Emma Ferguson
Head of Content and Reporter at The Packet
Head of Content for the Packet, covering news for the whole of Cornwall. Mum of one. News updates/personal ramblings.
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1 week ago |
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson
With Good Friday almost upon us, thoughts in Cornwall are turning to an annual tradition in Cornwall known as ‘trigging’. Each year crowds descend on Cornish riverbeds to dig for cockles on Good Friday - the only day of the year they are allowed to do it. The Helford River is a particularly popular spot, with the estuary around Helford and St Anthony a particularly popular location on the Lizard Peninsula, while Helford Passage is a favourite on the Falmouth side.
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1 week ago |
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson
The four-lane Kernow Slide reopens on May 24 despite being refused by Cornwall Council's planning department (Pic: Kernow Slide) Residents of a quiet hamlet in the countryside near one of Cornwall’s most loved woods are up in arms over a four-lane giant water slide opening for business again – despite being refused planning permission by Cornwall Council.
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falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson
4 1/1 The restaurant at a boutique hotel in West Cornwall has reopened after a £250,000 kitchen refurbishment. The six-week closure allowed a new kitchen to be installed at The Gannet, with the kitchen area reconfigured in the process. New facilities, designed and installed by Nelson Bespoke Commercial Kitchens, include a custom-made cooking suite, while the reconfigured kitchen now incorporates a large open pass so that diners can see the chefs at work.
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falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson
This weekend’s Spring Masked Ball has been cancelled The organisers of this weekend’s Spring Masked Ball have announced this evening that the event has been cancelled. Describing themselves as “absolutely gutted”, the team said that that ticket sales were too low to ahead and “we can’t with a clear conscience let you turn up to an event that's not everything we want it to be.” Everyone with tickets has been promised a refund.
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2 weeks ago |
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson
4 1/1 Just a week after a charity fundraiser from Cornwall appeared on The One Show the sad news was announced on the same programme that she had died. Brenda Pedley from Redruth spent the past two decades raising more than £200,000 for Cancer Research UK, even while undergoing treatment for her own breast cancer diagnosis.
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I've written about what it is like inside No. 10 - from canapés to the Love Actually staircase, and getting shouted at by a Downing Street police officer 🫣! https://t.co/odumRTX135
An exceptional night of theatre at the @HallforCornwall, with Stephen Daldry's re-telling of An Inspector Calls even more relevant today than ever. (And the staging is astonishing!) https://t.co/wwxA5GMoiq
There's still time to see the final night of The Nutcracker at the @HallforCornwall this evening - and I highly recommend it. A truly magical evening. https://t.co/64QhqiwU84
