Breaking News - Penzance Heliport to be sold to Sainsbury

The supermarket giant Sainsbury has today confimed a deal with British International which will lead to the current site being redeveloped. No announcment has officially been made as to where the heliport will relocate to, but after the 2010 and 2011 seasons it is thought British International will move to Land's End to consolidate all Isles of Scilly operations.

The sale of the site is based upon planning permission being granted for a new store on the Eastern Green helipad. The the proposed plans go ahead a significant boost to the Penzance economy is expected.

For more info visit http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/homepagenews/Heliport-site-sold-Sainsbury-s/article-1957006-detail/article.html

A New Dawn for South Crofty?

Western Morning News Article

'Cornish mining could be back in business within two years if ambitious plans to extract copper, zinc, silver and even gold at South Crofty attract sufficient international investment.'

This is fascinating - from my point of view having just visited the mine and having visited the underground workings I have to say that I'm not surprised of this recent news. In order for such a large scale observation and investigation programme to be instigated there had to be more than a half chance they would find something. There's clearly plenty of extractable material down there...whether you'll get the amount of workers required is a different matter. I have a feeling Cornwall will jump at it......