A multi award-winning PR and marketing agency in Cornwall celebrates its 15th birthday this month. Barefoot Media, which is based at St Wenn, south west of Wadebridge, was formed in 2002 by former journalist Jim Michell and currently employs seven staff. The agency specialises in content-led multimedia campaigns for clients involved in food and drink,… Read more

Indie four piece Maximo Park will join The Cribs and Gabrielle Aplin as a headliner at Cornwall’s Leopallooza Festival this summer, 28-30 July 2017. Maximo Park, who will headline the Saturday night at the festival, formed in Newcastle in 2000 and have since released six albums, two of which went gold. The band’s debut record… Read more

Two of comedy’s biggest stars have been confirmed as headliners at Cornwall’s first comedy festival, taking place this August. Katherine Ryan and Russell Kane join the previously announced Bill Bailey at Stand Up in The Wyldes, three days of laughter at the home of cult music festival Leopallooza near Bude in north Cornwall. Tickets for… Read more

Cornwall-based Laurence Associates has appointed its first RIBA-accredited architect. Sarah Johnson brings more than five years’ experience to the planning-led architectural practice, based at Threemilestone, just west of Truro.  She is an ARB and RIBA Chartered Architect, qualifying in 2012 at the Architectural Association in London before completing Parts I & II at Newcastle University…. Read more

Big name artists came to Cornwall last weekend for two back-to-back gigs at The Wyldes, home of the cult music festival Leopallooza. The venue at Week St Mary, near Bude, hosted double-Brit Award winner Rag’n’Bone Man, who curated the entire bill of support acts for the show on Friday 27 May. The following night saw… Read more

Watergate Bay basked in three days of sunshine as Aspall Polo on the Beach brought high goal polo, jousting displays, fireworks, beach parties and a host of family entertainment to the north Cornwall beach. The tenth edition of the event, which took place from Friday 19 to Sunday 22 May, proved to be a vintage… Read more

Dates have been announced for Nancarrow’s summer series of farm feasts, with menus starring the organic lamb and beef reared on the farm. Hosted at the working organic farm near Truro, in the heart of Cornwall, the midsummer feasts will take place on 14 and 21 June, and 5 July. Steve Chamberlain, whose family has… Read more

Comedian, musician and West Country favourite Bill Bailey has been revealed as the first headliner for a new comedy festival taking place in Cornwall this August. Stand Up in The Wyldes will be three days of laughter, held over the bank holiday weekend from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 August 2017, near Bude in north… Read more

The complete lineups have been announced for three shows taking place at The Wyldes in Cornwall this month, with support acts joining headliners Rag’n’Bone Man, Chase & Status, and The Human League. Rag’n’Bone Man has hand-picked the acts for his talent-packed headline show on Friday 26 May. He will be joined by Living In The… Read more

A Cornish farm will collaborate with leading chefs for four nights of feasting in aid of Action Against Hunger this autumn. Nancarrow, a 100 acre working organic farm near Truro, in the heart of Cornwall, has announced plans for ‘1,000 Mouths’: a festival of feasts which embodies their ethos of sustainable food production. The concept… Read more