Work started on the build at the end of 1987, and Westar 7000s projectors were installed, along with the carpets and seats and other fittings. The projectors were moved from the former Strand Cinema in Bideford, Devon. One of the first records of presentations of movies was at Druids Hall in Redruth. In 1904, the Imperial Radioscope Company visited the hall with their animated pictures.

It used, at the time, a state of the art music play-out system, and bought in jingles from JAM Creative Productions in Texas, USA. Pirate FM was commercially successful, and enabled its owners to expand the UKRD Group to purchase other radio stations across the UK. Despite moving the long wave Daventry transmissions to Droitwich, and increasing the transmitters power, long wave reception from the Midlands remained poor in Cornwall. To this day, BBC Radio Four is not audible on long wave in most of Cornwall, and reception relies on a couple of low power repeater transmitters on medium wave (e.g. Lanner/Redruth MF on 756 kHz).

The auditorium was tripled in 1986 with seating for 600 front area and 172 & 121 in the rear areas. Screen 3 has retained its stage facilities and allows the cinema to operate as the town’s theatre when required. Perhaps the finest cinema building in Cornwall, and possibly the South West, at the time of opening, the Regal Cinema in Redruth opened on 2 December 1935, with seating for 982 on a semi-stadium plan. In the 1960s the cinema was equipped with CinemaScope and stereophonic sound. In 1929 the company began to operate world radio communications through a merger with Marconi’s radio network and it was renamed Imperial and International Communications. At its height, Porthcurno was the world’s largest cable station, with fourteen telegraph cables in operation.

It is a social networking community language rather than a social community group language. Cornwall Council encourages and facilitates language classes within the county, in schools and within the wider community. Cornwall has varied habitats including terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

Radio programmes are produced by BBC Radio Cornwall Media in Truro for the entire county, Heart West, Source FM for the Falmouth and Penryn areas, Coast FM for west Cornwall, Radio St Austell Bay for the St Austell area, NCB Radio for north Cornwall & Pirate FM. The interior of the county consists of a roughly east–west spine of infertile and exposed upland, with a series of granite intrusions, such as Bodmin Moor, which contains the highest land within Cornwall. From east to west, and with approximately descending altitude, these are Bodmin Moor, Hensbarrow north of St Austell, Carnmenellis to the south of Camborne, and the Penwith or Land’s End peninsula. St Michael’s Mount in MarazionThe south coast, dubbed the “”Cornish Riviera””, is more sheltered and there are several broad estuaries offering safe anchorages, such as at Falmouth and Fowey. Beaches on the south coast usually consist of coarser sand and shingle, interspersed with rocky sections of wave-cut platform. Also on the south coast, the picturesque fishing village of Polperro, at the mouth of the Pol River, and the fishing port of Looe on the River Looe are both popular with tourists.

Until four new parishes were created for the St Austell area on 1 April 2009 St Austell was the largest settlement in Cornwall. Cornwall’s current local radio output does not tap into the rich vein of cultural talent that Cornwall has to offer. Only very few programmes relate to Cornwall’s history and cultural identity. For example, on BBC Radio Cornwall, the Cornwall Connected programme, connects with the many Cornish who live worldwide, and David White’s programme on unsigned bands, but these remain isolated examples. Most of the rest on the three local stations is chart pop music or golden oldies, travel, weather and news.

By 1969, Westward had more than 100 correspondents across the region informing Westward of newsworthy local events and eight film cameramen who would travel the region gathering news. In 1999, Digital One started a very rapid roll out of DAB multiplexed enabled transmitters. Both Caradon Hill and Four Lanes/Redruth were converted to transmit DAB signals for the first time in 2000. This enabled DAB to be heard for the first time in Cornwall, although due to the still scarcity of sets, not many listeners were tuning in on launch day. That all changed in 2002, when Pure launched their Evoke 1 set at £100, by far the cheapest at that time. Other manufactures followed, and the price by 2004 had gone below the £50 mark, enabling a much greater consumer take up.

In rugby league, Cornwall R.L.F.C., founded in 2021, will represent the county in the professional league system. “”FOR THE FALLEN”” plaque with the Rumps promontory beyondThe late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman was famously fond of Cornwall and it featured prominently in his poetry. He is buried in the churchyard at St Enodoc’s Church, Trebetherick.Charles Causley, the poet, was born in Launceston and is perhaps the best known of Cornish poets. L. Rowse were also notable Cornishmen known for their poetry; The Rev. R. S. Hawker of Morwenstow wrote some poetry which was very popular in the Victorian period.

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