STOP PRESS - £5.25 million grants boost for English fishing industry

5.25 million in grants has been awarded to the English fishing industry from the European Fisheries Fund.

The largest single grant was £2.3 million for a new fish market in Newlyn, Cornwall. It is subject to assurances from the new Newlyn Harbour Commissioners who are expected to be appointed before Easter.

THE talented and highly regarded "Newlyn maid" and lady of letters Liz Harman took as her bardic name Nedhores Hwedhlow – Spinner of Tales – and it is a title that could not be more apt.

A natural born storyteller, star of the Golowan Festival's Tongue Pie evenings and one who, only recently presented a successful literary lunch as part of Newlyn Festival of Arts, Liz has inherited her mother Rene Nash's talent for the telling of a story. She used the event to launch her latest book of Cornish tales, Now 'Ark Some More, a sequel to 2006's Now 'Ark To Me.

The Victoria History of the counties of England (VCH) is an English History project started in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.  The first volume was published in 1901 and work continued slowly although in some counties, including Cornwall, it ground to a halt as the century progressed.  Only one volume in two parts was published for Cornwall.  More recently a Heritage Lottery funded project, part of the Victoria County History, has enabled work to start again. 

A new fish market for the community of Newlyn

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