Newly Fish Festival 2008
The Newlyn Fish Festival will once again be celebrating the Cornish Fish Industry on Bank Holiday Monday 25th August, amongst the wonderful surroundings of Cornwall’s largest fishing port. The Festival is organised in aid of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen which provides care, compassion and support to working, retired and disabled fishermen and their families.
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27th Annual Art Exhibition

27th Annual Art Exhibition –August 24th  to 30th – 11am to 5pm daily

This annual event never fails to attract a lot of attention, held at St. Peters Church Hall in Newlyn there are many who travel considerable distances, or even arrange their holiday to coincide with the show. It offers an opportunity to buy an original work directly from the artist, knowing that a percentage of the sale price will go to the Children’s Society. All work displayed is by local professional and amateur artists.

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Cornish Dialect and Language – a potted history
Sixty years or so ago, at school in Penzance,  I would walk through the cattle market,  held on Thursdays at the top of Causewayhead,  listening to the farmers in town for the day.  It was possible to tell  which area they were from; St Just, Zennor and Newlyn, for instance, had quite distinct accents and used different dialect words and phrases.   Such differences created a strong sense of identity and 'belonging', as important today as it was then.
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Exhibition of Paintings at the Centre
An exhibition featuring the paintings of John Gutteridge Sykes opened at the Centre on Saturday, 9th August and will be open daily from 10 am to 4 pm for a week, ending on Saturday, 16th August.
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Newlyn Fish Market plans on show

new harbour plansA new presentation of the plans for the new Newlyn Fish Market are available online at www.newlyn.org. 

The plans have been submitted to Penwith District Council by the Newlyn Pier and Harbour Commissioners will be determined in January 08 and will lead to further studies.

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Line-caught tuna from port in stores

THE first supermarket has started selling line-caught tuna – straight from Newlyn's fish market. The fish are being landed by the Nova Spero and Charisma twice weekly with fresh deliver...

Register for charity swim

THE annual Yacht Inn Swim from Newlyn Green to the Jubilee Pool Slip takes place tomorrow evening. Last year a record 237 swimmers took part in the spectacular 1,300-metre event and this yea...

Fish festival banking on crowds of visitors

NEWLYN'S fish festival will bring thousands to the village on Bank Holiday Monday, August 25. The event, which is the annual fund-raiser for the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen ...

Book signing at Newlyn Fish Festival

CAROL Trewin and Adam Woolfitt will be signing copies of their recently published book at Newlyn Fish Festival on August 25. The author and photographer jointly produced Cornish Fishing and Se...

Long-distance charity swim is thriving

THE long-distance swim, a sporting tradition of Penzance and district, has become a major local fund-raiser for the Macmillan charity. Four generations of young and mature sportsmen swam fro...

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