190521 | Let your garden go wild to help bees and butterflies
Let your garden go wild to help bees and butterflies
I’ve always thought of my garden as rather messy, but actually, it’s pretty environmentally-friendly, with loads of daisies like this, for starters … read more »
190521 | Queueing traffic on A30 HAYLE BYPASS HEADING TOWARDS PENZANCE - HAYLE
190520 | Swarm of bees smother car after 'moving house' in ASDA car park
190516 | Help to Buy home available – 5 Ellis Meadows Connor Downs Gwinear-Gwithian - Gwinear-Gwithian Parish Council
Friends of the Towans – Butterfly Management
Ranger Martin Rule will bring tools, gloves, tea, coffee and biscuits, but please make sure you bring some lunch and appropriate clothing and footwear suitable for working in the exposed Towans’ environment.
(All Friends of the Towans events start at 10.00am and run until about 2.00pm.) read more »
Friends of the Towans – Botany Walk
Colin carried out a survey of Godrevy Warren last year and will share some of his vast knowledge of the area’s plants with us. We may well head up around the headland as well. Meet in National Trust (NT) car park at Godrevy (the one with the main cafe) at 10.00am on Thursday 30 May 2019. Fee payable for non-NT members. Likely to finish 3.00pm or later.
Ranger Martin Rule will bring tools, gloves, tea, coffee and biscuits, but please make sure you bring some lunch and appropriate clothing and footwear suitable for working in the exposed Towans’ environment. read more »
2019 | Hayle Outdoor Swimming Pool
2019 Season
This year the Hayle Outdoor Swimming Pool season will be extended to include the summer half-term holiday and weekends in June. The pool will open on Saturday 25 May 2019 for the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend and the half-term holiday week and then weekends until it opens daily from 29 June 2019.
Opening hours are from 11am to 6pm, weather permitting, until Sunday 8 September 2019. We can confirm that entrance prices have not been increased for the sixth year in a row and once again season tickets will be available to purchase. read more »
190520 | New GWR timetable Devon & Cornwall will see regular half-hourly local stopping services between Plymouth and Penzance
TRAIN services between Plymouth and Penzance are set to double today (Monday, May 20), as part of Great Western Railway’s new May timetable.
To be operated by new Intercity Express Trains and refurbished Castle Class trains, which GWR says offer more seats and greater comfort, the new timetable will see regular half-hourly local stopping services between Plymouth and Penzance, doubling the frequency of off-peak services. read more »
Brown-banded Carder Bee (Bombus humilis)
Brown-banded Carder Bee
Bombus humilis read more »
Moss Carder Bee (Bombus muscorum)
Moss Carder Bee
Bombus muscorum read more »



