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Tregenna Castle Hotel is sponsoring this year’s St Ives September Festival. The festival has an exciting line up and the hotel is delighted to once again support the local event.

There is no better place to bond with the family and experience a wonderful holiday time together than in one of the many Cornwall caravan parks, or caravan parks Devon,

The economic downturn has brought about many difficulties now facing the travel industry, and of course the height of summer is the worst possible time for disruption of holidays.

Not for profit writing group Telltales has this month launched a national fundraising campaign through www.wefund.co.uk to showcase and celebrate more creative writing talent in the next issue of their award-winning publication, The Parabola Project.

With A-list celebrities filming in Falmouth, as well as the popular Henry Lloyd Falmouth week due to start, the owners of a unique property in the town are looking to offer a bird’s eye view from their “Observatory Tower”!

Classic Cottages - the UK’s leading independent cottage holiday company and a specialist in the South West – introduces art as you don’t normally know it

If you want a holiday that is fun and low cost for the whole family there is only one answer, go camping, the perfect budget holiday for all.

Staff and residents at the award-winning Edenmore Nursing Home in Ilfracombe have welcomed a new 5- bed residential suite which has just opened.

Many people in Europe travel in the country and find some fantastic places and a survey showed that most recommend the vacations in Devon and Cornwall as being the most enjoyable days they have spent on holiday.

The one holiday that is climbing the charts in popularity is camping, not just for certain types of people, camping is for all.

The UK’s leading independent cottage holiday company, Classic Cottages, has launched a new section on its website to assist prospective homeowners in making the right decision when buying-to-let a holiday home.

Open casting for zombie thriller ‘World War Z’ being held at Truro School this weekend (16/17 July 2011)

Biographies and memoirs are no longer for the stars!

Poltair Homes has won an appeal to build 45 new homes on the outskirts of Padstow , Cornwall, with an exclusive offer for local residents for the first three months of sale. This development marks a turning point for the county.

The British craze for getting out in the open air has taken an upward turn, and is every bit as good as childhood days holidaying with parents, on a caravan park.

The tourism market is witnessing a big dip in bookings to holiday destinations such as Greece, Turkey, France and Spain, and a recent survey showed that there is a high level of interest in camping holidays

Camping is growing every year and a recent survey shows over 1.2 million people will choose camping as their main holiday as it offers value for money and, more importantly, freedom for all.

Local authors team up on new book revealing Cornwall's history through photographs

A caravan holiday ensures that you experience the tranquility and peace of your chosen region also having modern creature comforts.

Ten young people with physical disabilities will be feeling the wind in their hair when they skydive to raise vital funds for their charity Active 8. This amazing feat is being supported by Quality Solicitors Nalders.

With over 700 cottages properties across Cornwall, Dorset, Devon and Somerset, Classic Cottages highlights late availability on some of its most glorious coastal and country holiday homes this summer...

With foreign holidays averaging a staggering £1,500 many British families are choosing to take their annual vacation closer to home.

The West Country of the UK is now within easy travelling distance for many holidaymakers as major road improvements have helped to halve journey times to reach this beautiful area of Great Britain.

One of the largest ever known gatherings of Fin Whales in British waters has recently been observed by the charity MARINElife in the Celtic Deep, 50-70 nautical miles off the coasts of north Cornwall and south west Pembrokeshire.

With heavy cuts becoming part of our daily lives it has been an easy decision for the consumer to cut out exotic holidays abroad and has probably been the first item on the balance sheet to cut back on.

St Austell printers Francis Antony has printed 10,000 handbooks to celebrate the 21st anniversary of The Lost Gardens of Heligan.

The largest free festival of maritime music on the planet will burst into bountiful chorus on Friday 17th June as the 3-day Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival takes centre stage on the quays and in the bars of the South Cornish port town.

The reality of camping today is not pitching a tent in the wilderness, but enjoying the facilities offered which one would expect of a hotel so is it any wonder the French call campsites open air hotels.

A free falconry display will take place in the stunning grounds of Tregenna Castle Hotel on Wednesday 1st June.

Summertime is approaching fast and now is the time to start planning your holiday with your family. Weather forecasters are predicting that the UK is likely to enjoy a “barbeque summer”.

Cornwall conjures up thoughts of breathtakingly-beautiful sandy beaches, rugged cliffs and wild moorland – but it’s also a green paradise, boasting 70 magnificent gardens

A group of fearless fire fighters from Cornwall are training to conquer ‘Island Peak’ (Imja Tse) in Tibet’s Himalayas and raise thousands of pounds for three worthy charities.

It’s that time of year again, when thoughts turn to holidays, where to go, what type of accommodation, sun, sea and sand, or countryside and wildlife. Plenty of choices, but the British love affair will always be with camping and campsites.

2011 is a great year to visit any number of our well loved English beaches.

Community groups, charities and social enterprises throughout West Cornwall are being offered an opportunity to get together and learn some new skills at a free event being staged by Penwith Community Development Trust in Penzance next month.

St Ives Archive is holding a coffee morning focusing on the maritime and mining heritage of the town.

Tregenna Castle Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall has been featured in the Top 10 of Castles in Enjoy England’s Where To Stay Guide.

A family holiday only exists in its relatively fiscally fret-free and unflustered form for four years. Once school starts, costs mount dramatically and you’re holidaying with the masses at peak times.

Cornwall based 20/20 has successfully completed a large scale “way-finding” project for the Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro (RCHT).

According to Camping Magazine camping is now officially ‘cool’ because, apart from the already known benefits of freedom, value-for-money, great ambience, family friendly environment, there are now acknowledged to be many more advantages.

Two local businesses are giving their services for free to the Greenbank Fal River Festival this year. King Harry Ferry is organising the popular event and Winter Rule are managing the accounts.

The South West coast of England is one of the UK’s most popular destinations for tourism and year after year millions of tourists spend their holidays in Cornwall drawn by the weather, landscape and wealth of activities available.

Born out of nostalgia, for some people a camping holiday takes them back in time to when they were kids, a desire to rediscover some simple pleasures.

Cosrnish chartered accountants and tax advisers Robinson Reed Layton have raised nearly £1000 for the Cornwall Blind Association by taking part in Stride for Sight.

A Cornish design and build company has set its sights on delivering even more design and build projects by recruiting a new key player. Simon Thomason brings outstanding practical and design experience to 20/20.

The Cornwall Area of Outstanding Beauty (AONB) is sponsoring a day of this year’s Greenbank Fal River Festival. It is the second year running that the organisation has supported this popular local event.

Robinson Reed Layton is delighted to announce that Nick Skerratt has been promoted to the role of Manager in the Cornish accountancy firm.

Nalders has been selected as the only solicitors firm in Cornwall to join the UK’s first national legal brand, QualitySolicitors, as law firms around the country prepare for ‘Tesco law.’

Classic Cottages, the UK’s leading independent cottage holiday company, highlights a range of unique, fun and cost-effective ways to spend the Easter, Royal Wedding and May bank holiday extravaganza

Cornwall Council has approached the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change with a proposal to create the region as an ‘observatory’ for the mechanisms required for them to achieve their ambition as the ‘Greenest Government ever’.