Simon Coy and Pat Malone went to the Royal Geographical Society in London recently to receive a prestigious national navigation trophy from the Duke of Edinburgh.

Simon and Pat, both pilots, were awarded the British Airline Pilots Association Trophy for winning the South West area ‘TopNav’ competition, a national contest in which pilots navigate aircraft the […]

About sixty people attended a meeting in the Withiel Village Hall on Tuesday 12th May to discuss how different users of the local Forestry Commission land can co-exist harmoniously and continue to enjoy the woods in our neighbourhood. There have been concerns locally about the safety of walkers and horse riders who are now outnumbered […]

The Annual Parish Meeting was held in the Village Hall on May 6th, presided over by Parish Council Chairman Sue Kirkby and attended by members of the Council and 16 people from Withiel. The ‘state of the Parish’ reports from the various groups painted a picture of a community of active volunteers working for the […]

Jeremy Steventon Barnes, BT’s Network Director for Superfast Cornwall, and Julian Cowans, Programme Manager for Superfast Cornwall at Cornwall Development Company, came to Withiel on August 26 to explain why part of the parish is not getting a fibreoptic broadband service in the immediate future and to sketch out options for those of us who are among the deprived.

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