Newsquay started as a simple question: where does someone actually go to find out what's happening in this town? Not "Newquay the surf brand" — the real one, where the buses run late, the bins go out on Thursdays, and the AFC result matters more to most people than the tide times, except on the mornings it doesn't. There wasn't one answer. Council news lived on one site, transport on three others, the funeral notices in a newspaper half of Newquay no longer buys, and the football results on a noticeboard nobody walks past. Newsquay is our attempt to put all of it in one place.
We're not a newsroom. We don't send reporters to council meetings or knock on doors — the reporting is done by the outlets and organisations you see credited under every story (BBC Cornwall, the town council, local clubs, charities and emergency services among them), and every item links straight back to them. What we build is the layer underneath: pulling those sources together automatically every couple of hours, cleaning up the mess of formats they arrive in, and laying it out so you can scan a morning's worth of Newquay news, bus times and match results in the time it takes the kettle to boil. The A-Z directory is the one part of the site that isn't pulled from a feed — every entry in it has been checked by hand against the business or service's own listing, corrected where the internet had it wrong, and is re-audited every few months so it doesn't quietly go stale.
Coverage spans the north Cornwall coast from Crantock and Holywell Bay in the south to Mawgan Porth and Bedruthan Steps in the north, with a focus on Newquay town and its immediate hinterland.
Newsquay is an independent community project — not a media company, and not a council initiative. It carries no political affiliation and no commercial backing beyond the advertising that keeps it free to read. If a source is wrong, out of date, or missing, that's worth knowing about — email below and it'll get fixed.