Nick Irving
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South West Water fined almost £8m over hundreds of pollution spills (opens the original)
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South West Water has been fined almost £8 million today over hundreds of pollution spills in Cornwall and Devon. South West Water admitted 18 charges across Devon and Cornwall. Seventeen were for illegal discharge activities including sewage discharges and one for a failure at a sewage pumping station. The Environment Agency prosecuted the cases, which took place between January 2015 and July 2021 at locations in Harlyn, Polperro and Bodmin in Cornwall, and Plymouth in Devon. At Plymouth Magis
Carers jailed for stealing £5,400 from grieving wheelchair-bound widow (opens the original)
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Two live-in carers who fleeced a wheelchair-bound grieving widow have been jailed - and could now face deportation. Sharon Kasuto and Uaepa Mbunga defrauded the 83-year-old woman they were paid to look after at her home in Redruth, Cornwall. Over a six-week period they used her bank cards to steal £5,400. Truro Crown Court heard the victim was wheelchair-bound after a fall, and her husband died during the period the two carers were employed. Man jailed for slashing ex-partner's neck twice and st
Man jailed for slashing ex-partner's neck twice and stamping on her head (opens the original)
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A 41-year-old Penzance man who attacked his former partner with a knife was jailed on Friday. Martyn Boyns fought with her in her kitchen at 3.30am on June 7 this year, when he pushed her over and stamped on her head as she lay on the floor. She ran into the lounge saying she was not scared of Boyns, but he pursued her armed with a knife and slashed her neck twice before stamping on her head again as she cowered on the floor. Thousands of fake key fobs seized from home in Cornwall lands man in c
Angry woman slashed man with wine glass leaving him needing 100 stitches (opens the original)
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Angered during an argument, a 21-year-old woman slashed a man's face with a broken wine glass, leaving him needing 100 stitches. Eden Duffield had been socialising with friends in a Newquay pub in Cornwall when they began drinking with another group. But an argument broke out and Duffield - now aged 22 - struck Luke Nelson with a wine glass. When it broke she slashed him a second time. Truro Crown Court heard today (Friday, August 28) the wound extended from his eye to his chin and he also suffe
Man took woman he met on the internet back to his caravan in Cornwall to rape her (opens the original)
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A 43-year-old man has been jailed for eight years for raping a woman he had only just met, in his caravan in Cornwall. Craig Brassington had been drinking in a pub with the victim after they had made contact via the internet. Truro Crown Court was told on Thursday how they met up in person for the first time that night in question, in the summer of 2021. The court heard both had been drinking a significant amount of alcohol and the victim wanted to go home. Brassington, now of Carn View, Gwennap
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