Cornwall and Isles of Scilly County, England News

THE recession has wiped 50 million from the value of the taxpayers' stake in some of the biggest regeneration projects in the Westcountry, WMN London Editor Matt Chorley exclusively reveals.

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FIREFIGHTERS came to the rescue of a teenager who was trapped under a car in Bude last night.

POLICE hunting the yobs who started a fire that killed a mother of nine are trawling social networking websites for clues.

British police yesterday launched a murder hunt after a devoted mother of nine died saving her son from a house fire started by a firework pushed through her letterbox.

POLICE have opened a murder inquiry into the death of a mother of nine in a house fire that started when a firework was pushed through her letterbox.

A man has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for raping a 26-year-old woman in a park in Bodmin, Cornwall.

THE autumn is painter Catherine Hyde's most creatively inspiring time of year. Her glowing canvases, dark river and landscape scenes illuminated with ambers and golds, belong to this season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

The kidnap victim was not in court to see his abductor sentenced yesterday. Zeus, a giant African tortoise, had far more important things to do, such as eating to build up strength for winter.

A BRAVE mother died minutes after saving her bullied son from a house fire started by yobs who threw a lit firework through her letterbox on Bonfire Night.

A SCHOOL bus full of children was one of three vehicles involved in a smash that saw a woman rushed to hospital, police have confirmed.

Investigators are looking into whether a firework posted through the letterbox of a house could have sparked a blaze which killed a mother.

A 59-YEAR-OLD woman has died following a house fire in Cornwall. Emergency crews were called to the home on Wallace Road, Bodmin, at 7.26pm last night where they found the property fully alight.

A MAN convicted of killing a badger has protested his innocence and said he is considering an appeal.

THE battle over retaining specialist cancer services in Cornwall intensified last night when its five MPs united to demand a showdown with Ministers over the condition of the NHS in the county, writes the WMN's Petra Mann.

THE widow of a Newquay serviceman - killed when his Nimrod plane blew up in mid-air over Afghanistan - has claimed the Government has blood on its hands for putting budgets before safety.

IT'S been almost a decade in the making - but the moment St Austell's been waiting for finally arrived on Thursday, with thousands of people gathering for the unveiling of the new town centre.

A MAN snapped his wife's collarbone and even threw her Chihuahua puppy at her during a violent attack at their home, a court heard yesterday.

THE increasingly fractious battle to build a new ferry terminal in West Cornwall has taken a further twist with campaigners lodging a formal complaint against Cornwall Council, writes the WMN's Lyn Barton.

A TEENAGER has been banned from living in Plymouth after he grappled with his mother on the floor of her pub, threw barstools around in a rage and tried to fight customers.