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...
Author: Lindsay Brooke
Gardening – April 2024 – Alison Agnew
Our resident gardening expert Alison Agnew has been out and about garden visiting. Sit back and enjoy as she takes us to sunny climes. Now is the best time to visit many...
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...
Anyone For Breakfast?
There has to be huge admiration for any amateur brave enough to get up and perform in front of an audience. But the Veryan Players seem to have those amateurs in abundance....
HERA remembered
Last month the Roseland marked the 110th anniversary of the loss of the Hera. The four masted sailing ship Hera ran aground off Gull Rock close to the coast at Nare Head...
Weather – Kernow Weather Team – February weather summary
What more can the Kernow Weather Team say about February’s weather – wet, wet, wet! At the time of writing there had been 121 mm of rain over the Duchy. Well, what...
Book reviews – March 2024 – Sallie Eden – The Last Devil to Die
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman Published by Viking 2023. Due for publication in paperback May 2024 The fourth in the Thursday Murder Club series, set in Coopers Close retirement village....
Gardening – March 2024 – Alison Agnew
“Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade”Rudyard Kipling Like many of us, our gardening expert Alison Agnew, has been struggling to find the will to face the weather and get...
Pendower Beach House Hotel – planning application, drop in session and public meeting
A revised planning application for the development of Pendower Beach House Hotel on Rocky Lane, has been submitted to Cornwall Council. Scaled back from the plans submitted in the original 2020 application,...
BeeMania – March 2024 – Colin Rees
Well, the weather hasn’t improved much over the past month. Today, as I am writing this there is a cold wind blowing and though the sun is shining, it’s bitter in the...