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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
St Gluvias CC announces 75th Anniversary Players' Reunion Evening
St Gluvias Cricket Club, Penryn, has announced that it will be holding a 75th Anniversary Players' Reunion Evening on Saturday, August 16, 2025. There will be some "live" entertainment and a buffet/barbecue – details to be finalised and announced nearer the date. An invitation is extended to everyone who has ever had any association with the club to come along for this party evening: it should be a great opportunity to catch up with some old friends. Organisers request that old players please spread the word about this event, as club officials do not have the contact details of many people they would like to welcome back to Kernick Road. PLAYERS NEEDED. The club would like to let everyone know that it has just about everything it needs, apart from enough regular players. There are some great hard-working volunteers, a well-equipped modern clubroom and bar, an attractive and well cared for ground with excellent pitches, good changing accommodation, two youth teams and AllStars/Dynamos cricket coaching, a welcome array of advertising sponsors, regular social activities (bingo, euchre, quizzes, karaoke, etc), inexpensive membership rates, and NO match fees. If you live in the Penryn area and want to be involved in a local club, it's a very pleasant place to be! However, though they should have plenty of youngsters filling the Saturday teams 2-3 years from now, many aren't quite old enough yet. Amongst the adults, when they are all playing, the 1st and 2nd XIs are very competitive, but they suffer from inconsistent availability. On a couple of occasions, the second team has bravely soldiered on with short numbers. If you are a former player or just not committing yourself as much as you could do at present, please spare a thought for the guys who are battling on without you: do you not feel you could help them out? Now is when this needs you, much more than when the club was winning leagues and cups! Perhaps you could even be an umpire or scorer. For more information or to ask about playing, please contact the Chairman, Mark Mitchell (07805 787858, mgmcornwall@ or the captain/secretary, Richard Bannister (07791 219656, bannybanny14@ We're also on Facebook (St Gluvias Cricket & Social Club).
BBC News
23-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Penryn brain tumour fundraising runner inspired by grandfather
A runner from Cornwall is preparing for the London Landmarks half marathon to honour her mother and grandfather who both had brain Corbett's grandfather Michael Jarrett died in 2018 after a late diagnosis of a glioblastoma, while her mother was diagnosed with a benign tumour 11 years Corbett said of her grandfather, who she called Pap: "He is my driving force and the absolute power and the will to get out in the rain and will push me over the line at the end of the half marathon."The 34-year-old from Penryn will run the 13 mile (21km) route, which starts on Whitehall and finishes by Trafalgar Square on 6 April. Ms Corbett, who is fundraising for the Brain Tumour Charity, said: "Pap was the kindest, happiest, most thoughtful person ever, and always thought the absolute world of his family."We first noticed something was wrong when he started getting headaches consistently, and he lost the ability to do his crosswords, and enjoy horse racing – his favourites. "Then he drove through a red light, which as a lorry driver was extremely unlike him."Ms Corbett said despite her mother's tumour being benign it was "not without challenges".Her training route takes her past Cornwall beauty spots and the harbour, castles and beaches around Falmouth and includes running three to four times a week since last April in all said she wanted to raise awareness of brain tumours and would also be holding a fundraising bingo night on 29 March at St Gluvias Cricket Club, Penryn." Pap is a big running inspiration to me – he ran marathons," she added.
