I’m thrilled to have won Local Democracy Reporter of the Year at the national Reach journalism awards in Manchester last night. It was a fantastic event celebrating the best in journalism and I’m so proud to have brought it home to Cornwall. I’ll forgive Carol Vorderman’s pronunciation of my surname

Luxmuralis at Truro Cathedral until January 17. Unmissable.

Happy birthday David Bowie. The world went a bit off-kilter when you left it. I took these photos at Wembley Arena in 2003. The final one of six times I saw him in concert.

Home from home as I wait for the youngest to finish a performing arts college audition #Richmond #London #LondonCornish #Cornwall

After refusing a massive solar farm today, a Cornwall Council planning committee approved an equally contentious and huge luxury holiday park near Newquay. Green Ridge Resort providing a new form of tourism, hundreds of jobs and claims it will help the housing situation swung it

People power has won out in a contentious bid to build what would have been Cornwall’s largest solar farm. An appeal is a given.

Hundreds of Cornish farmers joined the protest in Westminster today - here’s what some of them had to say.

Surely Gloucester Services provides the best motorway services breakfast in England? Haggis, bubble and squeak, extraordinary.

I’m not sure there’s a better way to set up the week than a stately Sunday night performance by Midge Ure at the Hall for Cornwall. The voice and guitar playing are as glorious as ever.

Thank you Nick Cave for my gig of the year tonight. Spiritual.

A sentence you don’t see very often: Off to Birmingham for a romantic weekend.

As I cross over from the darkside, here are some pretty lights at the first night of the #HeliganNightGarden #Cornwall