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Cornwall Council is calling on the Government to give Cornish the same recognition and protection as Irish, Scottish and Welsh languages.

This month, from 14th – 21st of May 2024, The Wave Project is participating in the Big Give's Kind2Mind match-funding campaign to raise £20,000 for its surf therapy programmes that support children and young people struggling with mental health challenges.

A charity that has helped to save and change lives in Cornwall for over 50 years has received grant funds of over half a million pounds to make significant changes to its facilities.

BIT Training are on a mission to fill their latest round of funded IT and Cyber Skills for Life Bootcamps in Devon and Cornwall to help bolster the South-West region’s tech capabilities.

Proposals for a Premier Inn hotel in St Ives have been recommended for approval by planning officers, ahead of Cornwall Council’s planning committee later this month.

Lengthy waits in the Emergency Department (ED) at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro were the most common concern reported in a feedback survey published by Healthwatch Cornwall.

People in Cornwall aged 65 and over now have access to free classes aimed at helping them build strength and balance to reduce the risk of falling.

As the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) marks 200 years of lifesaving, the volunteer lifeboat crew of Port Isaac are set to take to the nation’s television screens on Tuesday 30th April, as they feature in the ninth series of popular TV show Saving Lives at Sea on BBC Two and iPlayer.

Penryn Rugby Football Club this week announced a brand new, all female, coaching team for their growing ladies section, showing their commitment to promoting and developing the female talent there is within the sport in the county. Donna Darby has been appointed as Head Coach next season and will be supported by assistant player coach Bexx O’Reilly, in the first all female senior coaching team in the Clubs history.

A club which has been at the heart of the St Ives community for decades is celebrating the support it has received this season.

About to play their penultimate league game of the season at home against Hartpury on Saturday (ko 2.30pm), the Cornish Pirates are keen to keen to put up a good performance in this fifth versus seventh RFU Championship round 21 clash.

The Eden Project is the setting for a one-off episode of ITV’s Loose Women, set to air from 12:30pm on Monday April 22, to celebrate Earth Day.