Launceston Millennium Badges are being produced in a partnership between Launceston Lions and Launceston Town Council. The badges which are based on one originally given to the town in the early 1900s, are being sold for £1.50 each.

A vandalised VE day memorial bench has returned back home to Launceston Castle green — thanks to the kind donations of local organisations.

Dramatic happenings are coming Bude’s way this month. The rich history of the resort is being brought to life during August by a host of dramatic events organised by North Cornwall District Council’s museums service in partnership with Bude’s new community theatre company, ‘Watershed Theatre’.

Bude’s Mike Foster is to represent Great Britain in the World Transplant Games next month just fie years after being at death’s door. Next year, Mike, who must be one of Cornwall’s fittest men, will also take part in the London Marathon for the third time and represent his country in the European Heart Games in Norway. Following a heart transplant after his worsening illness five years’ ago, Mike vowed to get himself fit as a fiddle.

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Hughie Dennett, 73, a registered disabled person, arrived in Launceston last week with his dog Fudge, on his way from Land’s End to John O’Groats.

The new changing rooms at Kensey Vale Bowling Club were opened by the county president Mr Len Matthews.

Mrs M Edwards, president of Bridgerule Revel Week, crowned the Revel Queen, Katherine James, in the village hall on Monday. Her attendants are Simon James and Paul Cholwill.

The 54th annual Horticultural Show of St Gennys and district was held last Friday afternoon at the Royal British Legion Hall.

Development of an industrial estate at Trebursye would be doomed to failure, a public inquiry at Launceston heard on Tuesday. St Thomas Parish Council chairman, Iain Gordon also claimed there were serious doubts as to the economic viability of the estate proposed by North Cornwall District Council.

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Mr and Mrs Reg Littlejohns, of Higher Treween, Altarnun, were surprised on Wednesday afternoon when a young man, obviously shaken and upset, came to their bungalow and asked if he could telephone for assistance. They were even more surprised when they discovered that he had just walked away from a light aeroplane which he had force-landed in a nearby field.

Sue Davis was elected Marhamchurch Revel Queen by schoolchildren of the parish. Elected as her maiden were Wendy Dennis, Jean Pollard, Kathleen Pyle and Linda Ridgeman, with Ian Moyle as Marshal and Robert Heywood as Page.

Angela and Peter Gliddon won nine prizes between them in the children’s classes at the annual Tetcott Horticultural Show.

Gavin Hopkins, Judith Molloy and Jeanette Sweet won the fancy dress classes at a summer fete organised by Delabole Church Youth Group

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Gunnislake’s annual carnival week was officially opened on Saturday by Mrs C E Underhill, of Callington, in the public hall. Mrs Underhill crowned the carnival queen, Miss Ann Venning, and her attendants, Misses Gillian Sleep and Heather Venning, with Miss Gwenda Knot as fairy queen.

The seventh annual Stratton Combined fete took place on Thursday at Rockbank. The St Andrew’s ringers rang a peal as the queen, Miss Janet Francis, and he two attendants, Valerie Fox and Julia Pocock, led by Stratton town band, marched in procession to the fete field where a large crowd gathered to greet her.

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Passing visitors discovered a fire in an office of Trehane Quarry, Davidstow, on Sunday. The office is used as a store for a large quantity of rubber “cats eyes” and tar belonging to Cornwall County Council.

This year’s Callington Show was the most successful ever. The treasurer, Mr G C Libby, reports that even though admission at 2s 6d was 1s a head less than the previous year the gate takings were higher than ever before — well over £500.

Cornwall River Board at their quarterly meeting at Launceston on Friday gave details of a £16,000 scheme to stop flooding in the valley of the River Amble near Wadebridge.

After hard work for more than six years, the people of Bratton Clovelly have provided themselves with a parish hall and on Saturday it was opened by the Mayor of Okehampton. The total cost is estimated at £1,200.

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Killed in action: Major F J Colwill, Hartland. Died of wounds: Pte M J Luke, Wadebridge; Cpl H Durham, Hatherleigh. Missing: Sgt Flt Engr E Beare, Wadebridge; Pte J H White, Delabole. Wounded in action: Pte C J Rapson, Hillside Farm, St Stephens (for the second time).

Pte Samuel Ernest Cann (the Devonshire Regt), of Launceston, has been awarded the Military Medal for gallant and distinguished service in Burma. Lt John Narborough Corlett (RASC), whose home is at Bude and who was wounded three times in the defence of Kohima, has been awarded the Military Cross.

Sir George Knight, a native of Delabole an old boy of Camelford Grammar School, is to be vice-president of the 1945 Methodist Conference. He conducts a successful drapery business at Bournemouth.

Launceston and district war savings target of £125,000 in “Salute the Soldier” week has been smashed, with a final total of nearly £140,000.

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A veteran wrestler, W J Saundrey, of Port Isaac, staged a remarkable comeback in the St Kew wrestling tournament on Saturday. He reached the final before having to retire through injury to B Chapman of St Wenn, the Cornish champion.

On a Sunday School outing to Polzeath, Gilbert Newman, an employee of Mr Hancock, Drinnick, South Petherwin, was hit on the head by a cricket ball and is now in hospital.

Out in a rowing boat at Gunnislake, Mr D Scott and his sister, Miss B Scott, got too near Weir Head and the boat went over the weir Miss Scott had to receive medical attention.

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General Bramwell Booth founder of the Salvation Army has been touring Cornwall.

Mr J Barton, aged 72, who died at Stratton on Monday, was for 45 years headmaster of Stratton Day School. A lay reader, he was a great worker for St Andrew’s Church and Sunday Schol, was secretary of the local Foresters, the Stratton Institute, Stratton Trade Association and many other bodies and was well known as a press reporter. His successor as mast of the day school is his son-in-law, Mr G O Durston.