By Mick Gale, Watch Keeper. The National Coastwatch Institute (NCI) is staffed by volunteers working closely with the RNLI, Coastguard rescue and The Maritime Agency at Falmouth (formerly known as The Coastguard). Read his previous article here which tells you more about the service and the vital part they play in coastal/maritime safety. […]

Info adapted from Bude Coastguard FB: Bude Coastguard Rescue Team was paged at 12:31 yesterday to assist Boscastle Coastguard Team and paramedics from the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, following a report of a female casualty who had fallen 30ft from cliffs in Boscastle harbour. The Cornwall Air […]

Boscastle Witchcraft & Magic Museum is yet another small business trying to work its way through the vagaries of Covid-19, pingdemics and online booking systems. They have, however, after the website and booking system crashed, come up with a cunning plan … don’t just turn up on spec. You won’t […]

  At the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic with Bude’s Emma Jane Saunders. Register by sending an email to:- dragongoddesshealings@gmail.com Learn the history of Pendulums, create some pendulum boards, take part in simple exercises to know your pendulum better, learn some basic pendulum healing. Expand your knowledge on the pendulum […]

On their Facebook page, the Boscastle coastguard tells how it received a call yesterday of “several persons caught up in a riptide at Tregardock beach” including children. The full team as paged by Falmouth control room including Port Isaac RNLI who were on scene within 10 minutes and were already assessing […]

Given it is on the doorstep, I don’t go to Boscastle very often, yet it feels like a different world to Bude. It has evolved. One of the eateries says it serves crepes, and you can now hire a tuk-tuk to tour the village! I have a few friends who […]

Yet more unfortunate fire news. At 8.30pm, the Critical Control Centre received multiple calls to a house on fire on Tintagel Road, Boscastle. Four appliances from Delabole, Wadebridge, Bodmin and Bude community Fire Stations were mobilised. Upon arrival, the crews confirmed the building was well alight. One person was treated […]

By Devon & Cornwall Police: Three people have been convicted in connection to a forged will that saw the all reference to the charity Christian Aid removed, and significantly reduced the legacies of the original recipients. On Thursday 17 May, William “Hedley” Venning, Sally Jane Clarke and Stephen Shaun Martin […]

Port Isaac RNLI was tasked this morning around 9.30am after a dog fell off the harbour wall in Boscastle into the sea. Sadly, the dog though found, had not survived. People praised the RNLI’s efforts on their Facebook page, which reunited the deceased pet with its owner. However, the message […]