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  News from Cornwall - a look at what's been going on in and around the Duchy 

Cornwall Council sell historic coastguard flats worth £640K for £1.00 - Link

Discount card goes on sale exclusively for people living in Cornwall - Link 

John Le Carré: Cornwall home of spy author for sale - Link

Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. After her commissioners could no longer pay the shipyard, the ship was bought by Shackleton in January 1914 for the expedition, which would be her first voyage. A year later, she became trapped in pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915. All of the crew survived her sinking and were eventually rescued in 1916 after using the ship's boats to travel to Elephant Island and Shackleton, the ship's captain Frank Worsley, and four others made a voyage to seek help. 

Shackleton ship model Endurance brought from Ukraine to Cornwall - Link


Radio Story: Johnny O'Shea explains how the model of Shackleton's ship ended up in a Cornish museum- Link 



Joyous Cornish seed scattering event marks fightback against habitat loss - Link


Jobs on Tresco Island with housing and travel included - Link

Cornwall G7 legacy nature recovery projects underway - Link

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Cornish Myths - Madron Holy Well  video link