News

Tredethick Farm Cottages grows own fuel in back yard - Thursday 2nd February 2012

Guests at Tredethick Farm Cottages near Lostwithiel are now enjoying eco-friendly heating courtesy of a 200kW biomass boiler fuelled by Elephant Grass... Read more

Duchy Nursery wins 'best café' - Tuesday 10th January 2012

Duchy of Cornwall Nursery Café has won an award after opening only six months ago. The Nursery’s new building, shop, café and gardens were opened by the Prince of Wales in June 2011... Read more

Lostwithiel Advent Window Trail - Tuesday 3rd January 2012

In Lostwithiel each December a number of private houses and businesses take part in creating an Advent Window Trail, with a specially decorated window being lit up... Read more

Dental surgery wins best in the SW - Saturday 24th December 2011

Lostwithiel Dental Surgery has only been open in its new premises for 7 months but it has already won an award for Best Practice in the South West in the national Dentistry Awards... Read more

Stick of Lostwithiel reopens - Wednesday 21st December 2011

A year after the November 2010 floods which ruined many businesses and homes in Lostwithiel, the last shop affected has finally opened its doors again... Read more

Dickenisan Night in photos - Friday 16th December 2011

Despite Dickensian-style gloomy weather, hundreds of people turned out for the hugely popular Dickensian Night in Lostwithiel on 15th December. Shopkeepers and visitors alike wore Victorian garb to create a old-fashioned festive atmosphere to get people in the Christmas spirit... Read more

Dickensian Night 2011 - Thursday 15th December 2011

Get into the festive season with the ever popular Dickensian Evening on Thursday 15th December from 6pm. As ever there's late-night shopping and shopkeepers in Victorian garb, choirs, bands, craft stalls, baked potatoes, roasting chestnuts and lashings of mulled wine... Read more

BEST SECONDS - on the move - Friday 11th November 2011

Best Seconds is on the move... 21st of November. We have traded very successfully in the lovely Duchy Palace building which has been a great priviledge and now the grade 1 listed building is going to be restored for the benefit of the community which we fully endorse, we have even made a collection ourselves to go towards the costs of the renovation, thank you for your kind donations... Read more

Young Farmers Bare All For Charity - Friday 11th November 2011

Members of Lostwithiel Young Farmers Club have seen rather more of each other than usual recently. The club's latest fundraising scheme has seen members stripping down for the cameras to produce an extremely tasteful nude calendar... Read more

1940s day acknowledgements - Thursday 10th November 2011

By Frank Batchelor LOSTFEAST week (22nd – 29th October) gave the people of Lostwithiel and visitors alike an opportunity to partly step back in time and take a glimpse at life on the home front as it was portrayed during the 1940s... Read more