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The Camelford water pollution incident involved the accidental contamination of the drinking water supply to the town of Camelford, Cornwall, in July 1988. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was inadvertently added to the water supply, raising the concentration to 3,000 times the admissible level. As the aluminium sulphate broke down it ...
Devon and Cornwall Police stated that officers attended the scene within six minutes of the emergency calls and found the bodies of Davison and four of the victims. [10] They described the events as a "serious firearms incident" and established thirteen different crime scenes within the cordoned area. [18] [19]
Midland, Texas. On March 14, 2020, Hispanic American man, 18, attacked an Asian family at a Sam's Club in Midland. After grabbing a knife from a store display, the attacker punched the father and cut him before attacking two of his sons, aged two and six. A Sam's Club employee and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer held the attacker ...
The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall, England. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat Solomon Browne, based at the Penlee Lifeboat Station near Mousehole, went to the aid of the vessel Union Star after its engines failed in heavy seas. After the lifeboat had rescued four people ...
David Dixon - BBC News Cornwall. October 23, 2024 at 1:18 AM. Known locally as Swan Island, the simple stone stack has been used for nesting [Adrian Langdon]
Looking upstream from the bridge after the flood. The 2004 Boscastle flood (Cornish: An Lanwes Kastel Boterel 2004) occurred on Monday 16 August 2004 in the two villages of Boscastle and Crackington Haven [1] in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The villages suffered extensive damage after flash floods caused by an exceptional amount of rain ...
Devon and Cornwall Police (Cornish: Kreslu Dewnens ha Kernow) is the territorial police force responsible for policing the ceremonial counties of Devon and Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly) in South West England. The force serves approximately 1.8 million people over an area of 3,967 square miles (10,270 km 2).
1415: Cornish archers present at the Battle of Agincourt [26] 1455–1487: Wars of the Roses, the feud between the Courtenays and Bonvilles in Cornwall and Devon. 1469–72: Rebuilding of St Petroc's Church, Bodmin. 1473–74: The siege of St Michael's Mount (30 September 1473 – February 1474).