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Latest News...(02/09) Rich Stein sees the potential in Newlyn
Newlyn is "ripe for development" due to its picturesque setting and atmosphere, Rick Stein told the Cornishman as he opened the Fish festival this year.
The celebrity chef, who has p...
(02/09) Fish festival is a big catch for all
CELEBRITY chef Rick Stein described Newlyn as a "jewel" of Cornwall as he returned to the fish festival after more than a decade to open the event in glorious sunshine.
The Pads...
(02/09) Public to get more time to have say
CORNWALL Council has extended the deadline for public consultation over plans for the economic future of Penzance and Newlyn.
The council is giving people an extra two weeks, until September 15...
(02/09) Fishing industry training organisation wins Rick's praise
Celebrity chef Rick Stein paid tribute to a company that trains people to work in the seafood industry.
Mr Stein handed bosses at Seafood Cornwall Training two liferafts at Newlyn Fish Festival...
(02/09) Record number of swimmers line up at Newlyn Green for charity Yacht Inn event
MORE than 450 swimmers took to the water off Newlyn Green on Friday night, smashing previous records for the annual Yacht Inn Swim.
Almost 400 adult competitors in wetsuits, plus Bilbo the surf...
(31/08) Celebration of the sea brings thousands to thriving Cornish port
Cornwall's annual celebration of the sea has been held at the thriving fishing port of Newlyn for the 20th year.
The picturesque harbour town was packed with thousands of bank holiday visitors ...
(31/08) Rick Stein honours Seafood Cornwall Training
Presentation of donated Viking Liferaft
Rick Stein has honoured the staff and directors of Seafood Cornwall Training for their service to the fishing industry by presenting them with a liferaft d...
(28/08) Skipper fined for deckhand's ocean plunge
The death-defying feats of a Falmouth trawlerman who broke free from fishing nets after being dragged underwater in a freak accident have landed his skipper a sizeable fine.
Wayne Evans, 30, hi...
(19/08) Plan B: Vow to submit new scheme by January
ALTERNATIVE plans to regenerate the dilapidated fish market in Newlyn will be submitted in January, the harbour commission promised this week.
The authority has allowed itself three months to p...
(19/08) Facilities need to be better, say producers
PAUL TREBILOCK, managing director of the Cornish Fish Producers' Organisation, said boat owners had concerns about additional costs.
"We want a fit-for-purpose building with proper facilit...
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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. 
