• Tesco and Wetherspoon to expand in Newquay

  By lulu289

  Can't be a bad thing

            

   

  By newquaypeople at 12:37 on 22/02/12

  

  Superstore Tesco is lined up to sign a deal this week to take over the Buzios bar on East Street into a second express store - with the first being on Narrowcliff as you drive into the town.  ​These plans are understood to be separate from the large supermarket it wishes to build on land belonging to Tretherras School.  National pub chain JD Wetherspoon are planning to open their second bar in...

• Newquay Safe partnership awarded £99,000

  By lulu289

  Great news, they could have rounded it up to a nice 100,000 though couldn't they! :-)

            

   

  By newquaypeople at 10:31 on 17/02/12

  

  The Newquay Safe partnership which helps to keeps the Newquay streets crime free has been awarded £99,000 from the Government.  The Home Office has confirmed Newquay Safe is to receive the money following a successful application to the Home Office's Community Action Against Crime Innovation Fund. The money will pay for street marshals during peak season in the town.  Members of the Newquay Safe partnership team...

• Major national trading chains are expanding in resort

  By josdave

  Why so many supermarkets? They are increasing the blandness of shopping centres up and down the...

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 08:01 on 22/02/12

  

  TWO OF the UK's biggest national chains are set to expand their operations in Newquay. Tesco is expected to sign a deal later this week to convert the Buzios bar on East Street into a second express store. It is understood that the deal will not scupper any of its plans for a large supermarket on land belonging to Tretherras School, or its current express store on Narrowcliff. Tesco is still in negotiations with Tretherras over the...

• Alarm at plan for 3,400-home eco-town

  By poldice

  SUPPORT!!! they cannot possibly be serious can they??? There is a current equally unacceptable...

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 08:00 on 22/02/12

  

  A TOWN "bigger than Padstow" could be built on farmland near Truro, concerned villagers have discovered. A 142-hectare plot close to Degembris and Nancmear farms, between Mitchell and St Newlyn East, has been identified as a possible site for a self-contained eco-community of 3,398 homes. The proposal forms part of Cornwall Council's 'core strategy' – a blueprint for future development in the county and currently the...

• Drug arrests hit a five-year high in 2011 as police 'more proactive'

  By shagrats

  If the aim of this is to lower drug use and sale of ilegal drugs within the population then this...

            

   

  By Cornish Guardian at 08:00 on 22/02/12

  

  POLICE officers in Newquay have arrested 747 people for drug offences since 2007 – almost double the number for Bodmin and over 100 more than in St Austell. Statistics revealed to the Cornish Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act show there were 187 arrests in the resort in 2011, the highest in the past five years. The total for Bodmin since 2007 was 415, while raids and spot checks saw 633 people collared in St...

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