Cornwall's most expensive roads of the decade have been revealed.
Cocklawelva in Rock, Wadebridge, took the title of Cornwall ’s priciest road between 2010 and 2020 after houses sold for an average of £2.39m during that period.
St.Mawes in Truro was home to the greatest number of prime homes. Three of the five most expensive roads in Cornwall were located there, with homes in Castle Drive selling for £2.38m between 2010 and 2020 to take second place.
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A couple who lost their baby 19 days after he was born are calling for more awareness of a common infection that cost their son his life. Craig Pollard, 37, and Sarah Doolin, 34, from Cornwall, suffered every parent's worst nightmare last month when baby Ezrah suddenly became very poorly without warning.
Initially restless and grouchy and missing a feed, he started grunting and his temperature rose quickly. The couple contacted 111 and were told to wait for an ambulance. But, an hour later, they called 999 only to learn one was not coming. They drove Ezrah to A&E themselves.
Craig, from St Martin near Helston, said: "Once we got to Treliske his colour had gone and he had become mottled. They told us if we waited half an hour he would’ve died at home.
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Plans for a new home have been approved despite concerns that it would be too large for the plot and “overbearing”. Cornwall Council’s central sub-area planning committee granted planning permission for the new property in Porthpean Beach Road, St Austell.
Outline planning permission had previously been approved for a new home to be built on the plot and the new application was seeking full permission for a detached property with an integral garage.
St Austell Bay Parish Council had objected to the application along with local Cornwall councillor James Mustoe. They agreed that they believed the new home would be too large for the plot and too close to neighbouring properties.
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A 'lost' Westcountry cave first discovered by a Cornishman which helped to rewrite the textbooks on the history of mankind, has been rediscovered.
Bench Bone Cavern, which contained the bones of an Ice Age man and extinct woolly mammoths, was said to have been quarried away long ago. It was one of four caves in Torbay, South Devon where the earliest bones of modern humans in Europe were found by the great Victorian Cornish scientist William Pengelly, who was described by some as one of the earliest fathers of archaeology.
The cave has now been found again after amateur historian Darren Murray set out to find it again and succeeded. He said he was astonished to find part of the structure still exists, high up on a cliff face, on private land near Oxen Cove. He told DevonLive : "The cave is still visible and walled off. It's fantastic. Inside it there will be evidence entombed of Cavemen and huge, wild ice age mammals living and occupying the area around Brixham Harbour.
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One lane of Cornwall's biggest roads was closed after a tractor lost its trailer today. Traffic management site Inrix reported that one lane on the A30 eastbound had been closed since 6.55am after a tractor and trailer were said to have overturned near the A3076 junction and Mitchell turnoff.
A spokesman for Inrix said: "One lane is closed and traffic is slow due to an overturned tractor on the A30 Eastbound after A3076."
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A van has become stuck on a Cornish beach as a group of people try desperately to free it from the sand.
Captured on video, half a dozen people are seen in quite the spin - trying to free what appears to be a blue Volkswagen Transporter van from Porth Beach - in Newquay. One witness described it as 'embarrassing' after 20 minutes had passed and the people had made no progress.
She said the vehicle became stuck around 3pm this afternoon (April 14) and that any outside parties helping "had pretty much walked off and left them to it". She said: "They've been stuck for around 20 mins trying to drive around the cars." It was later retrieved with the help of a tractor.
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