St Catherine’s C of E pupils went to Kernow House Nursing Home, Launceston, last Wednesday to perform their Easter play ‘Hosanna Rock’ for the residents. Pictured with one of the residents Bill Adcock were pupils Ian Daughtrey, Ryan Cox, Christopher Franklin and Laura Jane Adams.

Thousands of residents and businesses in and around Launceston are to be paid £10 compensation following last week’s water scare, with people at Coads Green receiving twice as much. The compensation is to be paid by South West Water because of the inconvenience which followed the issuing of notices telling everyone to boil the water before use.

Bude Library welcomed over 40 children into the library to see tarantula spiders, snakes and other bugs and beasty things courtesy of Pets Galore of Bude.

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The new Padstow lifeboat which covers the North Cornish coast as far as Hartland Point was named “James Burrough” at a ceremony last week. Coxwain Trevor England and crew members prepared the final details with Port Isaac Inshore Lifeboat alongside.

Liberal Mike Mitchell has offered his help to Tory MP Gerry Neale in a bid to show all-party support for a speedy start to the Okehampton by-pass.

There was disagreement among members of the Camelford Town Council at last week’s meeting over the suggestion that one or more councillors should take on the special duty of reporting on the empty factories on the Highfield estate.

Five out of six small workshops on Holsworthy’s industrial estate are lying empty. But the Development Commission — set up by the Government to stimulate growth in rural areas — last week earmarked £210,000 for six more to be built.

In a letter to the Editor, Mr George Olde of Treolden, Tintagel, extols the beauty of Minster Church, Boscastle, which he, his wife and a friends visited recently.

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Mr W E Harwood’s proposal that the gas lamp on the ancient bridge across the River Kensey at Newport should be removed on the grounds that it would be expensive to maintain and not in keeping with the bridge, was supported by nine votes to five at a meeting of Launceston Town Council.

Miss Lilian Tucker, who was born in the parish of Launcells and later became a Sunday School teacher and organist at the chapel, officially opened the extension to the Sunday School at Launcells Methodist Church.

Michael Jones, aged 11, received three trophies for a hat-trick as the highest sponsored walker in the St Breward Silver Band’s walk in 1973, 1974 and again this year.

Mrs Diana Webb, of East Ash, Bradworthy, exhibited three rabbits at the International Small Livestock Show in Nantes, France. The rabbits were much admired and were awarded a cup and two prizes of honour. As there is no reimportation of livestock, the animals were sold and were among the first to be purchased by French buyers.

The secretary of Launceston RFC, Mr Geoff Basnett, is to leave for Berkshire shortly so by way of tribute he has been nominated to skipper the Over Thirties side against an Under Thirties side at Polson on Tuesday evening. Others in his XV are: John Russell, Tim Reeder, Percy May, Les Baker, Lew Courtney, John Vivian, Derek Thorne, Phil Washer, John Stratton, Stuart Armson, Duncan Gordon, Nigel Brent and Dick Willoughby.

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Neil Burden of Launceston YFC has won a silver medal for proficiency tests. To obtain this award Neil passed the following seven tests: sheep shearing, machine milking, tractor maintenance, cattle and sheep stockman’s, gate-making and poultry trussing.

The Tasmanian season is now getting into full swing in Launceston with a flow of visitors from the namesake city “down under” coming to see the mother town for themselves. The Mayor, Mr Frank Jordan, has greeted ten Australian visitors in ten days.

Launceston College now has 618 pupils on roll following the amalgamation with Pennygillam earlier this year. These numbers are at present distributed between the buildings at Dunheved and those at Pennygillam, with 311 in the former and 307 in the latter.

Inspt C P Cole, of Bude, is retiring next week from Cornwall Constabulary after more than 33 years service. He was awarded the Kings Police Medal for gallantry in recognition of his bravery in making a double descent down a deep mine shaft in a vain attempt to save the life of a nine year old boy who had fallen in.

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Currently showing at the Regal Cinema, Delabole, is “Kiss Me Kate”, starring Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel.

Mr Lloyd Goodman, of Tregada, near Launceston, reports sighting a Bristol Britannia aircraft flying in a westerly direction at about 11.15am on Monday.

Mr Edwin Malindine, prospective Liberal candidate for North Cornwall, said Liberals in the constituency welcomed the coming General Election. Parliament had been stale for some time and the two Party machines, locked in combat, had become punch-drunk.

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A committee has been set up at Bude to go into the provision of a home for the aged for the town and district. Mr J H Hallett is chairman and Messrs F Ash and L Dymond are the hon secretaries.

Rev G F D Pitts has been appointed by Oxford University as Vicar of South Petherwin and Trewen. He is no stranger to the district for on leaving school he was for a year employed at Barclays Bank, Launceston.

At the first general meeting of the Stratton Welcome Home Fund for the returning Service men and women, Mr G Wyle was appointed president and treasurer: Mr H Harris, chairman; Mr W T Ward and Miss D Lyle, joint secretaries.

Among local prisoners of war freed by the advancing Allied Armies in Europe are F/Sgt James Watson, St Ann’s Chapel, Pte E Donovan, Upton Cross; Warrant Officer T B D Edy, Bude; Sgt F C Brown, MM, Launceston; Guardsman K Ball, Launceston; Gunner L Burdon, St Teath; Pte C Sleeman and Signalman V Parkyn, both Wadebridge.

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Tintagel’s new hall, until recently the property of the late Mr F T Glasscock, but now purchased by Mrs Ruth Holman, of Fairseat Place, and presented to Tintagel as a social centre, was formally opened on Friday by Ald T E Wakefield, of Camelford, during a concert by the Tintagel Orpheus Choir. The deeds were presented to Mr J Cotton, the secretary and treasurer of the new trustees.

The vicar of St Mary’s Launceston, Rev N A Rivers-Tippett, is to resign because of ill health. He has been at Launceston since 1919.

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Marking the 40th anniversary of the “Star of the East Tent”, Callington, the annual district meeting of the Rechabites was held there on Tuesday. The Callington Tent has the largest membership of any Friendly Society in the town.

A man who walked into Delabole church last Sunday during the service and asked: “Is this the Church of England or the Church of Rome?” held an open-air meeting in the afternoon and protested at divergence from the prayer book.