101 CALLS, CCTV and more police cuts were the talk of the town during Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg's community day visit to Bude on Friday.

In his role, Mr Hogg's primary focus is to reconnect the public with the police force, putting victims first, pioneering new initiatives, challenging old practices and monitoring the new ones.

He started his visit at Bude's Community Action Through Sport — CATS.

Setting out to raise the reputation of young people in the area, along with representatives from the police and secondary school, CATS offers young people the opportunity to get involved, in a positive way with their community and in turn rewards the positive actions with sports activities and healthy living vouchers.

In 2014, Mr Hogg allocated CATS Bude with £4,396 from the OPCC Small Grant Scheme to fund sports diversion schemes.

Sharon Marshall, a volunteer and committee member and the person managing the OPCC small grant, spoke of how the money has helped sustain the work they do and said that approximately 700 children have benefited from it so far.

Annie Winsland, another committee member and sessional youth worker, heads up Bude youth hub and explained with Sharon how important their service was in the context of the relative isolation within Cornwall of the Bude area, local authority cutbacks of the youth service and youth provision.

Mr Hogg said: "It's nice to be able to make funds like this available, it's public money that I want to channel in the right direction."

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