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The chair of the Transport Committee, Cllr Dudley Mumford, has said the Council is doing everything it is legally empowered to do to secure transpo...

School pupils in some of London’s poorest areas, including Hackney, Lewisham and Tower Hamlets, are to receive free breakfasts as part of an initia...

The islands’ Council is without a chief executive this morning following the announcement that Philip Hygate is to take retirement with immediate e...

The Commodore of the Scillonian Sailing Club says a grant from the Scilly Lottery will help get more young sailors out on the water. Funding of £1,...

Philip Hygate has been chief executive of the Council of the Isles of Scilly since 1992 and, when appointed, was the youngest in the authority̵...

The Council of the Isles of Scilly has announced that chief executive, Philip Hygate, is to take early retirement, with effect from 10 January 2013...

Eastlondonlines’ boroughs have the highest percentage of gambling losses in London despite being among those heaviest hit by unemployment, accordin...

Work to extend and redevelop St Mary’s harbour look unlikely to happen this summer, according to the project leaders of both the Penzance and Scill...

The advertisement for a new head teacher for the Five Islands School will appear in the Times Educational Supplement today. The job description say...

A local man has called the St Mary’s beekeeping community a ‘closed shop’ after no one would offer him advice on how to produce honey. Gaz O’Neil, ...

St Mary’s police have cautioned a local man for the supply of cannabis. The man in his 30’s had been charged with supplying around an ounce of the ...

Some deliveries of Tesco food to the islands were suspended last week, although the supermarket’s head office doesn’t appear to know why. The super...

St Mary’s could get new, high quality litter bins after the Council has heard these could be eligible for AONB sustainable development funding. The...

Mens Standings on Saturday Evening                             Ladies Standin...

Photos from the finishing line of Saturday’s Ladies Round 2  

Photos from the finishing line of Saturday’s Mens Round 1  

Photos from the finishing line of Saturday's Ladies Round 1

A St Mary’s gig cox thinks that the veteran’s race is becoming so popular, clubs may start specializing in the over 40s’ rowers competition. There ...

Gig weekend is living up to its reputation of being one of the safest and best behaved sporting events in the region. St Mary’s police say there we...

British International Helicopters can now plan for their future after Sainbury’s have finally been given the green light to convert the current Pen...

Planners have approved a St Martin’s residents’ creative plan to extend his home around a difficult granite boulder. Officers granted consent for a...

Photos from the finish line of this evening's Mens Veterans Race

Photos from the Ladies Veterans Race

Photos from the blessing and launch of the new Tregarthens gig

  As the results come in this afternoon East London Lines will be following the counting of the votes in the elections for London’s Mayo...

Toby Budd from gigrower.com website previews this year’s championships    

The 23rd World Pilot Gig Championships starts today. The atmosphere was good in town last night and by this evening there’ll be an extra 1500 peopl...

The Isles of Scilly are being featured all this month on The Travel Channel. The specially produced, seven minute long video was shot during the su...

The islands have a new Councillor. Gordon Bilsborough has been elected for a third time. He polled 255, while his opponent Mary Gibbs got 224 votes...

St Mary’s Women’s Institute members are voting on whether they should join a national campaign to ask the Government to invest more in recruiting a...