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Latest News...(26/06) Anglers view light sentence as 'let off'
CORNISH recreational sea anglers have reacted with dismay to the W Stevenson & Sons judgement passed last week.
The Angling Trust is concerned at the light sentence and is now urging the ...
(25/06) Distressing time for fishing family as trial takes its toll
THE STEVENSON family has spoken out about the "very
distressing" time during the investigation into its flouting of EU
quota rules.
Talking to The Cornishman
after the six-and-a-h...
(25/06) 'Time to move on' after fishing trial
NEWLYN'S fishing community is ready to move forward
following the end of a trial which saw the Judge spare Britain's
largest privately owned fish firm from heavy fines.
W
Stevenson and Sons...
(24/06) Trereife Art Gallery
John B Anderson 1945 -
1997 from June 6 - July 4
John was
born in Glasgow but within the year his
family moved to London, where they
welcomed into their home many of the
literary a...
(24/06) Trust attacks fishing firm's 'let-off'
THE sentence handed to a fishing firm which flouted
EU quota regulations was a "let-off" that undermines attempts to
protect threatened fish species, an angling association has said.
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Larry Hartwell's Newlyn Harbour Blog
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There is a tendency to see Cornwall as a large heritage site with
tourism as its main industry, Newlyn can claim so much more. A major
fishing port – its large harbour even now in the process of
modernisation and improvement – the village has retained its links with
artists, first forged over 150 years ago. ‘Newlyn School of Artists’
may refer to a particular style of painting developed in the 19th
century, but there are artists still in Newlyn. A village with an
interesting history to be researched and conserved, it is also a
vibrant community living in the present. A community with church and
chapels, shops and pubs, and, at its heart, the Ship Institute.
William Symons was born in Newlyn in 1878. Following family tradition he became a fisherman and a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. In 1914, following some early action at sea in the First World War, he died at the age of 36 yrs, leaving a widow and seven children, a boy and six girls. Unknown to him, and to his family, he left another legacy. In his body he carried a faulty gene, which, if inherited, could lead to Huntington’s chorea, a disease that normally becomes apparent in middle age. William died before symptoms appeared but the disease, known at the time as St Vitus Dance, was to claim the lives of a number of his descendants. 
In december 2009 two gig rowers from Penzance, Phil Pring and Ben "Skippy" Cummings, will be rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, fulfilling personal ambitions and raising money for the Cornwall Blind Association.
