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  • Businessman bids to save HMS Carrick

    A determined bid to save one of the most historic ships in the world and bring her to Falmouth has been launched by a Taunton-based business man. HMS Carrick is the only wooden sailing passenger ship of the 19th Century to have survived in Great Britain

  • Pop group meet after 40 years

    FORTY years is a long time in pop music and when members of 60s pop group The Undecided met for a reunion in Falmouth it was just like old times. Although there are now a few spreading girths and thinning hairlines, within a short space of time the group

  • Parents of persistent truants fined or get parenting orders

    Four parents of persistent truants from the Falmouth and Penryn areas have been fined or given parenting orders after being convicted of failing to ensure their children went to school regularly. Three parents, all of whom pleaded guilty to the offence

  • Famous sword bought for maritime museum

    THE National Maritime Museum in Falmouth has acquired a sword of such national importance that The Arts Fund, Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, and a private donor, all provided funding to secure it for the museum. The MacDonnell sword