Tamar Bridge

delay for

John Prescott

DEPUTY Prime Minister John Prescott, who is also in charge of transport, had first hand experience this week of the delays endured by the thousands of motorists who cross the Tamar Bridge every day, as he headed for Plymouth.

Mr Prescott, hitting the campaign trail in his luxury coach on the second day of campaigning, was delayed on the bridge for 20 minutes arriving in Plymouth 45 minutes late for his half an hour whistle-stop stay.

1,000 Cornish smokers

die each year

NEW figures produced this month revealed that more than 1,000 people in Cornwall die each year as a direct result of smoking.

The statistic is among shock figures published in the annual report of the Director of Public Health for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

The report also shows work done to help people give up, which has seen 2,136 people join stop smoking schemes between 1999 and 2000.

Songs of Praise

from Eden Project

THE BBC's Songs of Praise is being recorded at the Eden Project on Saturday, May 26 from 2.30pm - 5.30pm.

There is free admission, but by ticket only, to both the sight and the programme recording, and the producers are looking for singers to join the combined choir. Anyone interested will be expected to attend two rehearsals.

Contact your local church for more information as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Star films new

offbeat comedy

MEN Behaving Badly star Martin Clunes has made a return to the picturesque North Cornwall village of Port Isaac to film a new offbeat comedy called 'Doc Martin', a prequel to 'Saving Grace', which he filmed there two years ago with comic actress Brenda Blethyn.

The comedy about a widow turning to marijuana farming when her husband's debts leave her penniless, used the village's coastal setting as a backdrop to the film.