How do you guarantee a UK holiday full of precious memories? By visiting our best gold and silver mines of course. Here you’ll delve deep into the history of mining, explore tunnels, pan for gold, learn fascinating facts about geology and our landscape – and buy (or find) treasure to take home. Head first to … Read more
Cornwall has overtaken London as the most popular British location among homebuyers searching online, it has been revealed. Rightmove said there were more than five million searches for properties in Cornwall in February alone, although how many people were actively planning to move there and what proportion were browsing is not known. The figure came … Read more
A police chief has demanded an extra 500 police officers to cope with the millions of staycationers who will descend on Devon and Cornwall in the summer after lockdown ends. Families across the country are already planning staycations and days out after Boris Johnson announced Britain’s roadmap out of lockdown. From April 12, Britons can stay … Read more
Cornwall – brace yourself. The places Britons are most desperate to visit once No10 lifts the lockdown have been revealed, and Cornwall is top of the pile. The ranking has been compiled by Big 7 Travel, which took suggestions from its team of travel experts and its 409,000 Instagram followers on the best destinations for … Read more
Fields of flowers are being left to rot in Cornwall because not enough pickers are available to harvest the crop following Brexit. The world’s largest daffodil grower, Varfell Farms in Penzance, Cornwall, produces 500 million stems a year and needs 700 workers to pick them. The crops are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and … Read more
Fields of flowers are being left to rot in Cornwall because not enough pickers are available to harvest the crop following Brexit. The world’s largest daffodil grower, Varfell Farms in Penzance, Cornwall, produces 500 million stems a year and needs 700 workers to pick them. The crops are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and … Read more
Gordon Ramsay has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at his neighbours in Cornwall. Various residents complained about his family spending lockdown 1 at their home on the coast last spring; and the TV chef, 54, has mocked them in a recent interview. Asked what he’s most looking forward to when lockdown 3 eventually ends, Gordon quipped: ‘Getting … Read more
Amanda Holden has said she is ‘devastated she had to break the rules’ after being reported to police for making a 215-mile trip from London to Cornwall in lockdown. The Britain’s Got Talent judge went to see her parents after she got a ‘distressing phone call’ from her stepfather Les Collister on the weekend before her 50th birthday. … Read more
Grab your single tickets to ride: The brilliant UK mini-breaks that put the interests and needs of solo travellers first (and there’s no sharing rooms with strangers!) One solos holiday takes in the incredible 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct on the West Highland Line, Scotland Cornwall is set to be popular again this summer – join in the … Read more
Card addressed to ‘somewhere at top of town’ in St Ives in Cornwall miraculously makes it to the right house Tracey Fitzharris, 43, received the card from her friend in Duror in Scotland The envelope was addressed as ‘Somewhere at top of town, St Ives, Cornwall’ On the back of the envelope, her friend had … Read more