Cornwall hope to get their Minor Counties season under way at the third attempt on Sunday at Truro as they host Bedfordshire in the MCCA Trophy.

The Duchy’s clash with rivals Devon was called off due to bad weather last week, while the side also saw their opening fixture against Oxfordshire succumb to rain.

With only two games left Cornwall could make the knockout stages with a win.

Not a single match in Cornwall’s group has been played so far due to weather.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver surprised the latest trainees at his Newquay cooking school with a visit to their graduation.

Mr Oliver opened Fifteen Cornwall in 2006, with the aim of giving young people in the county who were in need of a second chance the opportunity to become chefs.

The graduation came after four months of study at Cornwall College and a year’s hands-on experience in the Fifteen Cornwall kitchen, with further placements in other professional kitchens in the UK.

Tracy Page, course manager at Cornwall College, said: “It makes me so proud to see the Fifteen Cornwall chefs graduate each year. To work with them from the very beginning at Cornwall College, seeing them overcome challenges along the way, to the level they are all at now is fantastic.

Householders in Cornwall have been flooding the local authority with more than 1,000 calls a day about missed rubbish collections.

The council said it was working with Cory to identify where the problems were occurring.

The authority said it had received 7,266 reports of missed collections between 10 and 16 April.

With more than 250,000 households have been affected by county-wide changes to collections after Cory Environmental Services took over services on 1 April.

Liberal Democrats on the Conservative-Independent controlled council have called for an inquiry into the “waste shambles”.

Leader Jeremy Rowe said: “There are many other important service contracts which will come up for renewal in the coming years and the council needs to handle them better than it has this one.”

Super-fast broadband has become available to another 95,000 Cornish homes and businesses, it has been reported.

Fibre services are now available to customers served by 52 of Cornwall’s 99 telephone exchanges, as BT continues to roll out next-generation services.

“The technology is already making an important contribution to Cornwall’s future success, boosting the competitiveness of businesses whilst offering new educational and entertainment opportunities for households.

Nigel Ashcroft, Superfast Cornwall Programme Director for the Cornwall Development Company said: “At the start of the programme we set ourselves the ambitious target of rolling out the network to 90,000 Cornish homes and businesses by the end of March,” he stated.

“We more than achieved that target and are now working towards the 100,000 mark, which we expect to reach in the next few weeks.”

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