• Police claim successes in drugs war

  By josdave

  The war on drugs will never ever be won and the only way out is to legalise them. The supply and use...

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 08:01 on 22/02/12

  

  A POLICE crackdown on illegal drugs has seen more than 400 arrests made in raids in the Bodmin, Wadebridge and Padstow areas during the past five years. The vast majority were in the Bodmin area, where 345 people were detained by officers in the police's continuing war against drugs. There were 35 arrests in Wadebridge, 11 in Padstow and 4 in St Merryn. Inspector Ian Drummond-Smith, who is in charge of local policing in the area,...

• Burkina Faso fascinates

  By Blogadougou

  Burkina Faso is actually located in the heart of West Africa, not in East Africa. I hope this gets...

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 08:00 on 15/02/12

  

  MORE than 400 children and staff at Wadebridge Primary School heard first-hand about life in East Africa from a visiting head teacher from Burkina Faso. Dramane, principal of a high school in the capital, Ouagadougou, answered questions on everything from the subjects taught in his school to the weather in his country. (And yes, the sun really does shine all the time.) The whole school took part in an assembly arranged as a spin-off...

• Fury of mum as baby left trapped in car

  By neil3

  How ridiculous to call 999 thinking that this is an emergency police matter. And how even more...

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 08:01 on 15/02/12

  

  AN ANGRY and tearful mum from Bodmin has lodged an official police complaint after they refused to help rescue her baby daughter who became trapped in a car. A distraught Danielle Stephens was forced to call a glass company in Wadebridge to smash a window of her vehicle to free nine-month-old Maize-Mae. Mrs Stephens, who owns the Bloom Room florists in Bodmin and Wadebridge, said she was parked near G and PJ Nute veterinary...

• Three people hospitalised by CO2 poisoning

  By Nippie

  Thanks rndpers, you beat me to it hehehe!

            

   

  By Western Morning News at 05:30 on 13/02/12

  

  Three people were taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after the deadly gas leaked from a wood burner stove at a house in Cornwall. Firefighters were called to the village of St Mabyn, near Wadebridge, North Cornwall after a detector went off warning the toxic fumes were present. Two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the property at Kelly Park, off Station Road, and used their own detectors to take...

• Avalon youth theatre in Wadebridge stage Dr Seuss musical

  By twolitresaday

  Loving the costumes!

            

   

  By Shayne_H at 15:48 on 08/02/12

  

  Avalon youth theatre in Wadebridge are staging a musical based on the famous Dr Seuss books at half-term. A huge hit in America, Seussical incorporates elements from at least 15 books, as well as many of his best-loved and most familiar characters. Avalon Youth Theatre is a volunteer-run group for local children aged 7 to 17 and has been busy rehearsing Seussical since September. Paula Every from Avalon said, "The music's...

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