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Page 24 of 24 News Bytes MAGA, the Cornish language project, has launched a new website. Designed to act as a portal for the language, the site is run by the Cornish Language Partnership. If you don’t yet know any Cornish, there are topical phrases included that you can hear as well as read, and you can also submit items for translation. The Mineral Tramways Heritage Project is looking for stories, anecdotes, images and memories from local people whose own lives – or those of their family members - have been connected with mines and mining in the Redruth, Camborne and St Day areas. The aim is to include interesting incidents and events recalled by local people in information currently being produced about the area’s mining activities. Email Lucia on lcrothall@cornwall.gov.uk Apparently, when the Americans were over during the war they thought Mabe was pronounced Maybe and got confused seeing a sign saying: Falmouth 6 miles, Mabe 3. A project in South East Cornwall called My History, My Heritage is providing a new online archive at www.commanet.org The project aims to collate old pictures and documents from the area and show them online. Charlotte Green, from Threemilestone, has been crowned the British 13 to 15-year-old BMX champion for a second year running. The Olympic team hopeful won her title in Wales. The price of a pasty is becoming more and more expensive and soon may become a gourmet treat. As the Chinese adopt Western ways, they are eating more bread, which has pushed up the world price for flour. Beef prices are also going up following the recent foot and mouth scare. The Chinese have also started making their own version of the pasty. This with bad weather and the emergence of biofuel crops is making the pasty even more expensive. With global warming causing Cornwall’s farms to flood, perhaps paddyfields should be created to grow rice? The final curtain has fallen on St Austell Film Centre after 71 years of screenings. The art deco building is being demolished to make way for a new town centre development. A photograph of a Great White Shark in Cornish waters that made news around the world has been revealed to have been a fake. A man has admitted that he took the pictures of a Great White in South Africa and sent them to a local paper as a joke and didn’t think anyone would take them seriously. The hoax angered people in Newquay – where the shark as alleged to have been seen – by putting visitors off coming to Cornwall in what has been a difficult season. |
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