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6 hours ago
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Truro City vs Plymouth Argyle ticket details for pre-season game
Plymouth Argyle fans will be able to buy tickets for the pre-season game away to 2024/25 National League South champions Truro City from Friday morning. The Pilgrims' first visit to the Truro City Stadium, which has been home to the Tinners since last August, will take place on Wednesday, July 16, with a 7.30pm kick-off. It will be an opportunity for the Green Army, especially those in Cornwall, to get an early glimpse of their team in action under new head coach Tom Cleverley. Advertisement Truro, whose assistant manager is former Argyle striker Stewart Yetton, pipped Torquay United to the National League South title on goal difference last term and will become the first ever Cornish side to play at Step One (the National League). READ MORE: Tom Cleverley guarantees Plymouth Argyle loyalty and hard work READ MORE: Tom Cleverley reveals Plymouth Argyle backroom staff recruits Ticketing arrangements for the July 16 fixture have now been confirmed. Truro season ticket holders can buy theirs from 10am today while the general sale for home and away supporters will begin at 10am on Friday. Advertisement General sale prices will be £15 for adults, £12 for concessions (any person over the age of 65, students in full-time education or ambulant disabled) and £6 for under-18s. Matchday prices will be £18, £15 and £11 respectively. Purchases can be made by the Truro official website: A Truro statement said: "Tickets will go on sale to home and away supporters separately, so sales and expectant numbers of fans can be monitored closely by Truro City. "At this stage, the club does not expect the fixture to be segregated, although defined home and away ticket sales will make this process straightforward to implement, should the need arise. "Truro City season ticket holders will have a priority window of 48 hours, from Wednesday, June 18 at 10.00am, to secure their tickets to this eagerly anticipated cross-Tamar clash. Advertisement "Fans that purchase a season ticket during the priority window, will be able to purchase their ticket for the Argyle game, before general sale starts at 10.00am on Friday, June 20. "All tickets for this match will be for general admission, with seats in the Eden Hot Tubs North Stand allocated on a first come, first served basis. "The club will be providing a full update on scheduled works that are taking place at the Truro City Stadium over the summer, including the expansion of the Eden Hot Tubs North Stand in due course later this week." Argyle have not played a pre-season game against Truro since July 2019 when they lost 1-0 to City at their former ground, Treyew Road, after a goal from ex-Pilgrims' striker Louis Rooney. You can read more of our Argyle stories from Plymouth Live by clicking HERE
BBC News
8 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Rooney signs new full-time Truro City contract
Midfielder Dan Rooney has become the fourth Truro City player this week to sign a new deal. The 26-year-old former Plymouth Argyle youngster will go full-time after the club's promotion to the National returned to Truro two years ago after a spell with Plymouth Parkway and has also spent time at Bath City. Will Dean, Tyler Love-Holmes and Dan Lavercombe have also agreed new deals with The Tinners this week. "For me it was a no brainer to sign on," Rooney told the club website. "The last couple of months of the season, I hit some form as I found my position and at the moment, I am absolutely buzzing."There is always pressure when your contract is up. But I felt confident I would get a new deal, even though getting promoted means we are going full-time."The opportunity to become a professional full-time footballer again is an opportunity that not many people get. 'Leaving my job and going back into full-time football is a risk, but when I weighed things up, there were lots of pros and no cons.'
BBC News
20 hours ago
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- BBC News
Plans for bridge to connect two parts of Truro scrapped
A planning application for a bridge to connect two parts of Truro has been scrapped and could be replaced by a cheaper alternative. The Truro Town Deal Board axed the plans which would have seen the bridge - known as a lifting bridge - connect Truro's Boscawen Park with Newham. The proposed new design would be for a bridge which would have a pivot point on the western quay. The estimated amount for the original plans were between £6.25 and £6.86m, and the new amount would cost between £5.36m and £5.86m. 'Huge challenge' The new project has also been awarded about £812,000 in Cornwall Council match funding, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said. A revised planning application for the updated bridge design is expected to be submitted in the autumn. Should planning permission be granted, construction could start in spring 2027, for completion by the end of 2027 or early Stanhope, chair of the Truro Town Deal Board, said: "The board has faced a huge challenge in the delivery of our plan against rising costs of construction and materials. "We therefore welcomed the opportunity earlier this year to revisit the design and mechanism of the bridge with the view of reducing costs."
BBC News
a day ago
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- BBC News
Goalkeeper Lavercombe signs new Truro City deal
Truro City goalkeeper Dan Lavercombe has become the latest member of the squad to agree a new full-time deal with the newly-promoted National League 28-year-old former Torquay United and AFC Fylde stopper joined the Tinners last summer from Taunton Town and was an ever-present as Truro won National League new deal supersedes the two-year contract he agreed when he moved to the club a year ago. His fresh terms follow those of Will Dean and Tyler Love-Holmes who agreed new deals earlier this week."Next year will be a big step up and the league we are going in will be a lot tougher, but we have a few lads that have played higher, so we will need everyone to move forward to pull through," Lavercombe told the club website."I am really enjoying my football and hopefully I can continue for a long time."Nobody knew what to expect when we came back (to Truro), so to have the crowds we have had is amazing. In the tough games, the fans really pulled us through, got us extra points in tough games towards the end of season."
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Daily Mail
Evil mother who murdered 12 year-old daughter with twine as girl screamed 'Mommy don't!' demands early prison release
A Canadian mother who strangled her daughter with twine as the girl screamed: 'Mommy don't' has asked to be released early from prison. Penny Boudreau, 51, of Nova Scotia, killed her daughter Karissa, 12, in 2008 and left her dead body in a riverbank, then claimed the youngster had been abducted and went on TV to plead for her safe return. Boudreau was seen on the news crying for her daughter's safe return, telling the public how much she loved the girl, and how desperately she wanted her home safe. Thirteen days after her mother reported her missing, her body was found on the LaHave riverbank, which is located less than five minutes from Boudreau's apartment. Police launched an investigation that focused on Boudreau's contentious boyfriend, who Karissa didn't like, after there were reports of yelling and fighting in their apartment. Months later, police staged a fake crime organization to elicit a confession from the mother-of-one, who admitted she strangled her daughter on a deserted road to people she didn't realize were police. Now, Boudreau is requesting to be released early from her life sentence at the Nova Institute for Women in Truro, The National Post reported. The mother was sentenced to life but is eligible for parole after 20 years. However, she can apply for unescorted day parole passes three years before her parole eligibility under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act. Her first request has to be reviewed at a hearing, which took place on Wednesday. Day release would allow the murderer to participate in community-based activity ahead of her potential release. It authorized a 60-day unescorted temporary release before it will reevaluate giving her six months of day parole. She will be required to report any relationships with men and disclose if they have parental responsibility of children under 16. She must also stay away from several members of the victim's family. She also has to follow a mental health program, as she was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and has borderline personality traits, according to CBC. Offenders are required to return to a halfway house nightly. Boudreau toured one in December, The Post said. Boudreau works as a cleaner for her prison unit and is also in charge of ordering groceries for the women who live with her, The Post reported. She has also been given escorted temporary absences from jail to attend church and bible studies. However, her request has received some backlash from the public, who haven't forgotten about her heinous crime. 'I think she should serve what she was sentenced to,' Karissa's childhood friend, Courtney Sarty, 29, who now has a child of her own, told The National Post. 'I read that her assessment to reoffend is really low and that she's not probable to commit the same crime. Killing Karissa was unprovoked, so who is to say it wouldn't take the right situation for her to do something again. 'If she is given parole, I don't think she should have access to children whatsoever... I have my own son and my love is deep. He could curse me and put me down to the lowest, and I'm still going to look at him and say: "I love you."' However, Boudreau still has some in her corner, as an unidentified pastor at the church she attends said the organization is ready to continue supporting her while she works toward release. Boudreau has been described as having a low risk for day parole as she is no longer in an unhealthy relationship and has spoken about how she has 'work[ed] through the many emotions that come with accepting the offense you committed, daily feelings of guilt and shame,' The Post reported. When the time took place, Karissa had recently moved in with her mother and her boyfriend and the girl's diary revealed how she resented living with him. On January 27, 2008, Boudreau claimed she took Karissa on a drive to have a one-on-one chat with her. After a storm rolled in, she stopped at a grocery store to pick up a few items and left Karissa in the car. When she returned, the girl was gone. The mother would report her daughter missing two hours later, despite knowing that her story was false and her daughter's body was lying in a riverbank. While she strangled her daughter, the girl yelled at out: "Mommy don't,' as she knelt on her chest and strangled her with twine, the mother admitted. She then placed her daughter's body in the car and drove it to the riverbank, where she pulled down the girl's pants to make it look like she was assaulted, then rolled it down the bank. Judge Margaret Stewart told Boudreau at the time that she hoped those words would 'haunt you the rest of your natural life.' Prosecutors said Bourdeau murdered her daughter due to fear of abandonment from her boyfriend, whom she no longer talks to. Boudreau was charged with first-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to second-degree.
