Another step up the ladder for Penzance as the one vital component lacking in the life of the town is addressed with the first edition of the Penzance Gazette. 

The Royal Cornwall Gazette has had things it's own way for ten years now, but the launch of the West Briton is going to change all that.........

140 years old today and still going strong(ish). The Cornishman was first published on 18th July 1878.

Open your copy of the Cornish Tidings, hot off the press. It’s 1921 now, and after the long war everything’s getting back to normal. Or what will pass for normal, in the coming age.

A brand new newspaper for the brand new year. And what better title? How else to suggest the exhilarating pace of modern life, the new communications media that are changing the world?