A head teacher of a top performing girls' school in Truro 'dad danced' his way through a class – with the cringe-worthy moment captured on video. Truro High School head teacher Glenn Moodie swapped his normal attire of suit and tie for florescent pink and tallow sweatbands, headband and matching laces along with a hoodie to show his funkiest chicken moves, out of time footwork and swinging arms. Read more: Traders disgusted by sewage threatening business demand action from South West...

A family wants to know how this screw ended up as an added extra in their toddler's McDonald's Happy Meal. Mark and Natalie Wood decided to buy their two sons to a McDonald's meal from the Falmouth restaurant as a Bank Holiday Monday treat. Mr Wood, 34, said he took their boys down to the restaurant, ordered the Happy Meals for Oliver, 7, and Myles, 2, and took them home Rame, near Penryn, as normal. It was only when they started to unwrap the cheeseburger for Myles, who celebrates his...

A "nightmare" traffic junction on the A30 came under the personal scrutiny of Transport Secretary Chris Grayling as the general election campaign hit the road in West Cornwall. The visit by the high profile member of the cabinet followed this week's whistlestop tour of a business in Helston by Prime Minister Theresa May which provoked widespread criticism for its handling of local press. In contrast to that tightly controlled event, Mr Grayling met members of the community on the...

Police investigators are hunting a wallpaper thief following a break-in in Camborne. Witnesses are being sought to a burglary where offenders made off with valuable power tools - plus rolls of wallpaper. The raiders smashed a kitchen window to get inside the property in Park Road sometime between 6.30pm on April 26 and 10am the next day.Read more: Calls for travellers' site to close "as soon as possible" after fifth fire in four weeksItems stolen included a Bosch hammer drill, a...

The new supposedly "indestructible" £1 coins are riddled with so many flaws that punters have found themselves with coins that fall apart, break or even melt. The Royal Mint said 1.5bn £1 coins will come into circulation. Read more: The real reason Cornwall Live was banned from filming the PM's visit to CornwallHowever the new coins have been reportedly suffering a series of flaws which left one being issued without a centre.What the new £1 coin should look like....

Forget Brexit and the NHS, June's General Election should focus on the battle to reduce plastic pollution according to one Cornwall-based environmental charity. Surfers Against Sewage has been campaigning for a deposit return system to be implemented on plastic bottles, so the harmful one-use bottles no longer end up littering our beaches and polluting our oceans. The St Agnes-based charity has already gathered more than 225,000 signatures and was hoping the issue would be debated in Parliament...

Horse owners in the St Columb Major have been warned to check their animals after a pony was discovered with a wire restraint deliberately attached to its leg. The shocked owner of the pony discovered the restraint attached around its back leg on Tuesday morning. The pony was not injured. Police are now asking anyone in the community who own horses or ponies which are kept in fields to check on them. Read next: Woman in a critical condition in hospital following horror crash between St...

A charity rugby match proved a commentator's nightmare with all players on one side having the same surname. The game was in memory of Denis Stevens, who died last year after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. You can watch a video of the day above.Read next: St Ives' rekindled May Day festival proves it is going from strength-to-strengthTo raise money in his memory, his son Anthony Stevens organised the event in St Ives and anyone with the surname Stevens - with a V – was...

A dairy farmer from Hayle has signed up to take on the world's longest and toughest horse race – a derby across 1,000km of east Asian terrain. Paul Richards, 59, a dairy farmer from Hayle, will be taking part in the Mongol Derby and is raising funds for Children's Hospice South West (CHSW). Paul is a fourth-generation dairy farmer and has signed up to take on the 9th Mongol Derby across 1,000km of Mongolian steppe. Paul is the first Cornishman to ever be selected for the derby and...

The decision to close a popular supermarket and replace it with a Home Bargains store has been slammed by furious members of the community. Yesterday Cornwall Live reported how the Co-op store on Copper Terrace in Hayle will close on June 17. Staff were told a meeting yesterday that the store shuts its doors and they will lost their jobs as a result. Staff were also informed that discount retailer Home Bargains store will open on the site. Co-op today released a statement, which said:...

A woman has been arrested in connection with a stabbing in Hayle town centre yesterday afternoon.The incident left a man in his early 30s in hospital with puncture wounds after being stabbed at an address in Fore Street.Police have today confirmed that a 51-year-old woman from Hayle has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent.Read more: Disqualified van driver who was found with a large knife near Redruth is sent to prisonA police spokesperson said: "Police were...

Around 40 people are set to lose their jobs in Hayle following the news that one of the town's supermarkets is to close its doors. Staff at the Co-Op store on Copper Terrace were today told that the store will be shutting in mid-June and it is believed that discount chain Home Bargains will be moving into the building. One member of staff said: "We had a meeting with our area manager today and although we knew something was up, we expected to be told about redundancies and not that we...

Emergency services were scrambled to Hayle town centre this afternoon after a man in his early 30s was stabbed. Locals reported a major emergency services presence, with police and ambulances on the scene.It has caused disruption in the town centre and one witness said that roads in and out of the town were "chaos". Read more: Disqualified van driver who was found with a large knife near Redruth is sent to prison Live updates below:

Many concerned residents called firefighters about a large blaze that was spreading across the dunes at Mexico Towans in Hayle. The fire was up to 30 metres long and was still getting bigger when crews arrived.Fire crews from Hayle and Tolvaddon were sent to deal with the incident and believed the cause of the huge blaze was arson.Read more: Teenager was tasered after threatening police officers with chainsaw and axeMany people who saw the grass fire were worried about the safety of others...

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