Penwith Press Corps

25/01/2025

09/07/2024

Latest news from the Cornwall Culture Association shows more young people and schools are engaging in Cornish culture through writing, dance and music.

Gorsedh Kernow announces the winners of the
Young People Awards 2024
Gorsedh Kernow is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s awards.

The judges were delighted with the quality and variety of this year’s submissions, showing a sense of pride in Cornwall, its language, landscape, history, culture and people. It was very pleasing to receive an increased number of school submissions, from Connor Downs, Luxulyan, Madron Daniel, Menheniot, Mousehole, Penpol, Perran-ar-Worthal, St Mary’s Penzance, Trewirgie, Trythall and Troon, some of whom were entering for the very first time, as well as several good quality individual entries. Once again there were some wonderful entries from music ensembles led by Christine Judge of Cornwall Music Service Trust.

The winners are:

Yeth Kernewek/Cornish Language
over 7/KS2

Joint Winner individual – Anwen Knights for her booklet “What I like to do each month in Kernow” and Amelia Way for her Kanker Story
Highly commended - Lexi Pascoe for her Cornish phrase book
Whole Class winner - Sycamore class Luxulyan for their book of opposites

7 and under/KS1
Joint Whole Class Winners - Beech class Luxulyan for their counting book and Trewirgie Infants for
Winner Individual - Kenza Rose Jacob for her counting song in Cornish
Highly Commended - Harry Way for “My Cornish World“ and St Mary’s Catholic Primary School Penzance for the song “Ow Skyber yw Leskys”.

Dons Kernewek/Cornish Dance
Highly commended - Beech class Luxulyan for “Mr Martin’s Reel”

Ilow Kernewek/Cornish Music

over 11/KS3
Winner - Cornwall Youth Chamber Choir for Kana Kelyn

over 7/KS2

Winner - St Piran in Penwith for Gool Peran
Highly Commended - Perran ar Worthal for their song “Lost and Alone”; Troon for their song Mary Kelynack 9 miles a day and Madron for their harvest song
Commended - Connor Downs for their song about District Nurses; Luxulyan for “Cornwall my Home”; Mousehole for”Schooner Detective Theme”; St Mary’s School for “Cornwall my Home”and Trythall Class 2 for their Sea Shanty.

7 and under/KS1

Winner - Ash class Luxulyan for their daytime routine songs
Highly commended - Trewirgie infants for “A Song for our School” and Trythall class 1 for their song “Roaring Raging Sea”

Fylm ha Drama Kernewek/Cornish Film and Drama
Winner - Luxulyan Musical Theatre Club for “Going Places”

Studhyans Kernewek/Cornish Study
Whole School Winner - Penpol for their class work on Cornish Myths

Individual over 7/KS2
Winner – Scarlett Freckleton for her poem and artwork on Holywell

7 and under/KS1
Joint winners - Trewirgie for their A-Z of Redruth and Trewirgie Klub Kernewek for “Paloresow, a study of Choughs”
Commended - Kerra Tonkin and Martha Rendle for their Mousehole Myths.

Art ha desin ha diskwedhyans besyel Kernewek/Cornish Art and Design

Over 7/KS2
Winner - Lily-Jane Giles for her Kanker model
Whole School winner - Menheniot for their three arts projects.
Highly commended- Oak class Luxulyan for posters inspired by “Cornwall my Home”
Commended - Kaitlyn Elston and Jorgie Savidge for their posters on Cornish festivals

7 and under /KS1
Winner - Ash class Luxulyan for their Tales from Porth models
Highly commended - Lacey Pascoe for her booklet “Why I love Cornwall” and Trewirgie infants for their artwork on My Cornwall
Commended Trewirgie Y1&2 for their medals; Logan Bettison for artwork “Cornwall my Home”; Talia Keith for her poster on Dydh Trevithick and Bella Kneebone for her picture of an engine house

For further information, please contact [email protected]

08/05/2024

The movers and shakers along with the great and the good (interspersed with interlopers such as yours truly) were in attendance tonight at the the invitation of Penzance Council to watch the Annual Mayor Choosing Ceremony.

The erstwhile rebel with a cause - known to most as Stephen Reynolds - was re-elected as Mayor and Will Elliot reprised his role as Deputy with Bonnie Jackson and Penny Young taking on the duties of Civic Deputies.

As I wasn't in the 'cheap seats' I had to mind my p's and q's: I had the Mayor of Truro sat next to me and the Leader of Cornwall Council sat immediately behind me.

Like I said: interloper

10/03/2024

FROM OUR WALKING CORRESPONDENT
A Little Bit of Walking History revisited.
Stephen Graham (born 19th March 1884 and died 15th March 1975) was a walker, travel writer, essayist, novelist and he often described himself as a tramp or vagabond. For him if you’re not sleeping out, you’re not tramping and instead you’re taking a walking tour. He was a complex character with many books to his name but over time he has slipped into quiet obscurity. Recently an academic has published a biography of Stephen Graham which might bring him back into public attention especially as he lived an extremely interesting life and today would probably be called an adventurer. This short piece is having a quick look as Stephen Graham’s “The Gentle Art of Tramping” first published in 1927 with reprints up to 1931 according to the edition in the Morrab Library in Penzance, Cornwall.
According to the preface of his book he tells us that he wrote it in a Dalmatian village and in Ragusa, the most beautiful city in Europe in his view. You won’t find this Ragusa on the map today as the city is now called Dubrovnik. He has divided his gentle art into twenty-six chapters all of which are most interesting while being very much the view of a man who was a teenager at the time of Queen Victoria’s death and who fought in WW1. He starts by exploring exactly what a tramp is. You probably won’t be surprised to find out that he only refers to males such as a seeker who pays his way if he can. He includes “true Bohemians, pilgrims, explorers afoot, walking tourists and the like.” The key element is the relationship with nature, to beauty and life itself. The tramp needs to be aware of his equipment, care of his health, what to eat, how to cook on a campfire and how to sleep outdoors.
As far as the equipment of his day is concerned the boots, knapsacks and clothes have hardly any comparison with today’s kit but he and his fellow travellers survived well. The campfires and coffee pots were key elements in their rest stops and in some cases their survival. Whether to travel solo or with a companion was a matter of choice and our protagonist travelled extensively in Russia until the Bolshevik Revolution when his kind of adventure was not encouraged. Also, his view on England was that it was not good tramping country but fine for walking tours. This had perhaps influenced his views because when walking in Russia, other parts of Europe and in North America he was spending weeks if not months walking over thousands of miles.
There was a spiritual element in his travels and when talking about carrying books in his knapsack he argues that books can be too heavy to carry so a bible would be the ideal book as it would provide spiritual and mindful sustenance for the wanderer. At the same time there is an interesting lack of detailed content about money as even though he was avoiding having to pay to stay in hotels and inns he still needed cash for supplies and travelling over vast distances. We can only assume that his writings gave him enough revenue to undertake his extensive travels.

10/03/2024

What do you think about LiveWest's plans to replace Fountain Court with 21 affordable flats?

A housing association wants to replace one of Cornwall's tallest buildings with affordable flats.

07/03/2024

07/03/2024

The market will be reviewed when it opens.