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  • Friends pray for 'mickie'

    FRIENDS of schoolgirl Michaela Curtis remembered the 14-year-old in their prayers when they return to Truro School for the first day of term. Tributes have been paid to the "wonderful" teenager, known to her friends as Mickie, who died suddenly following

  • SPORTS COMPLEX PLAN REVEALED

    AN ambitious multi-million-pound scheme to build a sports complex and housing development on the outskirts of Troon has been put before councillors. Troon Football Club is looking to move from its current site at Croft Common and build a new complex on

  • FRIENDS PRAISED FOR RESCUE BID

    Three friends from the Lizard have been officially thanked by coastguards for their "professional" efforts to assist a holidaymaker who plunged 200ft to his death at Kynance Cove. Tourist Richard Wenlock, 22, from Orpington in Kent, had climbed to the

  • National trophy for young ones

    SOMERSET Under 19s stormed to a resounding victory over Hampshire at the Nevil Road Ground in Bristol in the final of the ECB 2 day competition - and with a day to spare. After winning the toss and batting first Hampshire were bowled out for 125, with

  • Why drilling was such sweet music

    PEOPLE in Woolston Moor celebrated the start of a scheme that will end 25 years of flooding misery. A £150,00 project has got under way to construct a 900mm culvert to take flood waters away from the east to the west side of the hamlet. The work, scheduled

  • Hate calls sparked by hunting

    THE war of words in the hunting dispute deepened this week after anti-hunt campaigners claimed they were targeted by threatening and abusive phone calls. At least one messages directed at the League Against Cruel Sports sanctuary and base near Dulverton

  • Hotel reaches gold standard

    A MINEHEAD hotel scooped the industry's highest accolade for the third year in a row. The two-star Channel House Hotel at Church Path has been awarded the English Tourism Council's Gold Award for outstanding quality. The recognition goes to only four

  • Canadian star first over line

    BRILLIANT sunshine brought the crowds out in their thousands lining Minehead Promenade in West Somerset, to watch a class field of British and international athletes begin what many describe as the hardest XTERRA course in the world. For the first time