable” behaviour and a “litany of failings” 19 January 2026
- Storm Goretti: man found dead after tree fell on caravan 10 January 2026
- County Hall failed councillor over death threats 7 January 2026
- No Devonwall council – but perhaps a super-regional police force, overseen by a Wessex mayor? 6 January 2026
- Crime boss quits Tories 5 January 2026
- A directly-elected mayor for Devon and Cornwall: is this the closest we’ll be allowed to get to expressing a point of view? 1 January 2026
- 2026? Far too difficult to make predictions for the whole year, but there’s plenty going on in just the next three months 1 January 2026
- Ban trail hunting, says rural Britain 30 December 2025
- Graffiti attacks across South East Cornwall 26 December 2025
- A Police and Crime Board or a directly-elected mayor? All should become clear in the months ahead 23 December 2025
- Will this year’s Boxing Day hunts be the last? 21 December 2025
- Falmouth’s trees were chopped down without the approval of council’s top lawyer 17 December 2025
- Councillors revoke taxi licences for Cornwall’s high-speed coked-up cabbies 9 December 2025
- Hot Fuzz: police admit they might have over-reacted in Torpoint 9 December 2025
- A very peculiar practice: after this morning’s dawn raid in Falmouth, is any tree in Cornwall safe? 8 December 2025
- Cormac’s chainsaws, aided by private security firm, launch dawn raid to fell Falmouth’s trees 8 December 2025
- We’ve made mistakes, but we’re still going to chop down your trees, council tells Falmouth 4 December 2025
- 20 months later, justice catches up with fly-tipper 2 December 2025
- Falmouth’s trees: we might comply with the law in future, says council, but not yet… 26 November 2025
- The axeman cometh: County Hall again has Falmouth’s trees in its sights 24 November 2025
- Your money or your life? Few support A38 speed camera petition complaining of highway robbery 24 November 2025
- Devon and Cornwall police try to defend inconsistent handling of Truro’s peaceful anti-genocide protestors 19 November 2025
- Peaceful protest against genocide brings seven arrests at Truro Cathedral 18 November 2025
- Lift The Ban protest planned at Truro Cathedral 17 November 2025
- Arson suspected cause of barn fire 17 November 2025
- Police say cause of Falmouth pub fire “suspicious” 13 November 2025
- Tanker accident blocks roundabout near Devoran 14 October 2025
- Fire-damaged Newquay hotel destroyed by second blaze 12 October 2025
- Cornwall divides over mandatory digital ID cards 5 October 2025
- No arrests in Truro, as police change tactics to deal with peaceful anti-genocide protestors 5 October 2025
- Too much gunpowder, no sign of treason but definitely not enough plot: remember, remember, the fifth of November is now the sixth of November in Truro 1 October 2025
- Cornwall’s 20 mph speed limits have made the roads much safer 30 September 2025
- Two die in Lostwithiel car crash 22 September 2025
- Former Methodist leader denies sex charges 16 September 2025
- Missing the point: there are plenty of reasons to ban Boardmasters, but Bob Vylan isn’t one of them 11 September 2025
- At least another 14 local voters labelled “terrorists” following MPs’ vote 10 September 2025
- Cornwall’s former Methodist leader faces sex charges 4 September 2025
- Far-Right vandals attack Cornish towns 4 September 2025
- Bodmin war memorial restored after graffiti attack by far-Right vandals 2 September 2025
- Bodmin war memorial defaced by anti-immigrant “red flag” paint 1 September 2025
- Saltash pensioners charged with terrorism after their MP voted to outlaw Palestine Action 27 August 2025
- Daniel Lynch jailed for life for murdering his brother 27 August 2025
- Rebels without a cause: the inconvenient facts getting in the way of Cornwall’s immigrant-bashers 23 August 2025
- A38: slow down now, or risk a fine 20 August 2025
- EXCLUSIVE: beyond top secret – County Hall refuses to disclose any evidence to support its felling of protected trees 17 August 2025
- Blessed Madonna reveals she quit Boardmasters rather than accept Palestine Action gagging clause in performance contract 13 August 2025
- At least six Cornwall residents among those arrested in London for “terrorism” 13 August 2025
- If you go down to the woods today you’d better go in disguise: Sticker murder inquiry continues to rely on the Feds as police prepare for January trial 11 August 2025
- “Illegal migrant” arrests at Cornish leisure complex 8 August 2025
- Slow down for dolphins 6 August 2025
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear: will Devon and Cornwall police again arrest people for “terrorism” if they stage another peaceful protest? 5 August 2025
- Boardmasters: is it safe? 4 August 2025
- Bringing it all back home: pro-Palestine protestors ejected from religious festival at Wadebridge 4 August 2025
- “I was only trying to be helpful” – Police and Crime Commissioner apologises for murder probe blunder 27 July 2025
- Boardmasters: this ain’t rock’n’roll, this is genocide 27 July 2025
- Under siege: the Boardmasters “traffic management plan” which means it is probably worth giving Newquay a miss next month 26 July 2025
- After two years suspended on full pay, Devon and Cornwall’s top cop calls it a day 24 July 2025
- After police arrest peaceful protestors on cathedral steps, will any of Cornwall’s MPs be a “terrorist” on 9th August? 20 July 2025
- Boardmasters: there ain’t no stopping us now, despite licence review 17 July 2025
- Falmouth’s trees again facing the axe, as Lib Dems pick up where the Tories left off 15 July 2025
- Tywardreath village shop: local “rescue” scheme heads for Truro Crown Court trial 13 July 2025
- GARDNER-GATE EXCLUSIVE: police say there was no misconduct in public office 7 July 2025
- In the dock: Cornwall’s MPs feel the heat as constituents complain about “terrorists” label 6 July 2025
- Man, 39, arrested on suspicion of murder at Sticker 3 July 2025
- Does your MP think you are a terrorist? Yes and no 3 July 2025
- Bob Vylan’s scheduled performance at Boardmasters has Reform claiming it “welcomes all to our shores” – while calling for the musician to be banned 2 July 2025
- Man, 65, charged with murder of 93-year-old woman in Bude 2 July 2025
- The most dangerous man on the planet is coming to Cornwall 30 June 2025
- Man arrested on suspicion of murder at Bude 30 June 2025
- A38 fatal accident: car may have been stolen 24 June 2025
- Tamar Bridge car crash at toll barrier caused delays 24 June 2025
- All six of Cornwall’s MPs backed Assisted Dying Bill 20 June 2025
- From broken Barnet to crippled Cornwall: how will Kate now mark her own homework? 19 June 2025
- Cormac’s chainsaws: what next for Falmouth’s trees? 18 June 2025
- Another Gardner-gate EXCLUSIVE: former spaceport supremo resigned on the eve of council elections, as Corserv now says the £70,000 “Head of Future Air and Space” role is under review 11 June 2025
- Anti-social behaviour in Carlyon Bay 10 June 2025
- Fish dock confrontation over refusal to allow inspection 10 June 2025
- Gardner-gate EXCLUSIVE: Corserv board minutes show why Cornwall Council’s cabinet needs to get an urgent grip to prevent more scandals 9 June 2025
- Voting works: eco-democracy saves Falmouth’s trees 9 June 2025
- Truro police handcuffed black man who called for help – he died 20 minutes later 8 June 2025
- What Samantha did next: woman at the centre of “Gardner-gate” scandal is now running a tiny, Saudi-backed airfield in Kent 8 June 2025
- “Holocaust” councillor reported to police 7 June 2025
- “Holocaust” parish councillor refuses to resign despite censure 6 June 2025
- Gardner-gate: now even the council admits that former cabinet member broke the rules over spaceport job scandal 3 June 2025
- Crime and punishment: South West Water facing four criminal investigations 2 June 2025
- “Farmer Pete” accused of bringing parish council into disrepute following holocaust distortion rant 30 May 2025
- Minority Report: police say they plan to prevent Boardmasters’crimes before they happen 28 May 2025
- Gardner-gate: no news is still news 26 May 2025
- Travellers back on Truro park-and-ride site 14 May 2025
- Another Gardner-gate EXCLUSIVE: Phil Mason says he did not know about spaceport job application 14 May 2025
- Gardner-gate: there are still questions to answer, says MP 14 May 2025
- Truro’s deputy mayor banned from cathedral due to ‘safeguarding’ concerns 12 May 2025
- Fire destroys homes near Launceston 12 May 2025
- Gardner-gate: police inquiry into spaceport job scandal continues 4 May 2025
- Emma Carlyon 1963-2025 26 April 2025
- The blackboard jungle: what did you do at school today? 22 April 2025
- Alison Hernandez “delighted” that chief constable will not be prosecuted 21 April 2025
- Travellers’ vehicles tear up youngsters’ football pitch 21 April 2025
- Gardner-gate: it’s official – Cornwall Council is a national joke 17 April 2025
- Cornwall Council elections: is there more to this Truro candidate than meets the eye? 17 April 2025
- Gardner-gate: Corserv boss should resign, says MP 15 April 2025
- Gardner-gate: don’t talk about spaceport job scandal, County Hall officials tell councillors 14 April 2025
- EXCLUSIVE: the role played by Cornwall Council in Corserv’s astonishing cock-up over Gardner-gate spaceport job scandal 13 April 2025
- Gardner-gate: councillors have a duty to challenge the abuse of power which corrodes trust in local government 11 April 2025
- Spaceport job scandal: Louis Gardner is still being paid as a councillor and is still refusing to declare an interest 11 April 2025
- ANOTHER GARDNER-GATE EXCLUSIVE: FOI answers reveal shocking new details about Cornwall Council’s timeline of shame in spaceport job scandal 11 April 2025
- GARDNER-GATE EXCLUSIVE: police are investigating spaceport job scandal 10 April 2025
- Wildlife crime: counting the cost of Cornwall’s wildfires 7 April 2025
- Another fire on Bodmin Moor 7 April 2025
- Wildfires worse than 2022, say fire chiefs 6 April 2025
- Cornwall and Tower Hamlets: how the spaceport appointment of its own sponsoring councillor could lead to direct government takeover of County Hall 3 April 2025
- It’s back: the Falmouth chainsaw massacre 25 March 2025
- Arsonists kill wildlife on nature reserve 23 March 2025
- Probe into HMS Raleigh death 20 March 2025
- Arsonist sets another gorse fire in west Cornwall 17 March 2025
- Hello, hello, hello – would you mind putting that chainsaw away? Police in Falmouth act to stop the chop and save the trees 17 March 2025
- Devon and Cornwall chief constable approaching second anniversary of his suspension: what is going on in Northern Ireland? 11 March 2025
- Gorse blaze was started deliberately, say firefighters 6 March 2025
- Speed cameras “solution” to A38 death toll unlikely to please safety campaigners 3 March 2025
- Farage has been and gone but the war of words continues 27 February 2025
- Truro Cathedral cleric suspended 26 February 2025
- Safer Cornwall: trying to keep an eye on local terrorists, among other things 24 February 2025
- Reform UK: Carn Brea leisure centre could be busier than usual this evening 24 February 2025
- As Germany prepares to turn the clock back 90 years, Farage heads for Cornwall portraying himself as a thoroughly modern European 21 February 2025
- Throwing milkshakes is assault 17 February 2025
- Man found dead in County Hall “Bunkabin” 13 February 2025
- There will be no mayoral election in Cornwall next year, as government consigns South West Peninsula to the “slow lane” 5 February 2025
- Care home told to make “rapid and widespread improvements” following inspection prompted by woman’s death 31 January 2025
- Devon and Cornwall’s deputy police and crime commissioner quits after just five months 7 January 2025
- Let’s use prisoners to build homes in Cornwall, says police and crime boss 5 January 2025
- County Hall responds to the government’s Devolution White Paper: Cornwall has to be in it to win it 4 January 2025
- EXCLUSIVE: Use second homes council tax “windfall” to pay for more bobbies on the beat, says police chief 31 December 2024
- Another year of trail hunting? Government under pressure to deliver manifesto promise 27 December 2024
- Police release two women as Helston “murder” inquiry continues 22 December 2024
- As the 2003 Perch garage murders pose new questions for Devon and Cornwall police, defence lawyers call for a ban on prison informants 18 December 2024
- Perch garage murders: 21 years later, Robert and Lee Firkins finally declared “not guilty” and set to be released from prison 17 December 2024
- Devon and Cornwall is a single region and needs a mayor, says government, as White Paper ignores County Hall’s bid for go-it-alone nationhood 16 December 2024
- Devon and Cornwall get third chief constable in 18 months 15 December 2024
- Coming soon, maybe: another temporary top cop 10 December 2024
- Who’s next? Devon Cornwall police, without a chief constable for 18 months, have now lost their “acting” chief constable because of alleged “breaches of professional standards” 28 November 2024
- Still no news on the future of Devon and Cornwall police chief 26 November 2024
- Brace, brace, brace: Devolution White Paper to be published before Christmas 26 November 2024
- Illogan murder victim named 17 November 2024
- Don’t bring your tractors, police tell farmers planning to protest against inheritance tax change 14 November 2024
- Ginsters boss fined £1.28 million for accident which killed bakery worker 13 November 2024
- Truro Crown Court to work a four-day week 11 November 2024
- A30 accident blackspot junction to stay closed following fatal collision 8 November 2024
- Teenager arrested after fatal car crash near St Tudy 3 November 2024
- Remember the one about the £1 million pub that some people think should be knocked down? 29 October 2024
- Baby dies from injuries sustained in Mullion school bus crash 20 October 2024
- Helston woman killed in car crash 16 October 2024
- Police release more information about Mullion school bus crash 15 October 2024
- Two people badly injured in Mullion school bus crash 14 October 2024
- A&P Falmouth fined £750,000 for “catastrophic” crane collapse which put 250 workers at risk 11 October 2024
- Missing woman: body found 11 October 2024
- Penryn woman bailed following soup attack on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” 2 October 2024
- Penryn woman charged with criminal damage after soup attack on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting 29 September 2024
- Is Big Sister watching you? County Hall told to make sure that monitoring social media for “covert human intelligence surveillance” does not break the law 27 September 2024
- Newquay cocaine bust: four men remanded in custody 17 September 2024
- Four held after cocaine seized off Cornish coast 15 September 2024
- Woman held on suspicion of attempted murder at Wadebridge 12 September 2024
- “Gross misconduct” of two police officers left vulnerable man in the rain overnight, says IOPC. The man later died 7 September 2024
- Wallaby dies in traffic accident near St Columb 24 August 2024
- Rave on: the free “access all areas” invitations that help County Hall appreciate Boardmasters 24 August 2024
- Police called to help eject Bodmin Town Council clerk 21 August 2024
- Pop-up “housing pods” again the focus of anti-social behaviour complaints 21 August 2024
- Woman arrested in connection with Threemilestone house fire 15 August 2024
- “We need action,” says councillor, as even County Hall staff are afraid of walking to their car park because of anti-social behaviour 15 August 2024
- Coming down from Boardmasters: Cornwall Council is finally forced to ask the questions it would prefer not to ask 13 August 2024
- EXCLUSIVE: Cornwall told to house 500 asylum-seekers 12 August 2024
- Accident closed A30 over Bodmin Moor 12 August 2024
- Penzance rejects the far-Right, as police continue to arrest those responsible for anti-immigrant violence 11 August 2024
- Performance cancelled as “terrifying” crowd surge causes injuries at Boardmasters 10 August 2024
- First of the Plymouth rioters is jailed 8 August 2024
- Boardmasters: if this was the plan, it isn’t working, say residents 8 August 2024
- Four admit violent disorder in Plymouth 7 August 2024
- Plymouth riot: six to appear in court today 7 August 2024
- Do you have photos or video which might help put the Nazis behind bars? 6 August 2024
- The night the Nazis came to Plymouth 6 August 2024
- We’re ready for you, police tell protestors, as bus companies aim to avoid Plymouth centre 5 August 2024
- “I would ask that everyone stays at home” says council boss, as far-Right target Plymouth this evening 5 August 2024
- Motorcyclist dies in collision with tractor 31 July 2024
- A battle for the ages: government identifies winners and losers, as spending audit suggests October budget will mean changes for Cornwall 30 July 2024
- This is a case for the Yard: retired top cop called in to help sort out Devon and Cornwall police 21 July 2024
- We need more cash to deal with summer ASB, says Devon and Cornwall crime boss 14 July 2024
- Whodunnit? Devon and Cornwall police still don’t really “get” crime, says King’s Inspectorate 11 July 2024
- Don’t look now: Barcelona protestors squirt water pistols and shout “tourists go home” 8 July 2024
- Newquay barn blaze: arson suspected 4 July 2024
- Policing in the 21st century: Devon and Cornwall record two hate crimes against vegans 18 June 2024
- Police release man pending investigation into woman’s death 18 June 2024
- General Election 2024: Reform UK candidate assaulted in Falmouth 16 June 2024
