Cornwall
The latest news and comment on Cornwall
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Tennyson’s Tintagel, best washed down with a pint of Tribute and a pastyLetters: It was Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (and a new railway to nearby Camelford) that brought the first wave of tourists in search of Merlin & Co in the late 19th century
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Our coast is seen as contemporary common land, the last wild place. ‘Selling’ it with something as attention-seeking as Tintagel’s ‘Arthur’ sculpture shuts down the imaginationStop this Disneyfication of our coastline
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Kingly statue plunges sword into Tintagel's Arthurian rowRegal figure to be unveiled this week on Cornish site where English Heritage has already been accused of ‘Disneyfication’
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Cornish Wreckers and cricket in the mudCountry Diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley They dance the length of the expanding bank, like a strange flock of black-feathered waders in the distance
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Special delivery – how postmaster trekked 300 miles to help customerCornwall man travelled by car and four trains to Sussex to deliver a passport needed by a customer for an overseas trip
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Police intervene due to overcrowding on Cornwall-bound trainOfficers ask customers to disembark from crammed Good Friday train as passengers criticise chaotic and unsafe service
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Warts and all: critically endangered warty piglet on show in CornwallVisitors to Newquay zoo can now catch a glimpse of Visayan warty piglet born in February
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Dave Grohl writes to Cornwall council to allow local band to practiseUnsigned band Black Leaves of Envy asked Foo Fighters frontman for help, as local noise restrictions prevent them rehersing
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Swimmers rescued by helicopter off Cornwall coast after being swept out to sea - videoTwo swimmers are rescued by helicopter in Cornwall after they were swept out to sea by a strong rip current
From Cornwall to the cosmos: how Newquay could get a spaceport