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Government offers top-price for Cornwall’s offshore wind energy – but the profits will go to Sweden
By Peter Tremayne The government has confirmed that it is to pay a highly lucrative price for wind energy generated off the Cornwall coast. The money will go to...
- Peter Tremayne
- 7th July 2022
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Boris Johnson used government jet “as personal taxi” to fly family from Cornwall to London
By Julia Penhaligon Boris Johnson has been accused of using a government jet as a “personal taxi” to fly him from Cornwall to London last month. The Sunday Mirror...
- Julia Penhaligon
- 3rd July 2022
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The curious case of the five-year delay between closing three of Cornwall’s hospitals and then doing anything useful
By Anne North Health chiefs have still made no decision about the futures of community hospitals at Saltash and Fowey, which have both been closed for more than five...
- Anne North
- 1st July 2022
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Boris Johnson must go, says St Ives MP Derek Thomas, so that we can have a “real Conservative” as Prime Minister
By Julia Penhaligon St Ives Conservative MP Derek Thomas has further distanced himself from Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a blistering attack during a television interview. Mr Thomas told...
- Julia Penhaligon
- 29th June 2022
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What future for Hayle’s Loggans Mill? Council declares exclusion zone around unsafe building
By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council has sealed off an historic mill and bakery in Hayle amid concerns that the building might collapse. But local people are already protesting that...
- Rashleigh MacFarlane
- 3rd June 2022
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Carbis Bay Hotel starts to knock down its “G7 meeting rooms,” built without planning permission
By Rashleigh MacFarlane Work appears to have started to demolish the “G7 meeting rooms” built without planning permission at the Carbis Bay hotel last year. The chalet-style huts were...
- Rashleigh MacFarlane
- 27th April 2022
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Downing Street Party-gate: St Ives MP Derek Thomas is still waiting for Sue Gray report
By Julia Penhaligon St Ives MP Derek Thomas has said he is still waiting for the report of senior civil servant Sue Gray before finally taking a position about...
- Julia Penhaligon
- 13th April 2022
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