NEWSWAVE

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join more than 1,200 primary school students at an event organised by anti-racism charity Black Voices Cornwall at The Hall for Cornwall to mark the 76th anniversary of Windrush. We check in with two of the main attractions at last weekend’s P...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join local students and teachers to talk about the importance of reading and the enjoyment that can come from it, taking inspiration from last week’s St Austell Festival of Children’s Literature. We check in with Sam Houston, a community fundr...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join co-organiser Julie Sykes and Cornish based author Naomi Jones to talk about this week’s eagerly-anticipated St Austell Festival of Children’s Literature. We check in with Melanie Portlock, Community Health and Wellbeing Coordinator here a...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join 1,500 fun runners at RAF St Mawgan for a record breaking Rainbow Run that raised £100,000 towards the vital services and support offered by Children’s Hospice South West. We check in with Tarn Lamb, Chief Executive Officer for Cornwall Ne...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. We’ve got something a little bit different for you in this week’s episode, as we share with you a flavour of last weekend’s Royal Cornwall Show, which saw more than one hundred and seventeen thousand people visit the site near Wadebridge across the three days. The weat...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join The Cornwall Bicycle Project and their various partners for the first ever Limitless Festival, an open event held at Par Track to celebrate and share the world of adapted cycling. We check in with Matthew Kenworthy Gomes, chief executive...

Today is the launch of ‘NEWSWAVE Investigates: Desalination', a documentary series which explores South West Water’s proposed plans for a Desalination Plant in Par, Cornwall. Over the episodes, CHAOS Radio Journalist Tom Howe and Producer Meah Howlett, will ask what desalination is, why it could be necessary and what impact it might have on the area. They will bring you answers from industry...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join Bethany Lyne, Project Director of Open Studios Cornwall, to explore a celebration of Cornish creativity that sees hundreds of artists and makers open their studios to the public. We check in with award-winning Cornish singer-songwriter Wi...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join Simon Betteridge, CEO of Compassionate Kernow, to explore their mission to support people through the most challenging of life’s experiences and their first steps here in Cornwall. As well as that, we check in with Matt Harrington, who he...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. We have got something a little different for this week's show as, all this week, CHAOS Radio have been collaborating with NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly to raise awareness about mental health services available in your local area and to share advice on how to im...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we share some of the fun and frolics from the prestigious Riviera Run, organized by the Cornish Mini Club, which saw hundreds of the classic vehicles descend upon Pentewan Sands over the Bank Holiday Weekend. We join Piers Thompson, External Rela...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join Mark Sherris, Station Manager at St Austell Community Fire Station, to discuss their work to make our communities safe for all to live, work and visit. We check in with Alison Jones, a fundraiser for Cornish-based international disaster r...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we visit Fowey and Mevagissey RNLI Stations to celebrate the lifeboat institution's 200th anniversary, and to witness the momentous signing of a special scroll, designed to bring communities together under the RNLI’s 'One Crew' ple...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join Jonathan Jones OBE to chat about Tregothnan and their big Charity Garden Open Day this weekend, supporting three local mental health charities, with gates opening for the first time in five years. We check in with Tracey Bristow, Engageme...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join Harriet Laurie to talk about The Horse Course, a mental health equine charity that supports disadvantaged individuals as young as eight, offering equine-assisted interventions with their specially-trained horses. We check in with comedian...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join Kelly Clarke and Teresa Minear of Roche Pantomime Players to chart the success of their recent production of ‘Robin Hood and his Merry Men’ as well as the exciting plans they have for the future. We check in with Louise Fox, Director of M...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we join Jenny Gramnes and Laura Adams to chat about the Digital Futures project, a specialist training programme led by Truro & Penwith College that is designed to support people in Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly to build the skills they...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we hear from former Blue Peter presenters Konnie Huq and Simon Thomas on why they were recently reunited, and how the Talking Futures project they are working on can be of benefit to parents or guardians of teenagers right here in Cornwall. We vi...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we talk about steps you can take to improve your health and wellbeing with Jan Howells of Age UK Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We stop by the Hall for Cornwall to meet Cornish musician, Will Keating, to hear how and why he rounded up more tha...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we talk environmental impact and support for biodiversity with Alex Forrester of Forest for Cornwall, a flagship project of Cornwall Council’s Climate Change Action Plan. We stop by St Austell Leisure Centre to meet assistant manager Jacquelyn Pe...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we talk special events and fundraising for Children's Hospice South West with Jenna Simmons, events organiser at Rayle Farm. We join the always fantastic, Clive Kessell, who explores the history - and future - of the Cornwall Banger Rally Ch...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we talk breaking down barriers and creating an inclusive and diverse Cornwall through the power of sport, with Nathan Richards of the Kernow Football Alliance. Plus, we hear from the cast and crew of St Enoder Pantomime Society, whose performance...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we celebrate the incredible achievements of local sporting personality, Neil Slateford, following his mammoth 24-hour run around Par Track and discuss our amazing coastlines here in Cornwall and the conservation work that goes on to maintain them...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we delve into the history - and future - of Probus Parish Church, as well as shining a light on the incredible people saving Lostwithiel Community Centre from closure. Plus, we hear from mind and body transformation specialist Pete Styring (Progr...

Join our reporter Tom Howe for NEWSWAVE, your weekly rundown of the top stories happening across St Austell and surrounding areas. In the latest episode, we talk Lions Club of St Austell with James Mathers and explore how you or your good cause could be the next lucky recipient of their ongoing funding campaigns. We’ll also discuss caring for your wellbeing, getting active and making the most of o...