Children as young as 11 have been caught with weapons including knives and a BB gun in schools in Cornwall and Devon - but Cornwall Council has refused to address the matter.Shocking figures show that 27 crimes have been recorded involving possession of offensive weapons in schools over the past five years, with the highest numbers coming in the past two years. And they include three adults, a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old.The list of crimes between 2011 and 2015 was revealed through a request...
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Shocking figures reveal children as young as 11 with weapons...
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Fine for Keiron Rowse from Nanpean who is sentenced over illegal...
A second man has been sentenced for selling illegal tobacco that had been smuggled into Cornwall.
At Bodmin Magistrates' Court, Keiron Rowse, 63, of Currian Road, Nanpean, near St Austell, admitted three charges of possessing smuggled tobacco and was ordered to pay fines and prosecution costs of almost £3,700.
He was also ordered to forfeit the 63 pouches of tobacco and the £1,000 cash seized by Cornwall Trading Standards when it raided his home in May this year.
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Family of Camelford father Guy Crowhurst slam pensioner driver...
The anguished family of a father of three who was killed in a horror crash have slammed the actions of a pensioner who avoided jail after causing his death.
Guy Crowhurst, 49, was on the way to get his wife Clare a birthday present with his two daughters on November 30, 2014, when his Mini collided head-on with a BMW driven by Russell Colledge, then 80.
Guy, from Camelford,
died at the scene on the A395 at Laneast near Launceston while his daughters Phoebe, 10, and Abigail, 12, were taken...
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Banged up in 2016 are the criminals who won't be walking the...
The year 2016 proved to be a busy month at Truro Crown Court with a number of criminals from Newquay hauled before the judges and handed some stiff sentences.
From a fraud who nearly put the town's rugby club under to a drug dealer nicknamed 'Chapo', we take a look at the Newquay criminals jailed in 2017 who'll be spending their Christmas behind bars.
DANIEL PUGH
Repeat offender Pugh was jailed in January for breaking into Newquay homes, despite having been given an "enormous...
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Police hunt suspect who allegedly hit man over head with meat...
Police want to speak to this man in connection with an altercation at a Chinese restaurant in Liskeard.Officers were called to the Hot Wok in Pondbridge Hill at around 3.15pm on Wednesday the 23rd of November.It is alleged that one man struck his victim over the head with a meat cleaver during the incident. Read more: Police investigate after 49-year-old was injured in violent altercation in LiskeardParamedics attended to treat a 49-year-old man who had sustained wounds to the neck and scalp and...
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Allex Pond jailed after slashing Tintagel mother's car tyres and...
A man has been jailed after slashing his mother's car tyres with a knife and threatening to slit her throat while she was inside.Allex Pond, 28, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Truro Crown Court following an incident in Tintagel on September 22. Pond had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to carrying a knife in public, destroying two car tyres and using threatening language.Pond had contacted his mother, Dawn Russell, three months prior to the incident, asking her to accommodate him...
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Police hunt suspect who allegedly hit man over head with meat...
Police want to speak to this man in connection with an altercation at a Chinese restaurant in Liskeard.Officers were called to the Hot Wok in Pondbridge Hill at around 3.15pm on Wednesday the 23rd of November.It is alleged that one man struck his victim over the head with a meat cleaver during the incident. Read more: Police investigate after 49-year-old was injured in violent altercation in LiskeardParamedics attended to treat a 49-year-old man who had sustained wounds to the neck and scalp and...
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Allex Pond jailed after slashing Tintagel mother's car tyres and...
A man has been jailed after slashing his mother's car tyres with a knife and threatening to slit her throat while she was inside.Allex Pond, 28, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Truro Crown Court following an incident in Tintagel on September 22. Pond had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to carrying a knife in public, destroying two car tyres and using threatening language.Pond had contacted his mother, Dawn Russell, three months prior to the incident, asking her to accommodate him...
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Police hunt suspect who allegedly hit man over head with meat...
Police want to speak to this man in connection with an altercation at a Chinese restaurant in Liskeard.Officers were called to the Hot Wok in Pondbridge Hill at around 3.15pm on Wednesday the 23rd of November.It is alleged that one man struck his victim over the head with a meat cleaver during the incident. Read more: Police investigate after 49-year-old was injured in violent altercation in LiskeardParamedics attended to treat a 49-year-old man who had sustained wounds to the neck and scalp and...
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Allex Pond jailed after slashing Tintagel mother's car tyres and...
A man has been jailed after slashing his mother's car tyres with a knife and threatening to slit her throat while she was inside.Allex Pond, 28, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Truro Crown Court following an incident in Tintagel on September 22. Pond had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to carrying a knife in public, destroying two car tyres and using threatening language.Pond had contacted his mother, Dawn Russell, three months prior to the incident, asking her to accommodate him...
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Police hunt suspect who allegedly hit man over head with meat...
Police want to speak to this man in connection with an altercation at a Chinese restaurant in Liskeard.Officers were called to the Hot Wok in Pondbridge Hill at around 3.15pm on Wednesday the 23rd of November.It is alleged that one man struck his victim over the head with a meat cleaver during the incident. Read more: Police investigate after 49-year-old was injured in violent altercation in LiskeardParamedics attended to treat a 49-year-old man who had sustained wounds to the neck and scalp and...
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Allex Pond jailed after slashing Tintagel mother's car tyres and...
A man has been jailed after slashing his mother's car tyres with a knife and threatening to slit her throat while she was inside.Allex Pond, 28, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Truro Crown Court following an incident in Tintagel on September 22. Pond had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to carrying a knife in public, destroying two car tyres and using threatening language.Pond had contacted his mother, Dawn Russell, three months prior to the incident, asking her to accommodate him...
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Police hunt suspect who allegedly hit man over head with meat...
Police want to speak to this man in connection with an altercation at a Chinese restaurant in Liskeard.Officers were called to the Hot Wok in Pondbridge Hill at around 3.15pm on Wednesday the 23rd of November.It is alleged that one man struck his victim over the head with a meat cleaver during the incident. Read more: Police investigate after 49-year-old was injured in violent altercation in LiskeardParamedics attended to treat a 49-year-old man who had sustained wounds to the neck and scalp and...
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Allex Pond jailed after slashing Tintagel mother's car tyres and...
A man has been jailed after slashing his mother's car tyres with a knife and threatening to slit her throat while she was inside.Allex Pond, 28, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Truro Crown Court following an incident in Tintagel on September 22. Pond had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to carrying a knife in public, destroying two car tyres and using threatening language.Pond had contacted his mother, Dawn Russell, three months prior to the incident, asking her to accommodate him...
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Police hunt suspect who allegedly hit man over head with meat...
Police want to speak to this man in connection with an altercation at a Chinese restaurant in Liskeard.Officers were called to the Hot Wok in Pondbridge Hill at around 3.15pm on Wednesday the 23rd of November.It is alleged that one man struck his victim over the head with a meat cleaver during the incident. Read more: Police investigate after 49-year-old was injured in violent altercation in LiskeardParamedics attended to treat a 49-year-old man who had sustained wounds to the neck and scalp and...
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Allex Pond jailed after slashing Tintagel mother's car tyres and...
A man has been jailed after slashing his mother's car tyres with a knife and threatening to slit her throat while she was inside.Allex Pond, 28, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Truro Crown Court following an incident in Tintagel on September 22. Pond had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to carrying a knife in public, destroying two car tyres and using threatening language.Pond had contacted his mother, Dawn Russell, three months prior to the incident, asking her to accommodate him...
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Police hunt suspect who allegedly hit man over head with meat...
Police want to speak to this man in connection with an altercation at a Chinese restaurant in Liskeard.Officers were called to the Hot Wok in Pondbridge Hill at around 3.15pm on Wednesday the 23rd of November.It is alleged that one man struck his victim over the head with a meat cleaver during the incident. Read more: Police investigate after 49-year-old was injured in violent altercation in LiskeardParamedics attended to treat a 49-year-old man who had sustained wounds to the neck and scalp and...
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Allex Pond jailed after slashing Tintagel mother's car tyres and...
A man has been jailed after slashing his mother's car tyres with a knife and threatening to slit her throat while she was inside.Allex Pond, 28, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Truro Crown Court following an incident in Tintagel on September 22. Pond had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to carrying a knife in public, destroying two car tyres and using threatening language.Pond had contacted his mother, Dawn Russell, three months prior to the incident, asking her to accommodate him...
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Police hunt suspect who allegedly hit man over head with meat...
Police want to speak to this man in connection with an altercation at a Chinese restaurant in Liskeard.Officers were called to the Hot Wok in Pondbridge Hill at around 3.15pm on Wednesday the 23rd of November.It is alleged that one man struck his victim over the head with a meat cleaver during the incident. Read more: Police investigate after 49-year-old was injured in violent altercation in LiskeardParamedics attended to treat a 49-year-old man who had sustained wounds to the neck and scalp and...
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Allex Pond jailed after slashing Tintagel mother's car tyres and...
A man has been jailed after slashing his mother's car tyres with a knife and threatening to slit her throat while she was inside.Allex Pond, 28, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Truro Crown Court following an incident in Tintagel on September 22. Pond had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to carrying a knife in public, destroying two car tyres and using threatening language.Pond had contacted his mother, Dawn Russell, three months prior to the incident, asking her to accommodate him...
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