More visitors and

more staff for Eden

THE Eden project welcomed its 250,000 visitor at the weekend and this success has led to a recruitment drive at the attraction.

The project's latest recruitment campaign is targeting an increase of 70 staff to join the team on a permanent basis.

Already, 120 extra staff have been added to the original 150 and Eden is particularly keen to recruit people interested in covering peak activity between 10 am and 3 pm.

The Eden project – your say, page 5.

Cornwall to take

on Harlequins

CORNWALL will clash with Premiership rugby side Harlequins, at Polson Bridge, Launceston on Bank Holiday Monday (kick off 3 pm).

The side will use this match and the game against Warwickshire on Saturday, as warm up matches for the Tetley County Bitter Challenge against Yorkshire to be played at Twickenham, on May 26.

Woman dies

A woman attacked last week on a public footpath in Newquay has died.

Deborah O'Sullivan, 31 a hotel worker in the town, was found naked and suffering from severe head injuries on a footpath between Pentire Avenue and Atlantic Road last Thursday.

She was initially taken to the Royal Cornwall hospital, Treliske and later moved to Derriford hospital, Plymouth, where she later died.

Have your say

DEVON and Cornwall Police are inviting the public to 'Have Your Say' at the Caradon Police Liaison Meeting, on Tuesday next, May 8.

The venue is at Polperro Village Hall, The Coombes, Polperro, and the meeting begins at 7.30pm.

Hospital blaze

POLICE are anxious to speak to two men seen leaving the area just before a huge fire swept through a former ward at St Lawrence's hospital in Bodmin.

It is thought the blaze was started deliberately as the large Kendall building was empty - and there were no other sources of ignition. Such was the intensity of the blaze firefighters returned to the scene twice last Friday to tackle fires which had started up again.