October sees the two-day stand up paddle surfing tournament in which British champions will be crowned. The British Stand-Up Paddlesurf Association (BSUPA) competition will take place on 13 and 14 October where spectators can witness the paddle surfers compete in a five mile long-distance race and a performance surfing round, where they will have the chance to show off the skills for the judges and waiting crowd. http://www.bsupa.org.uk

Relentless Boardmasters will be giving two Live and Unsigned acts main stage slots at their 2012 festival. Relentless Boardmasters is Europe’s only surf, skate and music festival, in Newquay, Cornwall and it returns on the 8th-12th August 2012. Situated across two legendary locations along the beautiful Cornish coastline, the Relentless Energy Drink in association with Vans will once again return to deliver to the ultimate in the lifestyle we all love. Boardmasters Festival has seen [...]

Check out the fireworks video form the new year celebrations in Newquay. Happy New Year everyone! http://newquaytv.org/archives/1839

Newquay Christmas Events Guide 2011 – (including 12 days of Christmas Events) is available for you to download from Newquay BID http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/images/localpeople/ugc-images/275776/binaries/Nqyxmas.pdf    

Once again Newquay’s best organised bonfire nights is to be held at Porth Beaches Mermaid Inn. The fire and fireworks will be lit from around 7pm Entry is free but staff will be going round with a collection bucket.

An artist and his team are returning to the UK with part of an Arctic island for a £500,000 Olympics art project. Alex Hartley and 18 volunteers excavated about six tonnes of material from an island exposed by a glacier on the Svalbard peninsula in Norway. The material, which was loaded on a schooner sailing vessel, will be sculpted into a piece of art called Nowhere Island. It will be floated along the South West [...]

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 12 August, 2011 : – – Taking place 22 and 23 September, the British Surf Film Festival, to be held at the new Lighthouse Cinema in Newquay and sponsored by Offsure Surf, aims to celebrate the very essence of surf culture, with a selection of old and new surf feature films and documentaries and a launch of the hottest new home-grown talent. The premier showcase for surf film and lifestyle in [...]

The Guardian and Tuaca, the vanilla citrus liqueur, is offering two readers a pair of weekend camping tickets for the Relentless Boardmasters festival in Newquay. The UK’s biggest surf, skate and music festival takes place from 10-14 August. Lucky winners will also be invited to come and enjoy a Tuaca cocktail to the sounds of the top DJs at Relentless Boardmasters’ new Tuaca Point stage. Tuaca can be enjoyed as a chilled shot or with [...]

Relentless Energy Drink is excited to announce that DJ Yoda, Gentleman’s Dub Club, The Skints, Art Brut, Urban Knights, Spokes, The Violet May, Backbeat Soundsystem and I Am Harlequin will be ripping up the Relentless Energy Drink Stage at Relentless Energy Boardmasters 2011 near Newquay Cornwall on 10th – 14th August 2011. With the latest announcement of the Relentless Energy Drink Stage line-up, festival goers can look forward to DJ Yoda’s eclectic set – a [...]

The Cornwall Film Festival will celebrate its 10th birthday this year with a move to a new town, a new coast and a new venue – Newquay The venue for this annual event is the brand-new WTW Lighthouse Cinema, which opened recently and will be the festival’s base over the weekend of 4th – 6th November, 2011. Although the new, four-screen, state-of-the-art, purpose-built, all-digital projection cinema is the perfect place to hold the festival, Newquay [...]

Emerging UK talent to compete for the coveted British title The Billabong British Junior Surfing Championships will descend on Newquay on the 11th and 12th June. This year’s event is being supported by long-time sponsor Billabong, Mojo Futuretech, Ann’s Cottage, Fistral Blu and Calypso. Come down and enjoy the competition, grab yourself some Billabong giveaways tht are being fired out from the catapult or just chill at the beach bar while enjoying some Billabong films. [...]