Sir Bob at
the Festival
WITH this year's Daphne du Maurier Festival on the horizon a new website for Fowey - where the festival is based - is to be launched next week.
The Festival is to include an appearance by Sir Bob Geldof and his band, as well as The Blues Band featuring Paul Jones, poet Pam Ayres, Poldark author Winston Graham, and the author of Bridget Jones' Diary Helen Fielding.
The new web site for the Ticket Office and Tourist Information Centre at Fowey (http://www.fowey.co.uk">www.fowey.co.uk) will be launched on Monday.
Vessel is
still grounded
THE 6,000 tonne vessel, the Kodima, remains grounded on a sandbank in Whitsand Bay, after stormy weather during the initial part of this week made it impossible to refloat her.
The Kodima, which has 55 tonnes of marine diesel on board and 456 tonnes of fuel oil, will have to be stabilised before she is refloated - and probably taken to Falmouth. The adverse conditions up until Thursday meant that expert teams of salvors could only visit the ship for a couple of hours a day.
Waste facility
to go ahead
Plans to build a waste management facility on a 36 acre site at Lean Quarry, Horningtops, near Liskeard are now certain to go ahead following a decision by the Government to lift a direction on the county council which prevented consent being granted.
The Roseland Group of Companies welcomed the decision, issued yesterday, Thursday.
The County's Development Control Committee voted unanimously last September to allow the facility, but a holding direction from the Government Office for the South West intervened to consider if the application justified a public inquiry. Five months later this office has decided that an inquiry is not needed.
Village hall cash
Lanreath Village Hall has been given a £4,853 grant from the National Lottery's Awards for All programme. The money will be used to provide a new staging system for the hall, just in time for a planned comedy show on March 2.
Visitor Lawrence
FOLLOWING his agreement to become patron of Cornwall ScrapStore, TV Interior Designer Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen will be visiting their headquarters in Goonamarris, St Austell on Tuesday, February 19 at 12.30pm. ScrapStore has three sites, including one in Liskeard.
Yacht visits
A TOTAL of 6,287 yachts, with 18,000 people on board, visited the port of Fowey during last year. Of the yachts 191 were from France with 58 from Holland. Cargo through the port was better than anticipated, with the export of l,542,605 tonnes of china clay and import of 9,844 tonnes of slurry clay.