Vodka drinker was four times the legal limit
DRINKING a "significant quantity" of vodka before driving led a 53-year-old Redruth driver to hit another vehicle in Redruth one afternoon and cost her her licence at Truro Magistrates' Court.Melanie...
View ArticleLoner can't explain racial abuse
A CHILD who was the subject of racially aggravated abuse from a 77-year-old man on the Prince of Wales Pier at Falmouth was fortunately too young to know anything about it, the man's solicitor Terry...
View ArticlePolice appeal for information after a motorbike was stolen at St...
POLICE are appealing for information after a motorcycle was stolen from St Day.The black Honda CBR 125 motorcycle was taken from a Chapel Street between 10pm on November 27 and 1am on November 28. The...
View ArticleFormer Army man Ciaran Forster from Redruth assaulted partner...
A DRUNK former soldier assaulted his partner after an argument about him preferring to be with his friends over his family.On November 1 Ciaran Forster, 25, argued with Jasmine Frank and she asked him...
View ArticleCollision spins car to face oncoming vehicles
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a car crash which left a family facing oncoming traffic on one of Cornwall's busiest roads.The single-vehicle accident involved a blue Vauxhall Zafira and took...
View ArticleCanadian canoe stolen from Mawnan Smith home and sloop damaged at...
POLICE are appealing for information after a "one-of-a-kind" Canadian canoe was stolen from a property on the Helford river.The theft occurred between November 30 and December 1 at a boathouse near...
View ArticleChristmas tree stolen from Kelley Road, Falmouth
POLICE are appealing for information following the theft of a Christmas tree from Kelley Road, Falmouth.A man was seen running from the scene at about 11.30pm on Friday.Anyone with information is asked...
View ArticleLee David Whitby, 29, of Trenoweth Road, Falmouth, enters guilty...
LEE DAVID WHITBY, 29, of Trenoweth Road, Falmouth, entered a guilty plea at Truro Magistrates' Court to theft at Falmouth during April and was conditionally discharged for a year and told to pay...
View ArticleCAMBORNEThefts at sites
POLICE are appealing for information after thieves targeted two construction sites in Camborne.The sites on Enys Road and Boiler Works Road have been broken into several times over the past month and...
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Single clinical kick turned Truro family's life upside-down
THESE are the shocking injuries inflicted on a Truro taxi driver who was kicked in the face during a night out with his wife. When Carol and Shaun Webb went to the Victoria Inn at Threemilestone in...
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Falmouth police issue description of stolen Christmas tree as ...
Police in Falmouth have called for the public's help in tracing a Christmas tree described as '6ft tall, with lots of green branches and prickly bits'.The tongue-in-cheek appeal has been issued on the...
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Paedophile Alexander Lake, of Porthtowan, jailed for 20 years for...
A PAEDOPHILE from Porthtowan who sexually assaulted three boys over a 20-year period – starting when he was aged just 10 or 11 – has been jailed for 20 years. Alexander Lake, 39, of East Cliff, abused...
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Helston police officer Christopher Higgs admits conning women out...
A Helston police officer has admitted conning a string of women out of tens of thousands of pounds to fund his gambling addiction.Desperate PC Christopher Higgs then tried to blackmail and persuade his...
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Teen drank too much, took father's car without permission and...
A teenager took his father's car without permission and crashed it into a garden wall - the day after he passed his driving test.Mateusz Rudnik, 19, of Higher Fore Street, Redruth, pleaded guilty at...
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£5 million property con trio jailed
A GANG of fraudsters headed by a Truro film director who conned their way to almost £5 million in a major eight-year mortgage swindle have been jailed.Three men at the centre of the complex con...
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Officer numbers and police stations face cuts threat
GOVERNMENT cuts leave Devon and Cornwall Police with "no choice" but to consider cutting officer numbers and closing police stations, the crime commissioner has warned.Policing Minister Mike Penning...
View ArticlePENRYNTrial date set
CRAIG WILLIAM WRIGHT, 42, of The Terrace, Penryn, pleaded not guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court to assaulting Catherine Goodger at Falmouth on November 28, and the case was adjourned for trial at...
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Falmouth pubgoer Luke Davies behaved like a "complete...
A pubgoer behaved like a "complete prat" when he threw a bar stool at two men. Luke Davies, 25, of High Street, Falmouth, was in the Prince of Wales on March 13 when he became frustrated and agitated...
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Care worker Denise Huntley spared jail for "despicable"...
A FORMER care worker from Truro, who convinced a vulnerable 80-year-old man she had looked after to sign blank cheques and stole more than £2,500 from him, has been handed a suspended sentence with no...
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Judge's New Year's resolution to reverse "deplorable"...
A JUDGE has made it his New Year's resolution to reverse a decision to axe cafe facilities at Truro Crown Court – a situation he described as "deplorable". Resident judge at Truro, Judge Christopher...
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