Towns and villages throughout the ‘Post’ area marked the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday with a wealth of different events from tea parties held by the Women’s Institute in Bradworthy to peals of church bells in Marhamchurch on Friday.

Launceston is the only local community to have entered the South West in Bloom competition this year, with the town competing against 73 others in a variety of classes.

No one in the Holsworthy area has yet claimed free five alarms on offer from Holsworthy Lions and Devon Fire and Rescue Service.

The last few weeks have heralded the invasion of the workplace by pupils from local schools, writes Michael Green on work experience at the ‘Post’. Pupils have, all across the country, been going on their work experience placemenets, getting their first taste of work, and with any luck, impressing the boss into giving them a glowing report. I am one of these (un)lucky grouo and have spent two weeks working at the ‘Post’.

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A total of £430 was raised for the Cancer Research Campaign at a tea and coffee evening given by Mesdames Pam Boundy and Greta Stephens at the Clease Hall, Camelford.

The late 1960s, sixteen quid a week wages and romance blooming - they’re all in “Relatively Speaking,” the latest production from Budehaven Theatre Club which started its summer run in Poughill village hall last week.

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Mr Donald Jenkins, aged 86, has now returned home to Canada after visiting his old home at Cleverdon, Bradworthy, where he stayed with his nephew and niece, Mr and Mrs Martin Jenkins.

Miss J K Braddon opened Laneast Church Fete and was presented with a bouquet by Alison Francis, Miss Braddon was introduced by Major J C B Lethbridge, churchwarden, and thanked by Rev R F G Pearce.

Mr Walter Parnell has been an organist for 60 years and he is still playing at St Andrew’s Church, Stratton. He started at the Church of the Holy Name, Boyton in August 1915, and went to St Martin’s Werrington in June 1921. He came to St Andrew’s in 1932 and is still organist after 43 years.

Paying tribute to Mrs J B Whitehouse on her retirement from Camelford bench of magistrates, on Friday, the chairman (Mr M H HIcks) said she made a valuable contribution to the decision making of the court.

Mr Ivor Tennant, of West Wortha Farm, Germansweek, faces the prospect of losing his house and the whole following the South West Water Authority’s decision to promote Roadford, near Broadwoodwidger, as the site for a new £36,000,000 reservoir.

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Jacobstow carnival parade was led by the queen, Carolyn Scott, and her “attendants” Jacqueline Harrison and Susan Williams, in their decorated coach lent by Mr A Parnell and driven by Mr Rigby-Jones and Trevor Scott.

The president, Mr F Nute, opened Tintagel Flower Corttage Garden and Poultry Society’s 50th annual exhibition in the Social Hall.

Susan Colwill, aged five, presented a bouquet to councillor Mrs C R Ward who had opened Poughill revel and Cuckoo fair.

The Launceston team of Messrs H J Dunn, R M B Parnall and R B Treleaven reached the final of Westward Television’s Landmark general knowledge quiz.

Holsworthy made history when they entertained North Tawton in the first cricket match ever played at Holsworthy on a Sunday.

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A garden party to raise funds for repairs to Poundstock Vicarage, was opened by the noted historian and writer, Mr A L Rowse, on Thursday week.

Holsworthy gardeners and farmers in the area will have cause to be grateful to youthful hunters from the local schools who have accounted for 9,015 butterflies, to be provided for a class in the Holsworthy Horticultural Society’s annual show on Saturday.

In order to cope with the ever increasing demands on our space for news and advertisements, as well as the need for dealing with a vastly increased circulation, the “Post and Weekly News” has just seen complted six weeks of arduous work on the part of building contractors and engineers, to install a new printing press weighing over 16 tons and made by Messrs Dawson Payne and Elliott Ltd, of Otley, Yorks,.

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The Soviet Union has joined Great Britain, the United States and China in a war with Japan, but the latest development is the use of a terrifying new British-American weapon, the atomic bomb, one of which has been dropped on Hiroshima.

Doubtful weather, no beer through shortage of supplies and long queues for meals were the chief features at Bude over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

For slaughtering a pig without a licence, a local man was fined £5 5s at Launceston magistrates court on Monday. It was stated that to comply with the Ministry of Food’s regulations, he should have sold half the pig to a butcher, instead, he kept it all for himself.

Prizewinners at the baby show which was part of the British Legion fete at Edymead, Launceston, on Thursday were Ann Chapman (best in show), David Randall, Lesley Haesler, Susan Keridan, Pamela Hill, Margaret Waterford, Sylvia Bakerwall, Leslie Harris, Patrick Horner, Wendy Thompson, Joy Adams and Malcolm Hill.

Tor View, Valley Truckle, Camelford, with three and a quarter acres, fetched £3,050 at auction, Thursday, and at Bude, Treriven, Ocean View Road, a detached house, made £2,300. There was sharp bidding for a Launcells smallholding, Underwood (25 acres) and it eventually went for £2,975.

Tintagel has just had a British Legion week, in aid of the building fund of the local branch. The organising secretary is Mr S Canyage Caple.

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Launceston’s miniature super cinema in Market Street is to be opened next week, replacing the old Picture Palace in Northgate Street. It’s first film will be “D-ye Kea John Peel”, starring John Stuart and Winifred Shotter.

Callington magistrates last week protested strongly at the use of their courtroom at the Town Hall as a cinema. They are writing to St Germans RDC for a formal apology in writing.

Outstanding exhibit at the Launceston Cottage Garden Show in the Town Hall was a collection of plants, including lilies, standing eight feet high, entered by Mrs J Dingley, of Eagle House. There was a total of 841 entries.

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Mr J H B Prouse, aged 62, of Southenhayes, Tavistock Road, Launceston, who died suddenly on Monday night, had been a town councillor for over 30 years and had many public offices. Born at Virginstow, he stated farm work at the age of nine, but entered the postal service when he came to Launceston and served for 35 years. He was a prominent figure in the Labour party and the Wesleyan Church.

A horse and cart belonging to Mr Herbert May and driven by a young man in his employ, was struck by lightning at Trevillett Slate Quarries, Tintagel. One horse had to be destroyed.

On the shore of Duckpool, Morwenstow, on Wednesday, the Rev H Hugh Breton conducted the service of the blessing of the sea. A wreath was placed on the sea by Mr Belling, Churchwarden, in memory of the drowned.