Politics used to be simple and straightforward. Labour wanted to nationalise everything, the Tories supported City fat cats and the Liberals sat on the fence, changing their views from day to day depending upon who was listening. All the other parties
Captain Peter Leask, 42, was jailed for eight months at Lerwick Sheriff Court for being three times over the legal alcohol limit when the salvage tug Anglian Sovereign, one of four such vessels on charter to the Maritime Coastguard Agency, grounded at
A&P Falmouth Port Operations director Mike Reynolds, one of the men responsible for the port's burgeoning cruise industry, will dine aboard the world's largest cruiseship, the 160,000 ton Freedom of the Seas on Sunday at Southampton when members of the
Jo Tankers of Norway have been praised by The Mission to Seafarers in Falmouth for the care they have shown Filipino sailor Benito Gregorio, following his accident aboard the tanker Jo Eik. Benito sustained a badly fractured pelvis when he was washed
Tuesday, April 18. Malta tanker Moskovskiy Festival (18,522/85) moved from the Carrick Roads to the Eastern to discharge fuel oil. Wednesday, April 19. Bahamas ro/ro CFF Seine (9,071/84) sailed from Falmouth Bay for Southampton. Danish cable layer
On the eve of the World Pilot Gig championships due to be held on the Isles of Scilly this weekend, the Flushing and Mylor Pilot Gig Club has taken delivery of its new gig Penarrow, which has been delivered on time by well-known local boat builder Andrew
n My thanks to fellow ship enthusiast Roland Hampe, of Hamburg, who has sent me this picture showing the fire damage to the mega cruiseship Star Princess. Preparatory work was carried out while crossing the Atlantic. German ship repairers Lloyd Werft
Packet columnist David Barnicoat writes (In Port, April 19): "A 27,000 tonne consignment of fuel oil for World Fuel arrived on Sunday aboard the tanker Moskovskiy Festival. "The bunkering vessel Whitstar has been lightening the tanker in order that she
"I WAS right about this propaganda tax" (Packet letters, April 19). Oh dear, contrary to his own rather optimistic self-appraisal I was dead right, one of the group leaders of a small party at County Hall has got it wrong again, a bit like the Tories
HAVING spent the Easter weekend in the tower block at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro I have discovered a way they can save loads of money without getting rid of the excellent staff. Change the radiators! Having boiled alive for two days in a room
David Barnicoat's article about NZS Co ships in Falmouth in the 50's and 60's brought back many happy memories of the times we were lucky enough to be refitting in Falmouth. As an apprentice and navigating officer with NZS Co, after six or nine month
HAVE you heard the one about the radio station searching for a "jingle"? Radio Cornwall has come up with a beauty. Unfamiliar English voices now sing the praises of their host country. One lady, she of the melodious London accent, can find one fault
A police chief has rightly criticised parents for lack of parental control over their children after a 12-year-old was found drunk in the streets of Falmouth. Great! He's hit the nail on the head, by stating that which every other one adult in the community
I have now lived in Cornwall for just five years. I was born in the East End of London but we spent a lot of our holidays in Cornwall and we were always told to take our rubbish home. Why is it that all the winter the roads are completely free from rubbish
As a reviled (in some quarters, apparently) second home owner in Porthleven, I have a very simple solution for the campaigners. Ask the Cornish home owners not to sell to "outsiders" then we couldn't buy, could we? However, the Cornish people who sold
It's a startling statistic but over 2.5 million men, women and children are living with some form of heart disease. I'm sure most of your readers will know someone who's been affected. Without British Heart Foundation (BHF) research thousands of hearts
I AM trying to trace any relatives of Stella Fox, residing at Rosehill, Falmouth, in 1936, having recently returned from Mylor. She had an uncle, a Professor Masson of Edinburgh, and I believe a son (or brother) named Charles Masson Fox. An object with
