HMS Cornwall
set to return
HMS Cornwall will return to Devonport Naval Base on Monday after almost seven months. The Type 22 frigate, which sailed from Plymouth to the Gulf of Oman last September, had her time in the region extended following the terrorist attacks on the USA.
Commanding Officer Captain Steve Kirby, said: 'This has been a long and immensely successful deployment. Yet again the Royal Navy has shown that when there is a job to be done we are ready, willing and able to achieve it.'
HMS Cornwall is affiliated to the Cornish Times and has been receiving copies of the paper throughout its mission.
Fears for
missing woman
POLICE have expressed concern for Trudy Pearn who has been missing from her Camelford home since 1pm on Monday. The 54-year-old mother failed to meet a pre-arranged lift, which was to take her to work in Bodmin. Detective Chief Inspector, David Dunne, said on Wednesday, 'It's cold, it's wet, it's raining out there. We are doing our best to try to find her.' The Police investigation is being assisted by Detective Superintendent Chris Boarland, who is still hunting the killer of Lyn Bryant who was murdered on the Roseland Peninsula in 1998, and the murderer of Exeter teenager, Kate Bushell. DCI Dunne stressed Mrs Pearn's disappearance was not being linked to the murders: 'This is a missing persons inquiry but we have grave concerns.'
MP in New Zealand
during hunt vote
SOUTH East Cornwall MP Colin Breed was out of the country for the House of Commons vote this week over the controversial issue of hunting with hounds.
There was an overwhelming vote for a total ban, but Mr Breed, who has the South East Cornwall Hunt in his constituency, has let it be known that he would have taken the middle path, and supported the continuation of hunting but under self regulation and with a licence. This stance was also taken by North Cornwall MP Paul Tyler.
Mr Breed, the LibDems' spokesman for Agriculture and Rural Affairs was with the DEFRA Select Committee in New Zealand, looking at the effect on the country's dairy industry since the removal of subsidies. He left on March 7 and arrived back this Wednesday.
Awards for Cornwall
THE Eden Project has won this year's Institution of Civil Engineers Merit Award for projects completed in 2001 in the South West region. The Tamar Bridge Strengthening and Widening Project and the Halgavor Bridge, also in Cornwall, were awarded Highly Commended Merit Award Certificates.