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Book reviews – June 2024 – Sallie Eden – Travel Takeaways

Travel Takeaways by Julie WatsonPublished by Beachy Books, 2023 Subtitled “Around the world in forty tales”, the book comprises (yes, you guessed it) forty short accounts of the author’s trips to places...

Weather – Kernow Weather Team – April weather summary

What a wet and windy April it was! Storm after storm. Let’s hope better weather is on the way. Here’s a summary of what April had to offer from the Kernow Weather...

BeeMania – May 2024 – Colin Rees

The weather might have kept the bees in their hives but they are still busy. Expert, Colin Rees, updates us on what bees do in bad weather. Well, after last month I...

Philleigh Way Wood opens this year – here’s a sneak preview of what’s to come

Forest bathing is coming to Philleigh Woods You can already take a public footpath down through Philleigh’s ancient woodland to the creek and back, but work is underway to extend the woods...

Gardening – May 2024 – Alison Agnew

Our resident gardening expert, Alison Agnew, takes us on a tour of nurseries that are definitely worth a visit. Plant hunting in the wild west I have been plant hunting – not...

Book reviews – May 2024 – Sallie Eden – Disappearance in Fiji

A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima RaoPublished by Zaffre 2023 ‘A disgraced police sergeant, a missing woman and a plantation full of secrets’ Set in 1914, during British colonial rule, this debut novel brilliantly...

Book reviews – May 2024 – Sallie Eden – Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie by Lucy WorsleyPublished in paperback by Hodder, 2023 The Daily Telegraph described this book as a mix of biography, analysis and literary criticism and it’s exactly that. That it’s well researched is...

Roseland gets its own volunteer Community First Responder

Jane Lovett has recently qualified as Community First Responder (CFR) for the Roseland Peninsula. Jane moved to St Just in Roseland almost four years ago. She practised medicine for the last 40...

Roseland Festival 2024 – events selling out

The Roseland Festival is proving as popular as ever. Within hours of the box office opening to Friends of the Festival the 2024 event had taken £5,000 in ticket sales making it...

Book reviews – March 2024 – Sallie Eden – The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura PearsonPublished by Boldwood Books, August 2023 Described as a “heartbreaking, beautiful, uplifting story, guaranteed to make you smile but also make you cry” it sounded...