A "serious incident" off the Cornish coast has left three people in hospital last night. A group of five people were caught in a rip tide at Crantock beach, near Newquay, just before 7.30pm. As local surfers rushed to help, the emergency services were called by an onlooker. Two lifeboats, the local Coastguard rescue team and a helicopter were called into action, along with police and paramedics. Read Next: Sailors plucked to safety after yacht sinks during Falmouth Week Two...

Elvis Presley is dead – the sobering headline on the mock newspaper front page runs alongside one of the worst photos I've ever seen of the King of Rock and Roll.It was 40 years ago today - August 16, 1977.When Robert 'Elvis' Wilkinson offered to show me the memorabilia inside his self-built Elvis-themed garden bar, I wasn't expecting something quite so morbid.He catches me looking concerned at the Daily Mirror poster, gives me a big grin and says "or is he?"Born in Hertfordshire...

Three sailors were plucked to safety after their yacht began sinking while racing during Falmouth Week.A race committee boat managed to pick up the trio from the water.They were taking part in the Carrick Fleet race on board an 18ft boat Myrtle on the final day of competition in Carrick Roads at the weekend when the incident happened near Governor Buoy.A spokesman for Falmouth RNLI said: "A yacht did sink whilst racing on Saturday. The three occupants were picked up by the Ionthe, the race...

Cornwall Live is launching a survey to find out people's experiences of mental health.The research, which has the support of Mind the mental health charity, aims to shine a light on what people in Cornwall are experiencing.National statistics say approximately one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year.Mind states that while the overall number of people with mental health problems has not changed significantly in recent years, worries about things like money,...

Residents of Par were furious last week to learn that Wainhomes had been successful in its application to build 103 new homes in the village. The community battled the application for months, claiming that the infant school and GP surgery were already struggling with the amount of people. Wainhomes was seeking permission to build approximately 103 dwellings, an extension to the parking for the Kingdom Hall, allotments, school drop-off facilities, footpath/cyclepath connection and associated...

Simon Parker considers whether it is either ethical or efficient to expect midwives, social workers and others in vital services to routinely work for nothing. If you are reading this in your lunch-time, consider yourself lucky. Why? Because across the region, more and more employees are coming in to work early, skipping tea breaks and dinner breaks, and leaving late, in order to prop up our essential services. Austerity, involving government cuts to frontline services, has resulted in nurses,...

The owners of a distinctive looking cat from Egloskerry have appealed for information in an attempt to find their pet. Alfie the cat has been missing from his home just outside of Launceston since Thursday (August 10). His owners have appealed for information and are desperate to get him home, particularly because Alfie is on a special prescription diet and can become unwell without it. Residents of Launceston have been sharing posts in an attempt to reunite Alfie with his owners. Read...

Well over 100 family members and friends have gathered this afternoon to bid a musical farewell to popular local photographer Keith Richards, who died last month.The funeral service celebrating the life of former West Briton and Helston Packet snapper Keith was held at Treswithian Downs Crematorium in Camborne at midday and it was a case of standing room only, a testimony to Keith's immense popularity in Helston and his home village of Porkellis.Keith, who suffered from Crohn's Disease from a...

The owner of a picturesque harbourside on the Lizard peninsula has been given a month to file the right highways application or remove his 'illegal' double yellow lines.Cornwall Council has written to the Harbour and Dock Company, owned by businessman Trevor Osborne asking him to follow the due process.It comes as the company has been in legal breach under Section 132 of the Highways Act 1980 over the painting of double-yellow lines in the centre of Porthleven last month.The move angered...

Hundreds of kilos of deadly ghost nets have been removed from a shipwreck off the coast of Cornwall. The James Eagan Layne sank in Whitsand Bay, South East Cornwall, during the Second World War. In the decades since, she had become wreathed in nets lost from fishing boats. They are called "ghost nets" because they carry on their silent killing of marine life and are a hazard for divers. Now divers have removed more than 100kg of deadly monofilament "ghost net" from...

A potentially lethal Japanese "superbug" which medics have said is "difficult to control" has not moved west to infect Cornish hospitals. A spokeswoman for the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust (RCHT) confirmed there had been no cases of the Candida auris (C. auris) which is at the centre of major outbreaks elsewhere in the country. A number of NHS trusts have been ordered to carry out deep cleans of all affected areas after more than 200 patients were found to be infected or...

Launceston is due to see the return of bargain brand Peacocks just a few doors away from where the company had its former store.Peacocks had to cut more than 3,000 jobs in 2012, after the fashion chain was sold out of administration.A deal with Edinburgh Woollen Mill saved 388 shops and more than 6,000 jobs but administrators from KPMG said it had been forced to close 224 stores with immediate effect, leading to 3,100 redundancies.The units closed included Launceston's Hurdon Road store.A...

This is the staggering mess left behind at this year's Boardmasters as thousands of revellers head home from the music festival at Newquay.Hundreds of tents were left strewn across the fields by festival goers after the massive event at the weekend, which attracted thousands of people.The clean-up operation has already begun but many people have expressed fury on social media, branding it "absolutely disgusting".One person posted photos to Feeding Penzance Homeless Facebook page...

The volunteer crews who save lives on beaches and around the coastline in Cornwall will be featured on a new BBC TV series. Saving Lives at Sea showcases the lifesaving work of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and will be broadcast tomorrow at 8pm on BBC Two. Read next: Brothers aged 5 and 7 rescued from rip tide by lifeguard at Porth Beach, Newquay The 12-part documentary series features real rescues carried out by the charity's lifeboat crews and lifeguards around the UK and...

A Lidl representative has revealed what customers can expect to see when the bargain supermarket chain opens its new St Austell store later this week.After months of anticipation, the new supermarket at Daniels Lane will replace the town's current 16-year-old East Hill store, when it opens on Thursday (August 17).A spokesman for Lidl said previously that the existing store was no longer sufficient and staff have been redeployed to the new, much larger, supermarket just outside St Austell town...

Police were called to the scene of a crash in Penzance this morning where one motorist fled the scene. The collision is said to have taken place this morning near GMO cars in Jelbert Way, and an investigation is still ongoing. "Officers were notified just after 9am to reports of a two-car road traffic collision at Penzance", said a spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police. Read more: This Cornish micropub has discovered a unique way of getting beer from the Isles of...

A train has derailed near London as rail passengers are being urged to not travel to or from Waterloo all day, with a signal fault causing additional problems.There was a "low speed, partial derailment" on a South West Trains service following a collision with a freight train this morning. The London Ambulance Service was called and paramedics "checked over" three patients following the derailment. We checked over three patients following the train derailment at...

Rumours of a glimpse of summer coming to Cornwall this weekend may have been dashed by the news that Hurricane Gert has formed in the Atlantic.The weather system, originally designated as a tropical storm, was upgraded overnight - and could spell more wet and windy weather for the UK.Forecasters had been suggesting a warm, dry and sunny weekend, but now those predictions are being revised.Latest updates from the US have revealed that Gert had strengthened to become the second hurricane of the...

Kathryn Price would have been 27 in February, but she never even got to celebrate her 16th birthday or go to prom after a horror crash on Penryn bypass in 2006.For her mum Alicia Watt the effects of that day will be forever etched on her mind and even 11 years on she still marks the occasion with a memorial balloon launch at her daughter's graveside.She said she gets "enormous comfort" from the fact that so many people still attend the memorial at Budock Church."Every year I get...

Welcome to our live coverage of all the day's biggest stories, traffic and travel from across Cornwall on Tuesday, August 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 Ginette. If you've seen...