NEWQUAY’S most iconic building will glow purple as part of a worldwide awareness campaign.

The Huer’s Hut will be lit up to highlight World Pancreatic Cancer Day, as part of the annual UK Purple Lights for pancreatic cancer campaign on Thursday, November 20.

Resident Terry Dixon, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2022, organised for the Huers Hut to be lit up purple for the first time in November 2023. Despite his ill health Terry gathered there with friends and family to raise awareness of the disease that was going to end his life early. Sadly, Terry died on January 26, 2024, but his wife Zoe asked people to make donations at his funeral instead of sending flowers to enable the purple lights campaign to continue in future years.

Working with Newquay Lions and Newquay Town Council the donations were used to purchase the lighting so that the Huers Hut can be lit up every year in Terry’s memory. In addition, the purchase of lighting means that these lights can be used to light the building in different colours for other purposes, subject to necessary permissions.

Zoe Dixon said: “I am so pleased that we are able to give something back to the community and for it to be done in Terry’s memory. He would be so proud to leave such a legacy for his adopted and much cherished home of Newquay.

“This year I will be joined by Leo Merrikin aged 8, a fellow Treloggan resident, who sadly lost his grandad in February this year to Pancreatic Cancer. Leo has been raising funds throughout 2025 for Pancreatic Cancer charities, and we are so proud of him so on Purple lights day both of our families will stand together with our friends at the Huer’s Hut to keep raising awareness of this particularly harsh disease that has the lowest survival rate of all cancers.”