Thieves target

football club

premises at Killigarth belonging to Polperro Football Club were broken into last weekend. Two clubhouse windows were smashed to gain entry, the thieves making off with a quantity of canned and bottled drinks.

Dozens of chocolate bars were also stolen and some of the bootie was ditched in the adjacent hedge of the primary school, suggesting the perpetrators may have been local youths.

Officials say graffiti and mindless damage have become a problem at the isolated ground in recent times both for the football club and their tenants, Looe Cricket Club.

The football club's committee say they now have to review their security arrangements, but unfortunately this could result in the private field being put 'out of bounds' to the local youngsters, who have no play area supplied by the local council.

Anyone with information about the crime should contact Looe police on 08705 777 444 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

'Singalong'

at Toc H

LOOE Toc H Branch will be welcoming everyone with a cuppa and wartime songs on Saturday, September 22, during Battle of Britain Week.

The event is at their hall in Millpool, West Looe, and is from 10am-4.30pm. Tea, coffee, biscuits, music and a raffle.

No Nelson!

THERE have been no sightings in Looe harbour for two months of the port's faithful old friend Nelson the one-eyed seal. Harbourmaster Ted Webb says, however, there was a report that he visited Polperro recently.

Mr Webb says that during the season it was noticed Nelson had taken a dislike to the large number of people fishing for crabs off the quayside, especially as once or twice he got tangled up in the lines.

'I'm sure Nelson is okay,' he said. 'The fleet will soon be bringing in the mackerel, his favourite, and he usually turns up then.'

Fish didn't

get away...

Retired fisherman Edward Toms hasn't lost his touch. Fishing from West Looe Quay on Monday, he landed a five and a quarter lb mullet, which is large for the species and a very nice specimen. There are reports of the river presently teeming with mullet on the incoming tides.

Fishing from the Banjo Pier will be permitted once again from Monday, October 1, after the usual ban during the holiday season.

Meetings

not public

VICE chairman of East Looe Town Trust, Wally Scarah, has said the Trust wants to make it clear that their meetings are not open to the general public at this present time.

Harbour Commissioner Stuart Farman had stated in a Letter to the Editor (Cornish Times, September 7) that the Trust had 'opened' meetings during a trial period and he felt the Harbour should follow suit.

'The Trust has considered opening meetings, but there are unresolved matters from the past which have to be sorted out before this can be done,' said Mr Scarah. 'Our meetings are closed for the foreseeable future.'

Apples for a

feast of fun

AN appetising treat is in store for those who attend 'A Fruit Cocktail'at St Martin's Church, East Looe, on Saturday, September 29, at 7.30pm. It will be based on an apple theme, the symbol of the Caradon Arts Festival, of which the evening is part.

Everyone is invited to celebrate the harvest festival with a varied menu which includes an artistic appetiser, a musical main course, a side order of storytelling, and a dance dessert, all washed down with a tasty supper of apple-inspired recipes, using local food and produce.

Taking part will be Pelynt Male Voice Choir, Sheila's School of Dancing, Looe Community and Primary Schools, Pentorr (Youthful Cornish Folk Band), and Elizabeth Leoppert (monologue and soloist).

There will be a candlelit finale procession to the church hall for community singing and supper.

Proceeds are in aid of St Martin's Church Restoration Fund, and tickets (£5) are available from Patsy's Florist, West Looe, and Barbican Newsagency, East Looe.

Support for

market plan

TWO councillors opposed to a produce market in Looe were not supported by fellow councillors at a meeting of the town council when they tried to pass a resolution against the idea. Roy Perriment and Jimmy Dingle were defeated 6-2, with three abstentions, when they put forward the resolution that 'Looe Town Council does not support the implementation of plans for a Saturday produce market as it considers that it would introduce unreasonable competition in the current economic climate.'

The produce market, which would be held on the fish market, would be the pilot scheme for a plan to be introduced by Caradon Council for all five towns in the district, to support local produce, and is hoped to go ahead in the near future.