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Roseland Plan Update – November 2015

The Roseland Plan is very positive about provision of affordable housing through a Roseland Community Land Trust (CLT). There is a specific policy (Policy HO5) which ensures that such housing is built...

Gala Lunch To Aid Refugees

On Sunday 1st November over one hundred locals filled St Gerrans Church which serves small seaside and country villages on the Roseland Peninsula. The reason for the gathering was to raise funds...

Health, Naturally! – November 2015 – Sarah Greenhalgh

Oil Pulling Rosa Hughes, an inspirational lady who for years now has passed on ideas to improve one’s health holistically but also targets improving breast health. Rosa’s November campaign is the focus...

Writers Talking – November 2015 – Sallie Eden

Sallie Eden talks to writer Vanessa Matthews whose book The Doctor’s Daughter was reviewed in September Firstly, to set the scene: Vanessa moved to Cornwall in 2009, having, coincidentally, attended the same...

Gardening – November 2015 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

What a delightful and unexpected October we have experienced here in Cornwall! Hardly a drop of rain (at time of writing, anyway) and the most balmy daytime temperatures. The only reminders that...

Book Review – November 2015 – Sallie Eden

Carmen Zita og døden (the drowned boy) by Karin Fossum – Published in English by Penguin 2015 The latest in the series of Chief Inspector Sejer crime novels by Norwegian writer, Karin Fossum,...

Nature Notes – November 2015 – Sarah E Vandome

The harvest is in, the clocks turned back an hour and humans keep warm by staying indoors. Outside however, many organisms are preparing to survive the cold season head on, by conserving...

Book Review – November 2015 – Sallie Eden

Boys Don’t Knit (In Public) by T S Easton – Published by Hot Key Books in 2014 Ben Fletcher is the teenage son of embarrassing parents. He’s also an accidental and, frankly, hopeless...

BeeMania – November 2015 – Colin Rees

I don’t have much to report on my beekeeping activities this month as things have been very quiet. I have been extracting honey, of course, and the bees have been bringing in...

DVD Review – November 2015 – Mark David Hatwood

Amy – Documentary of Amy Winehouse by Asif Kapadia Every now and then, the world sees an icon grow out from the most impossible roots. All too tragically, though, the world they grow...