DESPITE cuts in funding to school sport, competition and school sport are still Alive and Kicking in North and East Cornwall.

Thanks to a huge response from local primary, secondary schools and community sports providers the former Callington School Sport Partnership has been redeveloped and will now be known as 'ARENA'.

The first major event for ARENA took place on Friday, September 30 at Widemouth Bay with the support of Outdoor Adventure.

Over 250 pupils from six local secondary schools were involved in the seventh Outdoor Adventure Inter-Academy Surf and Activity Festival.

For the rest of this story, and a round up of the area news and sport, please see this week's edition of the 'Post'.