The Latest Breaking News from Cornwall

From sunny novels that revel in the picturesque to stark reports from one of the poorest regions in northern Europe, this county’s literature deserves more than a visit

Each Sunday I cook a meal for 20 people. I don’t have 20 friends: this meal is for the guests of the Street Food Project in Penzance. Its remit to is provide a hot meal 365 days of the year to anyone who needs it, and it has never failed…

Britain’s soggy summer is enough to make you give up and head to the Med. Yet families are happily splashing around on the beach in St Ives

The child drowned in a swimming pool at Atlantic Reach Holiday Park in Newquay, Cornwall on Monday afternoon

Jane, 62 and Abdel, 60, met in a small Berber town while she was travelling in Morocco in 2005. They married months later, and now split their time between Tafraoute and Cornwall

Our photojournalist samples short walks along the new 87-mile route which hugs the border of Cornwall and Devon

A five-year-old boy reportedly died hours after arriving on Monday with his family

Robin Caliskal was in water with family just an hour into holiday at Atlantic Reach holiday park in Newquay

It is holiday season in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, which means ice cream, pasties and social anxiety. There are Facebook posts about parking infractions; laughter at cars left on beaches to drown (curiously not everyone seems to understand tides); the annual appearance of a basking shark at Porthcurno,…