Knitted poppies light up church
Hundreds of lovingly knitted poppies formed the centrepiece of remembrance at Pelynt Church.
Sheila Morrell-Davis, Jill Brown and Margaret Snowden together knitted and crocheted 750 poppies.
They were then sewn together by Sheila for display in the church.
The poppies will be shown each year during the remembrance period.
The team would like to enlarge the display for next year – so anbody with knitting or crochet skills is invited to help.
Please contact Sheila on 01503 220976 if you would like to take part.
Sheila Morrell-Davis, Margaret Snowden and Jill Brown pictured with the centrepiece of remembrance at Pelynt Church, the 750 knitted and crocheted poppies
Ex-Cornish Times editor ‘JC’ retires
Colleagues gathered to mark the retirement of former Cornish Times editor John Collings.
John, who lives at Widegates, has been in journalism for just shy of half a century. He left the editor’s chair in Liskeard in 1988 to join the Sunday Independent, with which he has spent nearly 30 years.
He has now retired as editor of the Liskeard-based Independent, where he had overseen the publication’s coverage of sport across the Westcountry.
Independent staff and contributors, as well as members of the Cornish Times team and sports organisations across the region, all made
contributions to leaving gifts for John, known to all as JC.
During a celebration at the Eliot House Hotel, Liskeard, he was presented with a case of red wines, engraved glasses with which to enjoy them, flowers for his wife Carol and, in newspaper tradition, a framed ‘front page’ complete with deliberately mistaken apostrophe.
Journalist Stuart Fraser paid tribute to a long and distinguished career and said the Independent would miss JC’s ‘enthusiasm, dedication, profess- ionalism, humour and friendship’.
JC will continue to contribute to the Independent.
Friends and colleagues gathered at the Eliot House Hotel in Liskeard to wish journalist John Collings a happy retirement
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