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Your Daily Stars

Fame is a magnifying glass. Make sure you want to enter the world of recognition before you embark on weekend dramas. You could be getting into something you have not thought about. Call to make sense of recent mixed messages you've received. Family are hard work. What can you do to ease the recent tensions? Back off and give yourself a day or two off. Things are sure to look different with a fresh perspective and rested mind. Call now to hear why it is good to be different.

On the Right Track with Footprints ; Nature Watch with Trevor Beer

THE tracks in the mud were those of a pheasant, a hen pheasant in fact, and I could tell because I had just watched her make them as she walked up ahead of me along a very muddy path. Tracking is a lot easier when you can see your quarry up ahead - well, then it is following rather than tracking - but the interest and fun is there just the same for one is learning. We had just found nuts and acorns opened by squirrel and woodmouse, footprints of the former clearly showing in the mud and there...

Alex's Courage Makes for Humbling Viewing ; Last Night's Television Jackie Butler Sees Alex: A Passion for Life On C4

WHAT an inspiring chap Alex Stobbs is. There's not a shred of self-pity about this bright teenage music maestro who pushes his hopes and dreams to the absolute maximum, in spite of the chronic and debilitating cystic fibrosis that has plagued his short life. He harnessed my heart and my respect last year in the excellent documentary, A Boy Called Alex. It was an intimate portrait, putting the spotlight on him as an Eton choral scholar, revealing the daily commitment and struggle faced by Alex...

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Finding Courage to Say 'I Don't' to the Ordinary ; She's Never Been the Most Conventional Dresser... Now, 25-Year-Old Cherie Gordon Faces Her Ultimate Fashion Challenge As She Embarks On a Quest for the Right Wedding Gown. Join Her As She Picks Her Path Through Traditions and Family Expectations, and Decides Just How True She Can Be to Herself

WE'VE all heard the old cliche "I've been dreaming about the perfect wedding since I was a child" but for me that saying doesn't ring true. Instead of planning the ultimate picture-perfect wedding complete with a dress with marshmallow characteristics, I was busy getting into scrapes with my brother, forgetting to brush my hair and generally being a bit of a tomboy. So when my boyfriend of eight years finally popped the question on a snowboarding holiday I was gripped with a sudden and terrif...

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Up Close and Personal with Designer

FOLLOWERS of fashion will have a rare opportunity to meet one of Britain's leading designers in a special event at the Royal Cornwall Museum. On Thursday, October 22, Bella Freud (pictured) will be speaking at a seminar event held in conjunction with Patrick and Jane Gottelier, joint course leaders of University College Falmouth's fashion and performance sportswear courses.

Sandy Shores Inspire Designs

THE wild and windswept coastline of the Westcountry and memories of a childhood treasure trove of pebbles are the inspiration for a North Devon silversmith's new range. Kit Heath's Barnstaple-based jewellery business is now big news: he sells all over the world through retailers and his website. He's well known for his huge range of silver jewellery, with influences ranging from Celtic to Art Deco to contemporary. This year, the company is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a tantalising n...

I'm All for Saving Planet but Cling to Best Invention ; Crossing the Pond

CLINGFILM. It's a dilemma. I've been trying to do my bit to reduce waste. I've been saving and re-using vegetable bags from the supermarket and turning leftovers into roommates, like putting halved peppers or courgettes into the carrot bag. I've been separating my waste and composting the organic matter. When I can, I use plates or Tupperware or a cheese bell to cover food.

Less Is More for Minimalist Painter

IN JESSICA Cooper's paintings, one line packs a thousand punches. Her minimal canvases, painted in her studio near St Just, have a quiet and understated power. She takes single elements from her Cornish surroundings and places them on a blank background. The lack of clutter lends them more impact. The cluster of cottages in her painting Little Loves and Houses was sketched on Gwenver beach in Penwith, West Cornwall.

Westcountry Walking News

WALKERS Are Welcome accreditation... Well, well, well - that's a new one on me. I'd like to think walkers are always welcome just about everywhere save perhaps for top secret germ warfare establishments, but it's nice to see someone is taking us humble hobblers seriously... I'm told that the quirky and charming little market town of Wiveliscombe is to become the first town in Somerset and only the second in the South West to gain this Oscar of the walking world. The community is joining a "fa...

Only Risk Is Stunning View ; Westcountry Walks Martin Hesp Takes a Circular Route Around Sharkham Point and Man Sands

TODAY we explore the wild and wonderful coast south of Brixham, partly to mark the fact that I led my very last guided walk exactly one week ago. Over the past 10 years of writing this column I've often been asked to lead many walks for various festivals or charities - and have enjoyed doing so on an unpaid voluntary basis immensely. But given the onerous nature of "risk assessment" forms and all the other health and safety nonsense that almost every organised event comes bundled with nowaday...

Fluid Fingers Bring Magic to Caves ; Review: Xuefei Yang Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot

STEPPING quietly on to the stage, Xuefei Yang immediately launched into a serene set of classical guitar virtuosity spanning East and West. Opening with Bach's Prelude Lute Suite, Xuefei instantly won the affections of her audience at what must be Cornwall's quirkiest music venue.