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A collection of avian art is being auctioned to benefit the wildlife charity that the artist helped to create.Lay's Auctioneers in Penzance is selling 80 scientific studies of birds by Valentine Paton with proceeds going to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT) of which he and his botanist wife, Jean, were founding members.The auction house's art cataloguer Mark Pollard said the studies were "an important documentation of Cornwall's avian history from a man who has quietly done much to…

Charlotte Cox and Robert Hall,Channel Islands InvestigationsBBCThe desalination plant in La Rosière, Corbière, Jersey, which cost £180,000 to run this summer, is due a major upgrade to increase capacity by 50%Our demand for water is on course to outstrip supply within 25 years, according to government forecasts. So is turning seawater into drinking water a solution for the South West?While some countries rely on the process known as desalination, the British Isles' only fully operational plants are in…

Protests have taken place at three hospitals against proposed job cuts to save £49m. Rallies took place at Treliske Hospital in Truro, West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance and at St Michael's Hospital, Hayle, on Thursday. UNISON said it was meeting with Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) to discuss the cuts, which it said would likely result in 250 jobs being at risk, including 150 in admin.RCHT said it was looking at possible redeployment within its hospitals and across…