ONE man and his dog from St Gennys are the latest duo to share a personal story for Cornwall Hospice Care.

As part of the charity's #HospiceStories project, Jon Venner and Jasmine are featured in a short film that launched on Monday.

Jon talks about his late wife, Kim, the song he wrote in her memory and the dog that keeps him going. The story also coincided with the charity opening a second shop in Bude to help raise vital funds.

As Jon said in his personal account, he and his wife Kim fitted well together so it was a devastating blow when she faced cancer.

Ultimately they found themselves visiting Mount Edgcumbe Hospice in St Austell.

Jon said: "Kim went downhill really quickly and she went in to the hospice originally, just for pain relief. The hospice went from being the scariest word you could hear in the world, to being something that was just safe.

"Safe is the word that you most feel. The teams there made the unbearable bearable.

"Kim's cancer went to her brain and she ended up in the hospital for a while. It never stops there, all night and all day, it just never stops. And when we went back to the hospice it was like getting back to the safest and most peaceful place you can imagine. The other big thing for me was that Jasmine could go to the hospice so we could be a family in Kim's room, and having the dog there makes such a tremendous amount of difference."

For the full report, and a round-up of the area news and sport, see this week's edition of the Post.