In January 2010 Falmouth’s beloved Poly closed its doors and a county mourned. Cut to July 2010 and the doors are back open, with the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (RCPS) calling for a raft of new members to help keep it that way.

Are you an artist? Illustrator? Designer-maker? A mere 25 quid could give you the chance to exhibit your work in Falmouth’s Events Square, showing off your talents to the huge influx of international revellers at the forthcoming Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week sailing event (7 – 15 August).

So you’ve finished your exams and you’re looking for high jinx. Newquay seems like a good bet, right? But with the alcohol-related deaths of two young people last year, the dangers of excessive drinking are impossible to ignore. Step up alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware, on a mission to tackle underage drinking with their new Got Your Back Campaign...

When it comes to summer festivals, we’d have thought nothing could beat the sheer eccentricity of Michael Eavis belting out an off-key ‘Happy Birthday’ alongside Stevie Wonder, while 150,000 hoots and cheers egged him on.But we’d forgotten one thing. Glasto might be over, but Britain’s most eccentric, eclectic and downright hip indie festival is yet to come.

Are you a budding first time writer? An up and coming literary talent? An established wordsmith? Popular Cornwall based reading night Telltales is branching out into publishing and it's looking for submissions.

There are more than 27 million cyclists in Britain and nearly four million cycles are sold in the UK. We’re a nation in love with our bikes but no-one is crazier about the old two wheeled horse than Gary Moger, a committed bicycle mechanic on a mission to fix up the bikes of Cornwall, one rusty bike chain at a time...