One Cornish business has become a favourite with TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh.Gripsure helped create a sensory garden for a four-year-old girl with severely limited vision.Now the garden has featured on the popular ITV show Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh.Bugle-based Gripsure provided its innovative non slip decking for the garden, which was created by the Love Your Garden team for Isabelle Cooper, from Hythe in Southampton.The four-year-old has a rare degenerative eye disease called LCA...

Dreams of a new boom time for Cornwall have taken a step closer to reality after a £1million investment was unveiled to explore for a precious metal dubbed White Petroleum. The firm Cornish Lithium has revealed the substantial cash injection which will help locate the best drill sites for the metal which is a vital component in rechargeable batteries used in everything from mobile phones to cars. Chief executive and founder, Camborne School of Mines graduate Jeremy Wrathall, said it...

A new website pulling together news, data and social conversations based on your postcode has just launched the first geographical map view of realtime news as it unfolds across the UK. InYourArea.co.uk detects when any city, town, hamlet or village in Cornwall is mentioned in a news article, aggregating stories from every regional and national news website and blog in the UK, and instantly plotting it on the map.When zoomed out, the map groups stories in clusters and provides a heat-map like...

Emmets. The literal translation is ants. Red ants. Red ants that swarm everywhere, particularly when it's hot. It's an apt description for the hordes of slightly pink tourists who descend on Cornwall in August.In Devon they're grockles – possibly deriving from a clown called Grock in the early 20th century, because of their clownish and boorish behaviour and handkerchiefs on their heads, and popularised in the film The System (1964) which was made in Torquay. Don't get me wrong, I...

The thought of a child being at risk from a sex offender is every parent's worst nightmare. For most mums and dads this is a thought which they don't wish to worry about too often, but did you know that, as a parent, you are allowed to ask the police for information related to convicted sex offenders? reports the Bristol Post. Paedophiles are required to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for a good reason. This isn't about persecuting criminals after they have served their sentences –...

A motorcyclist escaped with minor injuries after an accident which saw the A388 Carkeel closed for an hour this afternoon.Police and ambulance were called to the scene just before 3pm near Ryelands and Dirty Lane to reports of a single vehicle road traffic accident.A police spokesman said: "The motorcyclist had collided with the barrier. There was a full road closure put in place as there was potential for serious injuries."However, after being assessed by paramedics, the driver was...

More than 150 vehicles were stopped as part of the huge two-day road policing operation, Allied Wolf, that took place in Cornwall during Boardmasters Festival.Three arrests were made and many fines and penalty points were given out to drivers caught breaking the law.One of the arrests saw a car stopped, whose driver was wanted by police in Manchester. The driver was arrested before he made it into the festival and sent back up to be dealt with by Manchester Police.There was a huge number of...

Controversial plans to transform Bodmin's Public Rooms into a four-screen cinema have been granted permission following months of uncertainty.The Bodmin Public Rooms were put on the market by Bodmin Town Council in December last year.After a battle between the Bodmin Public Rooms Trust (BPRT) and Merlin cinemas, the town council chose the latter's bid in a highly disputed move.In May, Craig Johns Architecture submitted a planning application to Cornwall Council on behalf of Merlin cinemas and...

Two young children were saved from a rip tide by quick thinking lifeguards on duty at the Porth Beach in Newquay.The brothers, aged five and seven, were spotted drifting out of the bathing area into a rip current by RNLI lifeguard Dave Kelly on Saturday lunchtime.One of the brothers was already being pulled under the waves by the time Mr Kelly got to him, but he managed to save both and take them to the shore.He was carrying out a patrol at the water's edge at around 1pm when he saw the two in...

A shocking number of nitrous oxide gas canisters, used to inhale as laughing gas by revellers at this year's Boardmasters festival, were seized by police as part of a huge drug crack-down. A total of 20 people were arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs at the popular festival, which saw more than 50,000 people pour through its gates over the last few days. Police said that out of the 20 arrests, three were believed to be supplying nitrous oxide and more than 1,000 canisters of the drug...

Opportunities are currently available at Parcelforce with the company recruiting delivery drivers to start across October and November.The role involves a minimum six week assignment initially, with the potential to become a permanent employee thereafter.Parcelforce says that applicants don't require any previous experience driving a light van and that all they need is a full standard driving license.Successful candidates will be delivering some of the "most important parcels of the...

Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden shocked diners at the weekend when she strolled into a restaurant in Bude.According to reports, the 46-year-old's parents live in the area which could explain why she was dining on the north Cornish coast.The former Wild at Heart actress even stopped for a picture with staff after her meal at the Widemouth Manor in Bude.She later took to TripAdvisor, to share a review of her experience.She wrote: "Fantastic evening in this chilled but equally classy...

Cornwall's new multi-million-pound food and drink visitor attraction has finally opened its doors to the public on the outskirts of St Austell.Called Cornucopia, it aims to promote everything that makes Cornwall's food and drink so special, including a look at the county's rich heritage and influence that stretches throughout the globe.Free to enter and open seven days a week, visitors can try wacky flavoured ice creams and get hands-on, in a make and bake pasty experience.Trevor Broome, general...

One of Cornwall's largest beer producers is celebrating after one of its beers was named the UK's favourite ale.Sharp's Brewery is celebrating following the news that Doom Bar has taken gold as the 'People's Favourite Cask Ale' in the Inapub's People Choice Awards 2017.This is the second year running that Doom Bar has won this award, and the country's best-selling cask ale has also received the Silver placing in the 'People's Favourite Craft Ale' category.Inapub magazine is one of the pub...

Last week it was revealed that Cornwall Council made an astonishing £15 million in parking income in just one year.The whopping total was the sum of parking tickets from council-owned meters, parking permits for businesses and residents and parking penalty charges.With such a huge amount of money taken in a short space of time, Cornwall Live asked the council exactly what the money is spent on.Reportedly, the millions taken between 2015 and 2016, which was up by six per cent from the...

Thousands of people are reportedly stuck at Newquay train station as they attempt to get home from the Boardmasters festival. Over 50,000 people headed to Newquay last weekend for Boardmasters festival – the UK's fifth biggest festival – for five days of live music and invigorating surf, skate and BMX action, But those trying to make their way home from the festival in Cornwall have found themselves stuck at Newquay train station as there are no trains leaving the...

With so many large-scale planning applications being submitted for Falmouth and Penryn over the last few years it can be difficult to keep track of exactly what is and isn't being built.And with further developments planned, and with many developers coming back time and time again and going to appeal over their plans, Cornwall Live has highlighted how the town might be transformed if these plans come to fruition.Here we look at the developments which are currently under construction and the...

Police are said to have been called in to turn drivers away from Perranporth as traffic chaos got so bad that an ambulance became trapped. Miles of queuing traffic was spotted causing long tail backs and delays as people desperately searched for a parking spot in the seaside town. When people couldn't find a space, traffic chaos broke out, with cars blocking roads waiting for spaces in the car parks or parking on double yellow lines. Police confirmed that they had received three calls about...

HM Coastguard has launched a recruitment campaign for more volunteers. So if you think you have got what it takes to be a coastguard rescuer and save lives on Cornwall cliffs, beaches, rivers and old mineshafts, then this is for you - but you'll have to be fit which means blubber couch potatoes need not apply. 1. What does the Coastguard Rescue Service do? The Coastguard Rescue Service is made up of volunteers and is part of HM Coastguard. As a coastguard rescue officer you may have...

A north Cornwall micropub is expecting a very special beer delivery in Penzance this week – arriving via a replica 18th century Cornish Lugger. The Barrel at Bude, thought to be the aforementioned part of the duchy's first ever micropub, will be receiving the supply from Britain's most South Westerly brewery, Ales of Scilly, on Thursday, August 17. Two barrels of beer were loaded on-board on Friday by the first female Cornish brewer at the Ales of Scilly, Jennie Trevithick. It is hoped...