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Four people face charges after police say a vehicle was stopped in Cornwall with eight people hidden inside. An ongoing joint forces investigation involving several forces including the Canada Border Services Agency and the Department of Homeland Security resulted in a vehicle being stopped on Tuesday. Police say it was travelling in the direction of […]
Article content Four people were arrested and charged with offences related to human smuggling after a traffic stop in Cornwall on Tuesday turned up eight individuals concealed in a vehicle bound for the United States. A media release from the Ontario Provincial Police on Jan. 8 said members of the force’s Border Enforcement Security Task […]
There was the briefest moment late on Sunday afternoon when, standing back from the easel, paintbrush in hand, I almost felt like an artist. What I had produced was by no means accomplished but I was beginning to see what it could become. It may sound like a modest achievement, but before signing up for a weekend Discover […]
The acting chief constable of Devon and Cornwall police, Jim Colwell, has been suspended pending an investigation into allegations of breaching professional standards. The region’s police and crime commissioner, Alison Hernandez, has made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which has confirmed it will investigate the allegations. Hernandez said she […]
I don’t remember when I first heard about Frenchman’s Creek. Not Daphne du Maurier’s pirate romance, but the house of the same name near the Helford River. An old stone cottage, the colour of clotted cream, that hides in the woods by a burbling stream. Perhaps I dreamed it? I stayed once, one winter, but […]
A few minutes into a “guided” walk along the new Tamara Coast to Coast Way, which roughly traces the border of Cornwall and Devon, my guide is looking sheepish. We’re standing in a grassy field flanked by overgrown hedgerows and with no discernible exit. I was promised a panoramic view of the Tamar river stretching […]