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Conman jailed for four years
A BUSINESSMAN from Newquay has been jailed for four years after selling a fake business over and over again.
William MacIntyre, aged 54, sold the business, which consisted of an electronic database which cost him £430, for up to £40,000 at a time.
He was jailed at Plymouth Crown Court this week after admitting three counts of fraud and three of deception.
The fraud cost victims a total of
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Rugby starlet in cliff plunge
A promising young rugby player from Yorkshire fell to his death after an organised pub crawl in Newquay.
Andrew Curwell, 18, was on his first visit to Newquay when he stumbled over a garden wall by a high cliff in the early hours of June 28 last year. Apparently lost as he searched for his
mislaid wallet, and after drinking alco-pops, beers and chasers on a paid-for pub crawl, he lost his footing and fell 100 feet.
An inquest in Truro heard
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Ladies make county finals
NEWQUAY Rowing Club once again put on a grand show with the first of the two major county gig championship weekends - the harbour hosting the 33rd Ladies and Junior gig competitions over two wet and changeable days.
And local gig supporters had plenty to cheer about as their women’s A crew fought through the three rounds of competition to reach the finals with the B crew just missing out on a semi-final place by a single second.
In total 93 ladies crews from across
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Diggers in to create badger homes
Mechanical diggers moving onto Duchy fields raised queries over whether building work for a large development of houses and employment space had begun.
But instead of homes for humans, the developers are building an artificial badger sett, especially for the creatures currently in residence on the 10-acre site owned by the Duchy at Tregunnel Hill.
Outline planning permission was granted in
...Sisters' death crash a mystery
A ‘horrific’ crash which claimed the lives of two well-liked Newquay area sisters happened “for reasons we will never know”, an inquest heard.
Carol Jiggins, 60, and Janis Cusworth, 61, were driving along the A30 in their Rover on Wednesday, February 24 when they inexplicably swerved into the path of a fuel tanker. Both women were killed instantly.
Such was the impact that the distraught
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