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Royal Cornwall Hospital sent parents 170 miles to get scalded toddler seen by specialist

The parents of a scalded 22-month-old child were sent from the Royal Cornwall Hospital, in Truro, to Bristol's Frenchay Hospital to see a specialist.

Man 'stole rabbit and a guinea pig after a drunk night out but only realised after he woke up and found them hopping around his bedroom'

Merlin Quinnan (pictured) had broken into a woman’s garden and taken the animals from their hutches, Truro Magistrates Court heard.

Stalker freed and allowed to live NEXT DOOR to woman he terrorised

Darren Blee, (pictured) 22, from Truro, plagued pretty Pippa Dowson by following her day and night, hiding in bushes and jumping out in front of cars she was in.

Hinckley United wound-up over debts of more than £200,000

Hinckley United Football Club is wound-up by the High Court over debts of more than £200,000.

A very special delivery! Baby boy born in mid-air in Royal Navy helicopter as crew rush mother to hospital

Marcus Daniel McLachlan, who arrived somewhere between the Isles of Scilly and Truro, is the second child ever delivered on one of the Queen's emergency vessels.

Brazen fly-tippers mar picturesque country lane by dumping a BOAT on the roadside

The vessel was dumped in the entrance to a farmer's field in Holtsmere End Lane, just outside Hemel Hempstead.

Cornish tea plantation Tregothnan exports to China

A trade delegation from the Chinese Embassy visited Tregothnan, near Truro, the UK's only tea plantation. The members tasted the tea and now want to ship it back to the home of tea drinking.

Tory donor worth £630million branded 'greedy' for trying not to pay tax by joining avoidance schemes

The Duchess of Bedford, a director of Woburn Safari Park, is exploiting controversial loopholes which allow the wealthy to write off 'losses' against tax.

British sailor Geoffrey Cole feared drowned as yacht is found in France

Geoffrey Cole, 61, from Weymouth, Dorset had tackled the same route to Swanage numerous times before, police said.