A warning has been issued to parents over a new 'stalkerish' tracker brought out on Snapchat that allows people to see exactly where their friends are. The new Snap Map enables people to see in real time, not only the town and street, but even the house the user is in. When you click it asks you to share your location in order to view the map and you then get the option to have your location shown to friends, everyone who follows you on Snapchat, or to be in 'ghost' mode so nobody can see...

Cornwall's historic and illustrious connection with smuggling is something that has seduced, inspired and bewitched locals and tourists alike. This has led local author, Terry Townsend, to publish his new book West Cornwall: Smugglers' Pubs'. We have been speaking with him about the area's criminal past. Cornishmen and women had little regard for central government during the golden age of smuggling, thought to be between 1750-1830, or for the central government and a remote King who imposed...

In just three weeks' time, the new plastic ten pound note will be formally unveiled. The launch event will be held on July 18, the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, who will become the only woman featured on the back of a note. It will offer the first opportunity to see the new polymer note ahead of its introduction into circulation in September. It is expected to cause a similar stir to the new £5 note when it was introduced in September last year. Read more: A new Marks...

Review by Richard Whitehouse Debbie Harry - icon, music legend and now Queen bee of the Eden Sessions. Striding onto the stage wearing bees on her head and a cape with the legend "Stop f***ing the planet" on the back it's clear that Debbie Harry and Blondie have lost none of their spirit. And launching straight into One Way Or Another it was clear that this was going to be the crowd pleasing set that everyone had been hoping for. And when you have a back catalogue which has...

Here's some Gouda news all cheese lovers can rejoice about. One Cornish cheese maker has seen its business mature nicely after picking up a deal with a classy supermarket chain - in the north of England. The Cornish Gouda Company in Lanreath was only created in 2012 when Giel Spierings, then aged 19, came home to his family dairy farm from college to find a 'For Sale' sign on the gate. The farm was no longer profitable for his parents to continue to run the business they had moved from the...

It's always one of the most colourful days of the year, and this year's Mazey Day celebrations in Penzance promise to be no exception to that rule. Costumes, giant puppets, drinking hats and dancing shoes will fill the streets in west Cornwall, and we will be there to bring you all of the fun and festivities. Our reporter Tom Gainey is at the heart of the celebrations, as is our photo journalist Greg Martin, and they will capture the atmosphere of a uniquely Cornish day. Read more: Mazey Day...

Meet the A&E doctor behind the smallest vacuum cleaner in the world now hoping to bring rat-catching into the 21st century with a humane electric pest control innovation. Dr Toby Bateson, an emergency doctor at Royal Cornwall Hospital, has designed RatMat which he describes as the world's first humane electrified rodent repellent flooring. The local inventor and entrepreneur is aiming to raise £65,000 through the New York-based global project fundraising platform Kickstarter to...

West Cornwall is rejoicing as Mazey Day madness is already kicking off in Penzance. The Saturday event of the midsummer Golowan festival is considered by many to be the finest day of the year - and who can blame them, especially when you see 2017's line up. Mazey Day, launched each year by the Mayor of Penzance and the Mock Mayor of the Quay, is the centrepiece of the festival, in which artists, schools and other community groups fill the streets with music and giant sculptures in a series...

From bomb hoaxers to TV licence dodgers, magistrates in Truro have dealt with a wide variety of cases in the past few weeks. Other charges considered by the bench have included assault, drink driving, speeding and driving without insurance. Here is a list of some of the cases heard by magistrates in the city in the past two weeks: ROBERT SHANE BURNS, 45, of City Road, Truro, was found guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court on June 14 of assaulting Cons Michael Ayepe, a community support...

Police are seeking the help of the public to search for a 36-year-old missing man from Penzance. Adam Dickinson-Knight was last seen wearing shorts (possibly a beige colour), a red and black Quiksilver cap, sunglasses and brown ankle boots. Read next: Is the fine layer of yellow dust covering Cornwall cars coming from the Sahara Desert? Adam is described as a white, 36-year-old male with short mousy brown hair with some grey. He is around 5ft 4in tall and of a medium build. Police say...

Have you noticed a fine layer of dust appearing on your car today? Here at Cornwall Live HQ in Truro, several vehicles in the car park have been coated with a mysterious layer of yellowy dust this afternoon. The cause could well be sand travelling thousands of miles from deserts far away - the strange scenario has played out a number of times before in Cornwall and across the UK and is usually put down to an unusual phenomenon which sees sand in the Sahara Desert get sucked up into the...

A jealous ex who sent threatening messages warning that he would kill and get other men to rape his former girlfriend was also found in possession of an arsenal of James Bond style weapons which included tasers disguised as torches and mobile phones. Ashley Grenfell, 30, formerly of Close Hill in Redruth, appeared at Truro Crown Court today to be sentenced for one count of harassment, three counts of being in possession of prohibited weapons and three disguised firearm possession...

A former soldier who smashed a glass over another man's head so hard that flying fragments injured two other men standing nearby has narrowly avoided a prison sentence. Steven French, who was medically discharged from the British Army after completing tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, appeared at Truro Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to one count of causing grievous bodily harm and two assault occasioning actual bodily harm charges. The court heard how on September 10 last year...

Premier Inn has revealed plans to build a new 83-bed hotel in Newquay. The chain, which is the UK's largest hotel group, is hoping to construct a four-storey building on the site of the former St. Brannocks and Tolcarne hotels on Narrowcliff. The site above Tolcarne Beach was cleared in 2008 following the demolition of the hotel buildings and is currently used as a temporary surface-level car park. Read next: Mayfield estate police drug raids in Newquay see class A and B drugs seized and...

A thug who savagely bit off the ear of another man during a late-night brawl has been sentenced alongside three accomplices who rained punches and kick down on the victim as he lay on the ground. Nathan Flower, Christopher Cray, Samuel Hunt and Samantha Ager all appeared at Truro Crown Court today to receive their punishments for an attack carried out in St Austell town centre on Miles Gardner on February 11 of this year. Flower, 24, of New Molinnis, Bugle, admitted one charge of wounding,...

After months of waiting for Marks and Spencer to open a new store in Cornwall, the upmarket retailer has given the opening date for his new food branch in Wadebridge.The store will be part of a new BP garage at Tregoning, Wadebridge's only petrol station, which is located on West Hill. The current deal with Shell will end and BP will also include a small M&S food outlet on the site, creating new jobs.Read more: Man on the run after burglary in BudeThe staff are now in their final month of...

Cornwall's largest colleges and only university want to reassure students and staff that a tragedy like that at Grenfell Tower could not happen here. Truro and Penwith College, Cornwall College and Falmouth University have all had a look at their estate to see if the buildings they own were clad with the same controversial material found at the high rise flats in West London. The review follows the one carried out by Cornwall Council on the only high rise tower block in the county at Park...

Thousands of people have been told to contact Hotpoint urgently after police revealed the Grenfell Tower fire was caused by a faulty fridge-freezer manufactured by the company. Last week the devastating fire ripped through a West London tower block killing up to 79 people. Read more: This is why diggers were moving tonnes of sand from the dunes at Perranporth In the days since the tragedy struck, the country has been gripped by the herculean recovery effort and political...

A hobby beekeeper has asked for people to look out for his bees after his colony buzzed off because the weather was too warm. Barry Kirkman had just housed the swarm in a new hive in his garden only to see them buzz off three days later, never to be seen again. The beekeeper feels the hot weather conditions may have triggered the colony he had in his Tamar Valley garden to swarm and up-sticks for better climes. Read more: New fast food delivery service will bring McDonald's to your door The...

A man was kicked off the BBC's Question Time debate on air amid angry scenes in Plymouth last night. The audience member is thought to be only the second person in 20 years to be told to leave on air for shouting at a minister and being too rowdy. The man, dressed in a distinctive shirt, continued to shout over people and the panel until host David Dimbleby lost his patience, the Plymouth Herald reports..Read more: The nationals need to stop patronising quaint old Cornwall with their tired...