This couple got engaged in front of more than 40,000 people after agreeing to let Cornwall Live be part of their big day – by streaming the entire thing on our Facebook page.Most restaurant proposals are quiet, intimate affairs, but when brave Harry Winter decided to pop the question to his beautiful girlfriend (now fiancé) Lauren Philips, he decided that he wanted to do something a little different.After approaching Cornwall Live to help share the special moment with Lauren's...

Tomorrow is crunch day for thousands of A Level students in Cornwall who will find out whether their hard work has paid off. For many teenagers, the nail-biting moment they open the envelop will bring the results to send them on their way to college or university. However, for some, the path ahead will be more uncertain as perhaps their grades aren't good enough or they've just had a change of heart. The important thing to remember is that whatever happens you do have options and, if the...

Meningitis Now has urged young people to get vaccinated against meningitis after a 18-year-old from Bristol died after becoming unwell at Boardmasters festival last week.The organisation said that young people are entitled to a free ACWY vaccination, protects young people from four different strains of meningitis.School leavers who will be 18 on August 31 are being offered the vaccine at their GP surgery for the final year of the 'catch up' vaccination programme.First year university students up...

An 18-year-old who became unwell with meningitis while at Boardmasters festival has died, his sister has confirmed.George Zographou attended St Brendan's Sixth Form College in Bristol, which saw two cases of meningococcal infection last spring.Public Health England (PHE) revealed earlier today that it was investigating a confirmed case of meningococcal disease after the youth showed symptoms of the illness during the Newquay festival.George's sister, Nicole, shared a public post on Facebook...

A rare glowing crystal jellyfish that can eat other creatures larger than its own size has been spotted on Crinnis Beach in St Austell.The see-through jellyfish is said to be common in the northern Pacific Ocean but rare in UK waters.It can feed on bigger fish but the mysterious creature mostly eats tiny marine animals called copepods. According to the Cornish Rock Pools website, the crystal jellyfish stings its prey to catch it.However its sting isn't usually powerful enough to cause more than...

A pair of kind-hearted Cornish window cleaners, whose pride for where they live is inspiring, have taken on a series of clean ups - all for free. Dom Woolcott and Tom Stacey from Newlyn, who launched their business in October last year after many years working for a national chain, spotted a few unsavoury sights in the west Cornwall town and were determined to do something about it. It all started when the duo had an "hour to kill" on the morning of Wednesday August 9 and decided...

An 18-year-old who became ill with meningitis at Boardmasters is not expected to survive, his sister has confirmed.Public Health England (PHE) revealed earlier today that it was investigating a confirmed case of meningococcal disease after the youth showed symptoms of the illness during the Newquay festival.The young man attends St Brendan's Sixth Form College in Bristol, which saw two cases of meningococcal infection last spring.Read more: These are the symptoms of meningitis and what to look...

Two major purpose-built student housing schemes are to be discussed in detail in Penryn on Monday night.The application for 264 rooms within shipping containers at the former Home Shed site and the Penvose student village at Penvose are on the agenda for Penryn Town Council's planning committee.Andy Cook and Mark Dawes from CAD Architects will be giving a presentation regarding Penose, a controversial scheme on farmland at Treluswell to include up to 2,000 student rooms.The £170 million...

A couple whose son died of sepsis at just 29 hours old are trying to raise funds to help other families deal with the loss of their children.Mark and Hayley Jermyn of Penryn are hoping to buy special keyrings and teddies which help the bereavement process.Their son Charlie died in May 2015 after he was born in a toilet at their home in Penryn, but his sepsis was not spotted by a succession of healthcare workers.To compound their loss, an inquest, which recorded a narrative verdict, highlighted a...

A "serious incident" off the Cornish coast has left three people in hospital last night. A group of five people were caught in a rip tide at Crantock beach, near Newquay, just before 7.30pm. As local surfers rushed to help, the emergency services were called by an onlooker. Two lifeboats, the local Coastguard rescue team and a helicopter were called into action, along with police and paramedics. Read Next: Sailors plucked to safety after yacht sinks during Falmouth Week Two...

Elvis Presley is dead – the sobering headline on the mock newspaper front page runs alongside one of the worst photos I've ever seen of the King of Rock and Roll.It was 40 years ago today - August 16, 1977.When Robert 'Elvis' Wilkinson offered to show me the memorabilia inside his self-built Elvis-themed garden bar, I wasn't expecting something quite so morbid.He catches me looking concerned at the Daily Mirror poster, gives me a big grin and says "or is he?"Born in Hertfordshire...

Three sailors were plucked to safety after their yacht began sinking while racing during Falmouth Week.A race committee boat managed to pick up the trio from the water.They were taking part in the Carrick Fleet race on board an 18ft boat Myrtle on the final day of competition in Carrick Roads at the weekend when the incident happened near Governor Buoy.A spokesman for Falmouth RNLI said: "A yacht did sink whilst racing on Saturday. The three occupants were picked up by the Ionthe, the race...

Cornwall Live is launching a survey to find out people's experiences of mental health.The research, which has the support of Mind the mental health charity, aims to shine a light on what people in Cornwall are experiencing.National statistics say approximately one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year.Mind states that while the overall number of people with mental health problems has not changed significantly in recent years, worries about things like money,...

Residents of Par were furious last week to learn that Wainhomes had been successful in its application to build 103 new homes in the village. The community battled the application for months, claiming that the infant school and GP surgery were already struggling with the amount of people. Wainhomes was seeking permission to build approximately 103 dwellings, an extension to the parking for the Kingdom Hall, allotments, school drop-off facilities, footpath/cyclepath connection and associated...

Simon Parker considers whether it is either ethical or efficient to expect midwives, social workers and others in vital services to routinely work for nothing. If you are reading this in your lunch-time, consider yourself lucky. Why? Because across the region, more and more employees are coming in to work early, skipping tea breaks and dinner breaks, and leaving late, in order to prop up our essential services. Austerity, involving government cuts to frontline services, has resulted in nurses,...

The owners of a distinctive looking cat from Egloskerry have appealed for information in an attempt to find their pet. Alfie the cat has been missing from his home just outside of Launceston since Thursday (August 10). His owners have appealed for information and are desperate to get him home, particularly because Alfie is on a special prescription diet and can become unwell without it. Residents of Launceston have been sharing posts in an attempt to reunite Alfie with his owners. Read...

Well over 100 family members and friends have gathered this afternoon to bid a musical farewell to popular local photographer Keith Richards, who died last month.The funeral service celebrating the life of former West Briton and Helston Packet snapper Keith was held at Treswithian Downs Crematorium in Camborne at midday and it was a case of standing room only, a testimony to Keith's immense popularity in Helston and his home village of Porkellis.Keith, who suffered from Crohn's Disease from a...

The owner of a picturesque harbourside on the Lizard peninsula has been given a month to file the right highways application or remove his 'illegal' double yellow lines.Cornwall Council has written to the Harbour and Dock Company, owned by businessman Trevor Osborne asking him to follow the due process.It comes as the company has been in legal breach under Section 132 of the Highways Act 1980 over the painting of double-yellow lines in the centre of Porthleven last month.The move angered...

Hundreds of kilos of deadly ghost nets have been removed from a shipwreck off the coast of Cornwall. The James Eagan Layne sank in Whitsand Bay, South East Cornwall, during the Second World War. In the decades since, she had become wreathed in nets lost from fishing boats. They are called "ghost nets" because they carry on their silent killing of marine life and are a hazard for divers. Now divers have removed more than 100kg of deadly monofilament "ghost net" from...

A potentially lethal Japanese "superbug" which medics have said is "difficult to control" has not moved west to infect Cornish hospitals. A spokeswoman for the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust (RCHT) confirmed there had been no cases of the Candida auris (C. auris) which is at the centre of major outbreaks elsewhere in the country. A number of NHS trusts have been ordered to carry out deep cleans of all affected areas after more than 200 patients were found to be infected or...