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BBC News
15-07-2025
- General
- BBC News
Total of 27 South West parks win Green Flag awards
Parks and other green spaces in Devon and Cornwall have achieved Green Flag spots across the two counties were recognised with the Green Flag award and five with the Green Flag community awards recognised spaces across the region which achieved the international quality standard for parks and green Diaz Petersen, Historic England's principal national landscape adviser, said: "Heritage is at the heart of our green infrastructure networks, from public parks to our canal network, providing crucial benefits for people and nature, and a critical resource for climate resilience." In Cornwall, Camborne Recreation Ground, run by Camborne Town Council, received the Green Flag parks and green spaces in Devon received recognition in the Green Flag included Grand Western Canal Country Park, Freedom Fields Park in Plymouth, Courtenay Park in Newton Abbot, and parks and green spaces in the South West were also awarded the Green Flag community award. Spaces awarded Green Heritage Site Accreditation included Princess Gardens, Royal Terrace Gardens and Tessier Green Flag award was launched 29 years ago and set the benchmark international quality classification for parks and green Peresen added: "Historic England is pleased to support Green Heritage Site Accreditation, which recognises the achievements of Green Flag Award winners who meet additional criteria and care for, share and celebrate the heritage of their sites."Keep Britain Tidy's chief executive, Allison Ogden-Newton OBE, congratulated the added: "Our quality parks and green spaces make the UK a heathier place in which to live and work, and a stronger place in which to invest."
BBC News
26-04-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Trevithick Day organisers become community interest company
An army of unpaid volunteers are behind a Cornwall town's annual festival celebrating the famous inventor Richard will be the 41st Trevithick Day with crowds gathering to see the Puffing Devil, a replica of Trevithick's first high-pressure steam locomotive. This year the festival, which also celebrates the industrial heritage of the Camborne area, is being run by the Camborne Trevithick Day Community Interest Company (CIC) for the first time. The event includes steam engines, street entertainment, dancing, vintage buses and stalls. Trevor Brookes, chairman of Camborne Trevithick Day CIC, said the event was funded with grants and sponsorship with an army of volunteers giving their time for said Trevithick Day was important to the community in Camborne. "The focus is primarily Trevithick, the great inventor, but it's not just about Richard Trevithick, it's an opportunity to give Camborne an uplift," Mr Brookes said. "For one day a year this event reaches out to all aspects of the community." 'Community benefits' Camborne school children, dressed in period clothing, will be dancing to entertain the crowds. There will also be local entertainers, musicians, jugglers and theatre groups performing throughout the day. Steam engines are due line up in Basset Road and parade through the town at 3.30pm. Mr Brookes took over running the event four years ago and said forming a CIC, a non-profit company, was the best fit for the event. Mr Brookes said the CIC worked in collaboration with Camborne Town Council to share responsibility for various aspects of the organisation, including road closures, security teams and first aid provision to make sure people are Brookes said organising the event started nine months in advance and was a complex process.
