Prince Charles
in clay country
PRINCE Charles is to visit Cornwall on October 30. He will call in at St Dennis, near St Austell, to launch YP2-Clay, a project aiming to motivate young people in the Clay Area.
He is then to travel to the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, and the Padstow Seafood School where he will meet proprietor Rick Stein and representatives from the South West Mackerel Hand Liners Association, the Marine Stewardship Council, WWF and the Cornish Fish Producers. Marine conservation and other topical fishing issues will be discussed.
Farmers can stay
on their tractors
FOLLOWING a vote in the European parliament earlier this week British farmers look set to win an exemption from the new EU health and safety rules which could have kept them off their tractors at harvest time.
Moves were being made to restrict farmers to driving tractors for only two hours a day, because of their exposure to vibration. After the vote it was said by South West Euro MP, Glyn Ford, that the MPs had won a significant battle towards exempting the farmers from rules ill suited to their needs. He said the legislation had stemmed from a need to protect those operating vibrating power machinery of all kinds.
Painter wins top
motor art prize
AN AMATEUR painter from St Austell has beaten off competition to win the fourth International Motoring Art Competition.
Paul Dove's painting 'The Duelists,' was judged by, amongst others, Sir Stirling Moss and Rowan Atkinson, to be the best out of the 255 entries from 18 different countries.
Paul won £2,500 and his work will tour the UK, visiting most of the Maserati dealerships in the country.
Bones alert
POLICE were alerted on Monday afternoon after a resident of Fore Street, Polruan, discovered bones while digging in his garden.
It was thought the large bones may be human. However, when the police called in a vet to investigate they were identified as animal bones. They included part of a horse, and a number of domestic pets.