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ITV News
10-05-2025
- Sport
- ITV News
Truro players celebrate league win with a victorious bus tour through their home city.
• The Tinners are the first Cornish club to win promotion to the National League.
BBC News
10-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Truro City Football Club celebrate promotion with bus parade
Truro City Football Club will celebrate its National League South title win by lifting the trophy later on Saturday. The celebrations will begin with an open-top bus parade in the bus carrying the players and club staff is scheduled to leave Truro City Stadium at 13:30 BST, go past the train station and along Boscawen Street before arriving outside Truro Cathedral. The trophy presentation will begin outside the cathedral at 14:00. The trophy was not presented to the team following the game on the last day of the season as there were six possible the trophy presentation, players will re-board the open-top bus. A celebratory tour of the city will see the bus return to the Truro City Stadium, with the trophy. Analysis by Ross Ellis, BBC Cornwall Senior Sport Journalist Nobody thought they could do it and nobody expected it. That sums up Truro City's remarkable the course of 46 matches, Truro City transformed from homeless club to promotion went from relegation favourites to National League South was made too - they became the first team from Cornwall to reach the National season went to the wire. Six teams were in contention to win the title on the final day. Truro beat St Albans City 5-2 in a thrilling game. It was a result that left supporters joyous, yet stunned. There's still a lingering sense of disbelief that the Tinners will be playing in the National League next season.
Telegraph
02-05-2025
- Telegraph
The best pubs and bars in Cornwall
The Cornish are sniffy about lager. Why would anyone drink something so tasteless when there's such a good choice of proper ales from long-established micro breweries (including Korev's Cornish lager), not to mention the chilled ciders and array of home-grown gins. Thanks to tourism, the county's age-old granite pubs set high on clifftops or tucked away beside estuaries can turn a decent living. Many pubs have upped their food game, buying direct from farmers and fishermen, instead of from a supplier's freezer, and introducing dishes that owe more to Ottolenghi than KFC. For further Cornwall inspiration, see our guides to the region's best hotels, restaurants, beaches, cream teas, things to do and how to plan the perfect holiday. West Cornwall Tinners Arms The main bar at the Tinners Arms with its roaring fire is little changed from its origin as a dorm for the builders of the medieval church next door. It's a sociable pub, a mix of locals and visitors back from a sunset walk out to the headland (a 30-minute round-trip). There's a slew of real ales – Tinners or Mermaid are the beloved classics – and local handcrafted gins, including one made using rock samphire. The food is tasty farmhouse fare. Blue Anchor Inn There has been a working brewery at the Blue Anchor Inn for 600 years. Originally a resthouse for monks, the interior of this thatched, town-centre pub with its flagstone floors is full of character. Its most popular brew, Middle, a traditional sweet bitter, was originally made to welcome home soldiers from the First World War. It even has a skittle alley that hosts live music sessions on Thursdays. At the rear there's a large garden. Halzephron Inn Steeping in smuggling history, this medieval freehouse on a remote clifftop on the Lizard has the best sunset view in Cornwall. You can sit outside and bask in the last warm rays of the sun before it sets over Land's End. Inside there's a choice of cosy bars with high-backed chairs as well as separate dining room that serves traditional pub fare. Expect a good choice of Cornish beers on tap, plus local gins and vodkas. A short walk away is Church Cove which featured in the BBC's Poldark. The Old Success Inn The perfect place to grab a pint and watch the sun set into the Atlantic after stretching your legs on the clifftop walk to Land's End. Owned by St Austell Breweries, this historic pub has open fires in winter and outdoor seating with panoramic sea views in summer. There are 16 small batch brewed beers to cover all tastes from IPA to lager including a new AI-generated recipe called Hand Brewed by Robots. The South Coast The Shipwrights Arms This lovely old waterside pub nearly closed a few years ago before the local community banded together to buy it. The main bar areas are low-beamed and cosy but the key reason to come here is to drink good beer or a local gin and tonic out on the terrace that is just feet from the water. This is a beautiful stretch of the Helford, one of those places that makes you feel that's all's well in the world. There's a good choice of comfort food too. Check the website for live music nights, usually a folk or jazz band. Pandora Inn This thatched pub has a gorgeous waterside setting in a creek off the River Fal with tables set out on a long pontoon jutting out into the water. Inside, there are old ship's timbers, low ceilings and flagstone floors. It's popular with locals and sailors who moor their boats alongside, and there's a good selection of St Austell ales, locally brewed lager and ciders, and a decent wine list with a wide choice of wines by the glass. As for food, picture a traditional pub menu, that's very well executed and based around locally sourced produce. The car park is small; park back up the road on summer evenings. The Blue Peter Inn Tucked away in the absurdly photogenic fishing village of Polperro, this is a Grade-I listed free house, rated for its well-kept beers from up-and-coming West Country breweries including the Cornish Crown, Otter, Bays and Fish Key brews. The chatty welcoming staff will also mix you a mean bloody Mary and, in winter, a mulled rum cider. There's live music every Friday and Saturday from March to November, usually local solo performers. It's a 10-minute stroll from the car park as no cars are allowed in the village centre. The North Coast Blue Bar, Porthtowan On summer evenings surfers and families gather at picnic tables on the terrace overlooking this popular surfing beach to watch the sun set into the sea. Parking isn't a problem as there's a large car park nearby. Inside it's a large barn of a place but the friendly efficient crew run a tight ship. Order a pint of Sharp's Doom Bar ale brewed in Rock and a plate of spicy chilli nachos. The Watering Hole The Watering Hole claims to be the only bar that is actually on a beach in Britain and often finds itself in the paper after storms when it teeters on the edge of a sand cliff high above the sea. It sits on three-mile Perranporth Beach, which is a great place to watch the sun go down in a blaze of glory into the sea on a summer's evening, and it's one of the liveliest places for a drink on this coast. There's also a wide-ranging programme of regular live music and plenty of space to get up and dance. The St Kew Inn This 15th-century inn deep in the countryside near Port Isaac has a wonderful atmosphere, and food and drink to match. Fires crackle on winter days and in summer there is plenty of space in its garden. The ales are from the nearby St Austell Brewery, there's Cornish Rattler cider from Healeys Farm near Newquay and wines are sourced from Camel Valley vineyard down the road. The food has won awards, using local produce where possible and the Sunday roast is legendary. How we choose Every bar, venue or experience in this curated list has been tried and tested by our destination expert, who has visited to provide you with their insider perspective. We cover a range of budgets and styles, from casual pubs to exquisite cocktail bars – to best suit every type of traveller – and consider the service, drinks, atmosphere and price in our recommendations. We update this list regularly to keep up with the latest openings and provide up to date recommendations. Gill Charlton is a regular writer in the Telegraph's travel pages. She has lived in Cornwall for 25 years and loves to walk along the coastal path and reward herself with a proper steak pasty and a pint of Betty Stogs ale.
BBC News
27-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Truro City: From homeless club to league champions
Truro City's promotion to the National League marks the greatest moment in Cornwall's footballing sport-wise as a rugby union hotbed, this county on the South West peninsula is more associated with holidays, cream teas and pasties than high-flying come next season, the Tinners will become the first side from the county to play in the fifth tier of English football, after their dramatic 5-2 final-day win over St Albans City saw them claim the title on goal difference from Torquay victory comes a year after they were still playing 'home' games at Gloucester City - a 390-mile round-trip - and marks the highest of highs for a club that has also seen its fair share of lows."I cannot believe that we've done," said Truro's long-serving captain Connor Riley-Lowe."The club's had some really tough times over the last few years and especially last year playing in Gloucester three times a week."We've got jobs, we've got kids, people don't realise the amount of effort that we put into it sometimes."What we've done this season is just reward for the last four seasons of having no home and having to graft through." Ups and downs The most comparable achievement to Saturday's league title win is probably when Truro won the FA Vase in 2007. Current assistant manager Stewart Yetton - who is the club's all-time record goalscorer - was part of the side that won at Wembley 18 years ago but says winning the National League South is a much greater achievement."Wembley was unbelievable, it was amazing the memories that we created that day," he said. "Winning that is very different to winning the league - we've won a league that we had no right to win."When we went up through the leagues for a few years, we had bigger budgets and we should have done it. We've just won a league where we've probably got a bottom-six, bottom-seven budget."This is the greatest achievement that Truro City has ever delivered - Cornwall's got its first National League club." Few clubs can claim to have had the rollercoaster history of Truro City in the past 20 former owner Kevin Heaney, they stormed up the regional leagues in the West Country, winning five promotions in six years, and in 2007 were the first side to win a final at the newly-rebuilt Wembley Stadium when they beat AFC Totton 3-1 to win the FA Vase. Under Heaney's ownership they continued to climb the ranks until they reached what is now National League South in as property developer Heaney's business suffered in the global economic crisis of the time, so did Truro, and the club went into administration in August were hours from being expelled from the league before local businessmen Peter Masters and Philip Perryman stepped in and saved the club in October of that the team bounced between the Southern League and the National League South, and in 2014, the club's Treyew Road home was sold to developers. In 2019, Cornish Pirates rugby club took over Truro with the aim of building the Stadium for Cornwall - a venue capable of hosting both a few planning delays, work began on Treyew Road in October 2020, leaving the club homeless - they groundshared with the likes of Torquay, Plymouth Parkway and even briefly with Gloucester funding issues with the Stadium for Cornwall, Truro went their own way and built their own ground, which opened last August, having been taken over by Canadian since returning to Cornwall, Truro have flourished - they have the third-highest attendances in the league and have had 3,000-plus sell-outs for their final two matches of the season."I've had a feeling all year that we could do something like this, and to actually do it is a culmination of a lot of hard work from a lot of people and it's the best feeling in the world," owner Eric Perez told BBC Sport."Everything we've done since we've taken over is to build this club bigger and better and fulfil its potential and fulfil Cornwall's sporting potential."So we're going to do everything we can to do that, nothing will stop us, no-one will stop us and this is for Cornwall. Cornwall deserves it." 'A long old poke' Comedian Paul Whitehouse once played a Plymouth Argyle fan in a car insurance advert, external - "a long old poke", he said when describing an away trip to for Truro fans - and those of their opponents next season - it will be even longer. Should Gateshead fail to progress through the National League play-offs, it would mean their 920-odd mile round trip to Truro would become the longest away journey in English football - comfortably beating Argyle's 815-or-so miles to Sunderland and back this season, Truro's 'local' derby will be a 280-mile round-trip to Yeovil Town - but many of the away days will be more than double could also be lengthy journeys to Hartlepool United, York City, Boston United and Carlisle United, although none are as long as Whitley Bay's trip to Truro in the FA Vase in 2008 - a round-trip of more than 940 miles."I'll probably have to renew my passport and get a visa," joked manager John Askey."It would probably be the longest trips in English football that has ever been. "How we're going to navigate that I don't know, but we'll have to sort it out - it's a nice problem to have." But for Askey, it more than vindicates what was seen as one of the most surprising non-league managerial appointment of last former Port Vale and Shrewsbury Town manager has had great success in the fifth and sixth tiers. He led Macclesfield Town to the National League title in 2018 and guided York City to promotion from National League North in he had never managed a club based further south than Shrewsbury and never led a side in National League South - let alone one that had just moved to a new ground and had no idea about how many people would turn out to watch what has been the secret of his success? "I think having honest players is a big thing," he said."The things that Truro have to put up with regards the travelling, training facilities, it's probably the most honest group of players I've ever had. They're amazing."To have achieved what they've achieved, that's probably why it gives me as much pleasure with this as it as with any promotion that I've had."Whatever club you go to you want to do well because it means a lot to supporters and means a lot to people who were running the football club, and obviously it means a lot to myself to win something."
BBC News
21-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Truro City return to top as title race goes to the wire
Truro City moved back to the top of National League South with a game to play after a 2-0 win at Harvey scored two second-half goals to ensure the Tinners go into the final day of the season with the title destiny in their are ahead of second-placed Torquay United on goal difference - Truro have a two-goal advantage on their nearest neighbours - while Eastbourne Borough move up to third a point who led the league at the start of the day, drop to fourth a a 1-1 draw at now sixth-placed Dorking three points cover the top six teams with a game to go. "The other results and us getting a win today puts it back in our court," manager John Askey told BBC Radio Cornwall."At the start of season if you said you need to win your last home game to possibly win the league we'd have all taken it."Harvey opened the scoring 10 minutes into the second half as he picked up the ball from Dominic Johnson-Fisher and coolly seen goalkeeper Dan Lavercombe make an excellent save in the final minute, Harvey got his second from the penalty spot in the third of 12 minutes of stoppage time to secure Truro's 25th league win of the they can win the title they would be the first side from Cornwall to ever reach the fifth tier on English football. "I'm really pleased with the effort the players have put in, and to come here and get to a 2-0 win when there was something on it for Weston as well is a real fantastic effort," added Askey."It's been twist and turns all through the season."We've just got to concentrate now on getting a result against St Albans, obviously they're fighting for their lives and it won't be easy."
