Cornish clings to life
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Lisa Simpson, the spiky-haired U.S. cartoon character, may just be the spark that revives an ancient language and fuels a tiny political movement at the tip of the southwest English coast.
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Five people were rescued off the Cornish coast yesterday after drifting for seven days in a life-raft amid storms and 30ft waves after their boat sank near the Isles of Scilly.
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These are hopeful times for those who like to think the prospects of life elsewhere are good.
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By Robin Turner  Tombstoning - the craze in which people jump into the sea from rocks or tall buildings - will kill again, coastguards warned last night. Their alert follows the death of a 46-year-old man from South Wales, who died after jumping 30ft into the sea off the South Devon coast.
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By PETERBOROUGH  AT THIS time of year when all seems doom and gloom, I reminisce about happier times when, as a child growing up, one could find happiness on a beach in Cornwall.   There is a beach at Marazion where my father would take me crabbing as a boy.
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Wound dressings made of ground shellfish exoskeletons save lives by stopping extreme bleeding in emergency situations. By Aaron Rowe.
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A well-made absorbing tale of two brothers in a small town.
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By Brent Champaco, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep. 5--Margot LeRoy couldn't believe her eyes two months ago when she drove past a bare patch of land in Gig Harbor's west end.
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Alaska's Old Believers are accustomed to struggle. But even for them, these are the most trying of times.
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Grant Wharington and the 15 crew members of his 98-foot Skandia were safe in Hobart last night but &quot;lucky to be alive&quot; after transferring to two life-rafts, as their super-maxi wallowed upside-down in rough seas, 80 miles off Tasmania.
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By DR DANNY PENMAN DOCTOR Penny Sartori was barely halfway through her night shift at Morriston Hospital in Swansea when one of her patients began behaving in a most peculiar way.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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Boscastle residents could be allowed back home, ten days after devastating flash floods hit the Cornish village.
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The cousin of one of three youths who died in the Lake District tells how the day turned to tragedy.
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A Briton living in Thailand today told how survivors of the sea surges which have wrecked the countryâs southern tourist resorts had to tread over bodies to escape.
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BARRY Jones is writing the final chapter of his autobiography. Like standing on the gallows, that&#39;s something that focuses the mind wonderfully.
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used to find food and mates. It&#39;s the stuff of literature; the scent of a scallop-shelled pastry dipped in lime-flower tea stirred the memories on which Marcel