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Popular annual event Camborne Trevithick Day, which was due to take place next month, has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The celebration of the heritage and mining heritage of the area, focuses on Richard Trevithick, the pioneer of high pressure steam-power.

The community festival offers free entertainment in the main streets of Camborne which are closed for the day, and attracts some 25,000 to 30,000 visitors.

The Trevithick Day Committee have announced that following a meeting on Friday evening, they have made the 'tough decision' to cancel this year’s Trevithick Day, which was due to take place on April 25.

(Image: Colin Higgs)

On its website it has posted a statement which says: "Having held a restricted event at the last minute in 2019 due to the weather, we wanted to provide certainty as early as we could.

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"As we are sure many will appreciate, this decision has not been taken lightly. A great deal of effort has gone into planning and preparing for the event.

"That being said, we feel strongly that the health, safety and wellbeing of our exhibitors, performers, volunteers and general public must be our top priority.

"Any illness amongst volunteers, extra pressure on healthcare resources or new requirements for event organisers places a doubt on public safety on the day.

"The government has stated that the coronavirus outbreak will get worse and there is a risk that at some point they will ban large-scale events.

"We have already seen many sporting events cancelled or postponed, including the London Marathon on April 26. The committee feels that such a ban would mean us incurring substantial losses that may jeopardise future events. By cancelling now we limit those losses.

(Image: Colin Higgs)

"We considered the possibility of postponing to another date, but there is no way of knowing when the impact of the outbreak will be over.

"We also intend to start work on 2021 Trevithick day very soon.

"In fact planning is already underway for what will be a special festival – the 250 anniversary of Richard Trevithick’s birth.

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"We would like to thank everyone, in particular Camborne Town Council, for their continued support for Trevithick Day and look forward to seeing you all in April 2021."

(Image: Sally Adams)

A date has now been confirmed for next year on Saturday, April 24, 2021.

The event was established in 1983 and the community event has quickly become an important part of the Cornish calendar.

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The latest figures on the outbreak of cases in the UK revealed the biggest rise yet.

As of 9am on 14 March 2020, 37,746 people have been tested in the UK, of which 36,606 were confirmed negative and 1,140 were confirmed as positive.

The death toll has risen to 21 after it was confirmed today that another ten COVID-19 patients had died. There have been no new confirmed coronavirus cases in the whole of Devon and Cornwall, latest figures show.

However, the figures released by Public Health England show that there has been no change across Devon, Plymouth and Torbay, while Cornwall's confirmed Covid-19 cases has dropped by one.

It was previously reported there were five cases across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, but Public Health England now state there are four cases.