The Latest Breaking News from Falmouth

What stands out most about the book I’m carrying under my arm, as I meander through the exhibits at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, is its awkwardly large size. The Piscatorial Atlas, authored by Ole Theodor Olsen and published in 1883, contains 50 beautifully illustrated charts of the…

Surfing? It’s as Cornish as piracy and pasties. As a thrilling exhibition opens in ‘Britain’s California’, we enter a heady world of coffinboards, hotdogging Aussies – and bans dished out to gangs fighting on the beach

Heatstroke is a dangerous illness caused by heat and runners are at increasing risk as climate change creates more hot days

Porta Fortuna supplemented her determined victory at Royal Ascot with a dominant display in the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket

On Falmouth pier, volunteer angling coaches and men and women of all ages gather regularly for fresh air, companionship and the mindfulness that comes from casting a rod into the sea

Protesters call for an end to sewage discharges into all bathing and high-priority nature sites by 2030

Surfers and families vent their frustration with water companies after more news of poisoned drinking water and polluted lakes

At a noon meeting Tuesday, the Falmouth City Council voted unanimously to remove Mayor Sebastian Ernst on three charges. Ernst didn’t attend the meeting. He says the charges are frivolous and unsubstantiated.

Falmouth sighting of cross between common and striped dolphins thought to be UK first