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Why drawing eyes on food packaging could stop seagulls stealing your chips

The increasingly urban lifestyles of seagulls in the UK and around Europe has made them experts at grabbing food from unsuspecting outdoor diners. Herring gulls in particular are gaining a reputation for food theft in seaside towns like Falmouth in Cornwall, where I live.

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Seafood thieves snatch $400,000 of lobster, plus oysters and crabs, in round of New England robberies

“This is a devastating situation for a small businessman,” said Marine Patrol Sgt. Matthew Sinclair.

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Cornish activist injured as police remove her from tree-felling protest

Charity worker had joined 40 demonstrators ‘bearing witness’ to the loss of three lime trees in Falmouth

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Scientists dig up two-tonne whale head found on Cornwall beach in 10-hour mission

Marine mammal’s head was buried in Falmouth by scientists for five years after it ended up stranded on a beach

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Really Rad Festival of Cyclocross: Maghalie Rochette and Andrew Strohmeyer earn elite titles at C1 races in Falmouth

Canadian junior national champion battles Rochette to the line in elite women's contest

Cycling News

What a 19th-century atlas teaches me about marine ecosystems

What stands out most about the book I’m carrying under my arm, as I meander through the exhibits at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, is its awkwardly large size. The Piscatorial Atlas, authored by Ole Theodor Olsen and published in 1883, contains 50 beautifully illustrated charts of the…

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‘I’ve had seals nibble my toes!’ How sunkissed Cornwall became a 422-mile surf paradise

Surfing? It’s as Cornish as piracy and pasties. As a thrilling exhibition opens in ‘Britain’s California’, we enter a heady world of coffinboards, hotdogging Aussies – and bans dished out to gangs fighting on the beach

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Pirates invade Falmouth, camels trek London and Aus goes gaga for Kusama – the week in art

Yayoi lands in Melbourne, the Silk Road runs through the British Museum and corsairs real and fictional dock in Cornwall – all in your weekly dispatch

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Really Rad Festival of Cyclocross: Rochette and Strohmeyer win C1 races in Falmouth

Clouse moves onto women's podium and Brunner takes second for men on day one of weekend event

Cycling News

Jack Whitehall reacts after Netflix viewer spots unfortunate blunder in new show Fatherhood With My Father

Comedian stars with his dad Michael in new Netflix show about first-time fatherhood

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Takeaways from AP report on perils of heatstroke for runners in a warming world

Heatstroke is a dangerous illness caused by heat and runners are at increasing risk as climate change creates more hot days

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Runners are used to toughing it out. A warming climate can make that deadly

Heatstroke is a dangerous illness caused by heat and runners are at increasing risk as climate change creates more hot days

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Porta Fortuna on track for Breeders’ Cup after flowing Falmouth success

Porta Fortuna supplemented her determined victory at Royal Ascot with a dominant display in the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket

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‘Water just makes you feel better’: the Cornish angling club that’s not about catching fish

On Falmouth pier, volunteer angling coaches and men and women of all ages gather regularly for fresh air, companionship and the mindfulness that comes from casting a rod into the sea

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Thousands gather across UK to demand clean rivers, beaches and lakes

Protesters call for an end to sewage discharges into all bathing and high-priority nature sites by 2030

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‘Clean water is a basic right’: protesters against sewage in seas and rivers gather across the UK

Surfers and families vent their frustration with water companies after more news of poisoned drinking water and polluted lakes

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Northern Kentucky mayor removed from office blames 'buddy system' for his ouster by the city council

At a noon meeting Tuesday, the Falmouth City Council voted unanimously to remove Mayor Sebastian Ernst on three charges. Ernst didn’t attend the meeting. He says the charges are frivolous and unsubstantiated.

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Rare hybrid dolphins spotted off Cornish coast

Falmouth sighting of cross between common and striped dolphins thought to be UK first

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Barges could still be used for asylum seekers under Labour, says Cooper

Shadow home secretary’s comments come as Bibby Stockholm vessel heads to Dorset from Falmouth after a refit

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80% of beaches in Cornwall issue raw sewage alerts following heavy rain

54 beaches across Cornwall have issued sewage alerts, including near tourist hotspots like Falmouth and Penzance

Daily Mirror

Swimmers flee UK beach after spotting 'shark' - but it's something very different

There was commotion at Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth, Cornwall, but the animal was mistaken for a different creature, something experts say is a relatively common confusion

Daily Mirror

Armed Forces Day flypast 2023: Route, times and when you can see the Red Arrows

Red Arrows is showing off its incredible aircraft at an Armed Forces Day extravaganza in Falmouth, Cornwall, an event that will also feature a military parade and bands

Daily Mirror

'We're being forced out of our seaside town by Airbnbs and second homes'

Competition for housing is fierce in Falmouth, Cornwall - largely due to the increase in people desperate for a second home to rent out - and locals are not happy

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Best beach hotels in Cornwall 2023: Where to stay for sandy shores and sea views

Enjoy walking and swimming along Cornwall’s coastline, during a stay at one of these beachfront beauties

Birmingham Post

GeoScience wins tender for the feasibility of geothermal heat from abandoned Cornish metals mines

The Falmouth geothermal company will assess the viability of the potential resource from three sites

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