Just like fishing - this has everything!

You'll laugh, cry and laugh and cry some more when you see this - something to warm the cockles of your heart over Christmas - nice one guys!

With the awesome Danny Mays and Fishermen's Friends - one and all.

Live! - Porthleven Art Lightshow - from 6:30pm on Sunday

Weather permitting you can watch the Porthleven Art Auction Lightshow live here.  On the evening anniversary of the storm, all the pieces of art that have been created for the auction will be projected onto the Porthleven clock tower for everyone to see.

Newlyn Fish Festival makes a £10,000 donation to the FishMish!

Newlyn Fishermen's Mission is £10,000 better off today after Kevin Bennets, director of the Newlyn Fish Festival team handed over a cheque to a grateful mission superintendent, Keith Dixon.

From L-R, Keith Dickson, John Lander, Elisabeth Bolitho, Steve Ryman, Leah Hartwell, Janette Eathorne, Andy Wheeler, Kevin Bennets and Julian Waring.

Celebrated in proper job Cornish style with a pasty and jam with clotted cream scones in the new Fish Festival headquarters... 

the donation has come at a time when a run of poor weather has undoubtedly made the lives of some fishing families, especially those working smaller boats from remote coves and harbours even more difficult.  Although the 'FishMish' still has an office and of course the Memorial Chapel in the old mission building Keith and his team are now free to spend more of their time out in the community talking and serving more closely with fishing families in their homes.

In the next few days Mission skipper Keith will launch a Twitter news service that will inform anyone who needs to know when and where the team will be as they make their regular round of port calls throughout Cornwall.

£35,000 raised so far - that's a whole heap of salt!

Hot off the press!

Enough to fill a Newlyn pilchard press salt cellar - sales of 'Salt of the Earth', the book of the portraits of the people who make Newlyn the unique fishing port it is have now exceeded £35 thousand pounds for @thefishmish !

Book launch - Salt of the Earth at the Mission tonight

A name synonymous with fish, fishing and fishermen!

At last, the day has arrived when the public will get a chance to see all 200 of the local fishing community captured in book form by portrait photographer David Penprase in the book Salt of the Earth which has just been published as a fundraising project that captures the people, mainly fishermen who make the community Newlyn what it is......

fishermen like these two who if you know them you will see something of the person captured so well by David Penprase...

the Mission centre in Newlyn is sadly planned for selling off by the charity RNMDSF as it finds it can no longer support big, expensive building in fishing ports that it has so wonderfully served for over 100 years and instead is focusing on supporting Mission staff in their services to the community...

well know skippers like Don Liddicoat and his family feature...

as do a host of other skippers and fishermen...

and the next generation to follow in their boots...

sometimes it's an unmistakable hat like Cap'n Cod's...

or in Joe Crow's case his minuscule mutt - just the kind of dog you would expect from a regular in a pub that featured in Sky TV's series, Britain's Most Dangerous pubs...

is to serve fishing communities up and down the country...

and part of what makes the port a living, working fishing community with a bright future!