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Helston has a new councillor and he has plenty he hopes to tackle during his time in office. Guy Foreman was elected to the new Helston South & Meneage seat as one of just two Cornwall councillors for Helston, from the previous three, following a government boundary review reducing the number of councillors from 123 to 87. The division has taken the place of Porthleven and Helston West, and Helston South, as well as the old St Keverne & Meneage division that has been split – St Keverne now joining with Mullion. Both Liberal Democrat John Martin, who was Helston South councillor, and...

“It’s good to see, (customers) are all happy,” Mr Guthrie said. “We had four very big days … restocking the alcohol and restocking the food.” Andrew Guthrie with his wife Karen Guthrie and two of their five sons, John and Joshua. Picture: Heidi Petith Mr Guthrie, who has a son in the Australian Defence Force and another in the cadets, said the pub would “absolutely” be hosting its traditional 10am Anzac Day service on Sunday. “It means a lot to us,” he said. ‘We have enough food to feed at least 1000 people this weekend.” Andre...

Paedophile offered an eight-year-old boy money then sexually abused him Peter Webb, 71, was sentenced to a maximum of six and a half years in prison He abused the boy who was eight or nine at the time on a number of occasions On one occasion he took the boy to a pub with other men before he raped him  The judge said Mr Webb has, 'little to or no remorse for your shocking history' 

Mary Ann Weems gravestone at Godmanchester. - Credit: ARCHANT One of Huntingdonshire's oldest, and possibly, saddest ghost stories is the tale of Mary Ann Weems who is said to have haunted The White Hart pub in Godmanchester and also an area nearby at St Mary's Church where her remains are buried. In his book, The Haunted History of Huntingdonshire, Mark Egerton, describes how he first became aware of the story in the mid-1970s, but there was an update in 1985, when the then landlord of the pub reported "poltergeist activity". Mark Egerton published his book The Haunted History of Huntingdo...

posted on 16/03/21 For insight into what ‘global’ meant in times before globalisation, we have the Silk Road. A network of sometimes secure and other times fraught traders’ tracks crisscrossed 2,000 years of civilisation between the Mediterranean, India and China, and in the middle, the cities of Central Asia caught glimpses of the world on all sides. These cities and their transregional interactions across Eurasia gave shape to important phenomena, such as Sufism, the Mongol Empire, and Uyghur culture, and left their mark on world history.  This series explores key social, cultural an...