NEWS
Police raid drugs villa
POLICE raided a rehabilitation centre in St Austell for prolific ex-cons with drink and drug addictions on Thursday morning and arrested two inmates after conducting a search of the premises.
Two men, a 29 and a 25-year-old, were detained at the FreshStart scheme at Belfield in Truro Road on suspicion of credit card fraud offences. The 29-year-old was also arrested on suspicion of possessing a class A drug, thought to be heroin. The substance has been sent away to be forensically tested.
The pair have been placed on police bail pending further enquiries....
Clampers ambush kids dance class
A mother with two disabled daughters and a group of mums with young children were ambushed by cold hearted parking attendants during a clamping and ticketing sting last week.
On Thursday night, mothers and their kids were reduced to tears when clampers at the St Austell Football Club struck during a dance class.
Eight vehicles were clamped, with a charge of £100 for release, and £50 tickets were stuck on five other cars when they ran out of clamps, netting over £1,000 for the clamp company, Premier Park.
There were no signs to make people aware of the new parking charges at the front entrance of the St Austell Rifle and Pistol Club, where the dance class was being held, and the mums were shocked to discover the clamps and tickets when they had parked for no more than 15 minutes after dropping off their kids.
Signs were hastily erected on the gates the following day, after the Voice contacted the clamping gang....
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Death of motorcycle ace
Motorcycling fans across the region have learnt about the sad passing of Adrian Kessell, 83, who died peacefully at home on Monday, February 8.
He was born at Whitegates, St Dennis in October 1926 and was the older son of Tommy Kessell, a pre-war motorcycle champion.
In September 1945 Adrian started his racing career in a local meeting riding Tommy’s 1926 Zenith where he came third.
This was the start of an extremely remarkable story that was to span seven decades.
Over sixty years later Adrian was still riding....
New car park planned
Worries regarding impending huge increases in council parking prices in St Austell have been alleviated with the opening of a new low cost parking centre..
St Austell football club are allowing spaces at their Poltair Park ground to open to the public during the week, with a full days parking costing just £1.50 and three hours for just 70p.
Premier Parking have taken control of the site for an initial period of six months and, if the scheme proves successful, will hope to secure a long term deal to patrol the site, which is looked after on a hourly basis and is soon to be controlled by CCTV....
Cash for Fore Street changes
St Austell Town Council have agreed to contribute £10,000 towards the next phase of an initiative to regenerate Fore Streetl.
At a meeting on Monday, the council supported this phase of the Civic Pride Initiative, which includes improvement works in Fore Street and Aylmer Place. It is hoped the work will start in late summer.
The proposals include a new granite surface throughout the street, street furniture within a new layout, paving features, street lighting, trees and an upgraded surface water drainage system....
