Page 4 - Loe Pool News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In summer Loe Bar has yellow-horned poppy - Credit: Archant In 1807 HMS Anson was wrecked off the coast at Loe Bar. This ship was launched from Plymouth in 1781 and it fought in the Battle of Saintes near Dominica in 1782. It was subsequently strengthened and took part in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1807 it met its end when it broke its anchorage in Mount’s Bay and ran aground not far from Loe Bar. More than 120 sailors lost their lives and a memorial, commemorating their loss was erected at the south end of Loe Bar in 1949. The cannons which currently stand in Porthleven Harbour were salvaged ...

People have been asked to report any illegal fish traps they might found after a discovery at Loe Pool between Helston and Porthleven. Penrose National Trust's ranger team has put out a warning, after one was found by a family walking around the lake. It is not the first time that such traps have been discovered at the lake, after an otter was found drowned in one back in 2018. The rangers said: "We were recently alerted to a number of illegal fish traps set up off the north side of Loe Pool. "These have now been removed, but worryingly were the same design as the one which accident...