The local hairdressers, Top Knot, has been taken over and made into a sandwich bar and internet cafe.
The shop has been leased by Chris Evans and Mark Twynham who runs The Scillonian Club on St Mary?s.
The business is due to open in the spring.
A new Foredeck will be opening in March.
The shop, which originated on Scilly, will be the second store for the Devon town of Totness.
The new Foredeck will be selling all the top brands while the orginal store will stock high street clothes. It will be run by staff currently working in the other Foredeck.
The Foredeck can be found at the top of the high street in Totness.
The Foredeck was created by Jane and Terry Ward from St Mary?s. On Scilly the original Foredeck is located on Silver Street alongside the Foredeck Too. Terry and Jane?s daughter Georgia manages 49 degrees another clothing store linked to the chain.
Motorists that still persist in driving while on their mobiles have run out of time. Devon and Cornwall Police will now be getting tough on drivers who flaunt the new laws.
As from Sunday a period of leniancy will come to an end.
Car owners risk a ?30 fine for talking on their hansets when driving.
Mobiles aren?t completely banned though hands free kits are still legal.
Devon and Cornwall Police said: “Driving when using a hand-held mobile phone is now illegal and you may be fined ?30. This can be increased to a maximum of ?1,000 if the matter goes to court, and ?2,500 for drivers of vans, lorries, buses and coaches.”
“You can also be prosecuted for using a hands-free mobile phone if you fail to have proper control of your vehicle.
“Drive carelessly or dangerously when using any phone and the penalties can include disqualification, a large fine, and up to two years imprisonment.”
Arson investigators in the south west are jumping for joy after being given nearly a quarter of a million pounds in Government money to carry on with their work for the next two years.
Every year there are 2000 fires started deliberately around the south west. Two people die a week because of arson attacks.
The Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Arson Task Force has been around since 2001 to catch arsonists and reduce the risk that comes from the criminal practice.
The Arson Task Force is a partnership between the Isles of Scilly Fire Brigade, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, Devon Fire and Rescue Service and the Cornwall Fire Brigade.
Artists from the islands will have their work on display at the Lander gallery in Truro.
Cross Cutting Themes: An Exhibition of Creativity will run from February 2 to 27 and it will show work from artists who had bursaries from Creative Skills Consortium.
Panto season kicks off tonight as St Mary’s Theatre Club takes us back to King Arthur’s Court.
iThe Stormy Knight/i, scripted by veteran writer and performer Maggie Perkovic, is set in legendary Camelot, where mop-headed Sir Roger de Coverley is causing havoc amongst the knights and ladies.
Banished in disgrace and ordered not to return without a good deed under his belt, Sir Roger and his trusty horse Trigger end up in the gloomy village of Hamelin where all the children have been lured away by the evil Pied Piper.
Meanwhile, Camelot is aflutter with the wedding of King Arthur to the beautiful Lady Guinevere, but with Sir Lancelot as her escort and wizard Merlin with a sense of foreboding, it’s anyone’s guess what can happen.
It is the eleventh pantomime written by Maggie Perkovic and she has produced all but the first. “I do like the old tales of Lancelot and Guinevere, it’s such a romantic story,” she says of the inspiration for iThe Stormy Knight/i.
“But you’ve got to make it funny, so I thought wouldn’t it be interesting to see what happened to the children who were taken by the Pied Piper of Hamelin and what if we could bring them all back? That way we can star lots of local children who can also play rats. We have a huge cast this year and the children are some of the best we’ve ever had.”
The action zips between Camelot, Hamelin, a fairy glade and the Piper’s den, whilst the cast is packed with flower fairies, rats, knights, jesters, wizards, inventors and cooks. And with stunning costumes, smoke machines, sing-alongs and slapstick, it promises to be an unmissable show.
Amongst the stars treading the boards this year are Rev Julian Ould as King Arthur, Tony Dingley as the Dame and Graham Walker as the unlikely hero Sir Roger, with strong support from David Corners, Mary Dean, June Nance, Bobby Gray, Louise Shippey, Jim Johnson, Jackie Pritchard, Lesley and Brian Thomas, Rachel Gaulton, Corentyn Smith and lots of others. Congratulations also to a strong backstage team.
Performances are Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm at the Town Hall. Tickets on the door, subject to availability. ?3.00 for adults, ?1.50 for children. Look out for photos next week.
This year it has been fifteen years since the film When the Whales Came was released to cinema audiences.
The movie was filmed on the islands using people on the islands as actors and actresses, cooks, accommodation, transporters, cleaners and extras. Scilly News takes a look at when the islands took a trip to Hollywood!
Why the Whales Came was written by Children?s Laureate and Scilly fan Michael Morpurgo. The story is set on the island of Bryher and follows the friendship of Gracie and Daniel. Back in 1988 film crews descended on the islands. Films stars such as Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls, Prime Suspect) and Dexter Fletcher (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) were flown in to play islanders. But it wasn?t just celebrities that got parts in the film. Helen Pearce, from Bryher, was chosen to play the part of Gracie alongside Max Rennie. Steven Dan, Kerra Spowet and Blue Phillpot also landed big roles in the motion picture.
Trainers and tracksuits were cast aside as children and adults were chosen as extras and were dressed in period clothing.
The film was released in early 1989 and the Town Hall was turned into a temporary cinema so that islanders could see the finished result.
Helen Pearce got to appear on shows like ?Wogan? to promote the film.
Here are some of the reviews that can be found on the web:
?A beautiful film.? Helen, Iowa
?I have been searching for a copy of this film since I saw it on television. A lovely film and the whales are beautiful.? Katie, London
Some types of fishing may be banned if Cornish MP?s get their way.
MP Candy Atherton has published a report from the Commons environment committee calling for pair trawling to stop in two seasons time unless dolphhin deaths are cut.
Conservationists last week revealed that some species could be made extinct if fishing continues in this way.
There have already been hundreds of dolphin deaths on Cornish beaches this year. The islands get very few dead dolphins washed up.
Julie Love from the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust explains why: “We do not get many on Scilly, this is due to tides and our coastline, they end up on Mainland beaches instead. Also some of them are on the uninhabited islands so we do not know about these until the summer when all we find are bones.”
The Westcountry Ambulance Service are launching a campaign to stop people in the South West making “inappropriate” 999 calls.
The WAS says that 25% of calls they receive are not appropriate and means hundreds of hours are wasted.
Westcountry celebrity Noel Edmonds is backing the campaign.
Here are just a few of the calls that the WAS has received:
The lady who dials 999 regularly claiming chest pain and on arrival crews find she wants a hug
A man was scared of thunder and wouldn?t get off the phone until it had stopped, kept ringing back until storm ended
Male had collapsed and gone to see his GP. Given some pills and dialled 999 4 hours later to ask why they weren?t working
A couple called 999 to ask paramedics to come and fetch logs in from their shed
Call at 3am in Crediton as patient had a spot on the end of her finger
A man called 999 at 3pm as he couldn?t sleep
Recharge an electric key meter as ?patient? unable to get themselves to the garage
They have been asked to turn central heating down
Person unable to get out of chair, called 999 to get crew to turn kettle off
Person lonely, frequent caller to 999
6 men got beaten up in Barnstaple and got on a bus to Bideford. When there they were refused entry to a nightclub. They called 999 for an ambulance. When crew arrived the 6 only wanted paramedics to clean them up so they could get into the night club
Man on holiday who had forgotten his medication. He called 999 to ask what he should do.
Toothache
Lost remote control
Patient called with serious injury. When crew decided to take him to a different hospital, the patient miraculously recovered
Broken finger nail
Scilly is the only place in England with temperatures above freezing.
That is according to BBC Radio Cornwall?s Coast to Coast programme.
Today it was revealed that the country is suffering from a particularly cold spell while Scilly is still basking in the sun and warmer temperatures.
It hasn?t snowed in Scilly since 1988. In the 1960?s the islands saw eight inches of snow.