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''The Cornish Times'' is a weekly newspaper, published every Friday from offices in Liskeard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The offices are currently based in the former Webb's Hotel building (now called Webb's House). It covers all of South East Cornwall, including Callington, Fowey, Liskeard, Looe, Saltash and Torpoint. It has the image of a chough as an emblem on its front page. It is owned by the Tindle Newspaper Group. ==History== ''The Cornish Times'' was first published on Saturday 3 January 1857. A complete set of microfilm copies of ''The Cornish Times'' can be examined at the Cornish Studies Centre in Redruth. Cover price of the first edition was one old penny. Unlike today, it covered local and national as well as international news. Articles in the first edition included: *St. Petersburg, Russia, on a convention of Russia and Persia. *Copper ores for sale in Redruth *Mining information and activity around all of Cornwall *The address of the President of the United States *Crime in Tyne and Wear, England *The state of Nicaragua *Details of the execution of child murderer William Jackson, of Chester, England. The first publishers were E. Philp of Callington and J. Philp of Liskeard.〔Facsimile of first edition, published free with The Cornish Times in 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Cornish Times」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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