By Peter Tremayne As Newquay Airport waits anxiously for its £10 million taxpayer bailout, Cornwall’s scrutiny councillors are still waiting for answers to questions they asked on 19th August.  They might ...

By Julia Penhaligon County Hall’s “Fifth Nationalists” are revelling in their ability to dodge the belt-tightening of their new boss, interim deputy chief executive Andy Keeling. In his first week in the ...

By Julia Penhaligon There are signs that some Cornwall councillors are growing in confidence in what they are calling “the post-Kate era.” Cornwall Council has long had a reputation as an officer-led ...

By Graham Smith “The rot became obvious,” a County Hall veteran told Cornwall Reports, “when our own public consultation told us that the citizens of Cornwall saw the council as an ...

By Peter Tremayne Corserv has a new chief finance and commercial officer. John Shute has spent the past seven and a half years working for the online retailer Amazon, based in Seattle ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall is now entering its third month of drought, complete with a ban on hosepipes and the risk of a £1,000 for those who ignore the restrictions. Stithians reservoir ...

By Peter Tremayne No sooner has Newquay spaceport’s sole employee returned to base than he is off again. Ross Hulbert, whose job title is “Head of Engagement,” got back from New Zealand ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Treveth claims that construction at Truro city centre’s notorious “hole in the ground” might start by next summer have been dealt a blow by new concerns about the ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane You might not notice if you were simply out for a walk, but a remote part of Bodmin Moor, near Callington, is suddenly £7 million richer. Test drilling at ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council’s debt increased by nearly £40 million between 1st April and the end of June, according to a new County Hall treasury report. The net increase in only ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council’s debt, equivalent to a £5,800 burden on every local household and which requires weekly payments of £1.2 million to money-lenders simply to service the interest on ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall needs to store huge quantities of food in purpose-built “buffer depots” similar to those seen during World War 2, according to 150 experts who are calling for ...

By Peter Tremayne Newquay spaceport’s 24,000-mile roundtrip to New Zealand, which took place within days of a County Hall ban on all exhibitions and conferences which require travel outside of Cornwall, ...

By Peter Tremayne Newquay Airport is entering a crucial period.  Next week Cornwall councillors get down to the serious business of scrutinising likely budget proposals – with the airport’s demand for ...

By Anne North GPs whose patients are treated at Plymouth’s Derriford hospital have lodged a formal complaint with NHS bosses about a £67 million computer system which is failing to handle ...

By Peter Tremayne Cornwall Football Association has submitted plans for a new 3G pitch, community hub and headquarters to be built at Bodmin Town Football Club’s Priory Park ground. The existing pitch ...

By Harold Callahan Two men charged in connection with a violent disturbance in Truro city centre in August have been released on bail. Seyin Zurel, 24, and Sinjar Zurel, 27, both from ...

By Harold Callahan Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the closure of Bodmin Jail, Cornwall’s last prison.  Criminals, and those awaiting trial, are now locked up hundreds of miles from ...

By Graham Smith Six Cornwall Council cabinet members are due to meet next week to decide how to spend the government’s £30 million Kernow Industrial Growth Fund.  The fund is known ...

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council could save its under-threat school transport by cutting £80 million from its £2.1 billion capital spending programme, an analysis of County Hall spending plans has revealed. The ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall councillors are being denied sight of a “hit list” of under-threat school transport routes while at the same time being told to cut school transport spending by ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane South West Water has been fined £7,867,733 after admitting a series of pollution offences involving untreated sewage at sites across Devon and Cornwall. The company was sentenced at Plymouth ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The Homes Cornwall project, which aims to take around 8% of Cornwall’s publicly-owned farms and turn them into housing estates, appears to be running into serious trouble. The Cornwall ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council cabinet member Tim Dwelly’s continuing absence from County Hall spared him having to deal with several hostile questions at today’s (Tuesday’s) economy scrutiny committee meeting. Councillor Dwelly, ...

By Peter Tremayne Pressure is growing on Cornwall Council to re-establish a properly-constituted committee to supervise Newquay Airport, as scrutiny councillors this morning (Tuesday) vented their frustration that they often find ...

By Julia Penhaligon It is only a week since Cornwall Council’s interim deputy chief executive (can’t we just call him the chief executive? – Ed) Andy Keeling told staff he was ...

By Peter Tremayne Scrutiny councillors meet tomorrow (Tuesday) for what is theoretically a routine run through of a couple of issues which County Hall officials think are safe enough to be ...

By Peter Tremayne The government is putting nearly £10 million into what will be Cornwall’s first lithium mine. Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) aims to produce an initial 1,500 tonnes of technical grade ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The government is giving councils the power to seize homes which have been left empty for more than six months. The move turns the clock back more than 20 ...

By Peter Tremayne Seven days ago Cornwall Council’s so-far-unblemished interim deputy chief executive Andy Keeling issued a stern memo to more than 5,500 staff. We need to save money, he warned, announcing ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council is to submit a joint bid with Devon for funds from the National Jobs Guarantee programme to help teenagers categorised as Not in Education, Employment or ...

By Julia Penhaligon All eyes will be on the Labour Party conference in Liverpool tomorrow (Monday) when chancellor John Healey makes his major set-piece speech – in which he is expected ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Truro’s bonfire night and fireworks’ display will not go ahead this November, Truro City Council has confirmed, marking the second consecutive year the event has been cancelled. The council ...

By Graham Smith The Cornwall Live local news website is to relaunch its “premium” subscription service in a bid to maintain some revenue. Published by Reach PLC, Cornwall Live first announced it ...

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council was unable to give a straight answer this morning (Wednesday) to a public question about Newquay Airport and its audited annual accounts. The question from Cornwall Reports ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council leader Leigh Frost might have to prepare to get “bloody livid.”  He has previously warned that his patience is running thin as he watches nothing happen ...

Recognised officially by the Guiness Book of Records as the largest-ever gathering of people to eat a Cornish cream tea, a total of 2,483 came together at the Royal Cornwall ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The Boardmasters music festival in Newquay last month cost some local businesses more than 20% of their trade, according to feedback collated by the town’s Business Improvement District ...

By Peter Tremayne Very few people try to get elected as local councillors with any desperate ambition to become an auditor.  To say it is unglamorous would be an understatement. (If you ...

By Julia Penhaligon Tax-dodging second home owners in Cornwall are fighting a last-ditch battle to avoid paying more than £15 million in business rates. The issue appears to be coming to a ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane A planning decision about proposals to redevelop Falmouth docks appears to have been delayed again. The £150 million plan was originally supposed to have been determined by July 2025.  ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane South West Water bosses are waiting to see how the government proposes to exert control over the company through the creation of a new board which would have ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council’s borrowing has reached £1.626 billion, according to County Hall’s latest treasury update. This is an increase of nearly £55 million over 12 months – County Hall effectively ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council is preparing to write off bad debts totalling £903,234.59. The sum is much larger than usual and comes before a meeting of the council’s cabinet next week. Most ...

By Peter Tremayne The clock is ticking down towards an individual decision by Cornwall Council cabinet member Tim Dwelly about the future development of Newquay Airport’s 650-acre estate. Council leader Leigh Frost ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane No decisions have been made about Truro City’s ambitious £60 million development project on land earmarked for housing at Langarth, Cornwall Council leader Leigh Frost said yesterday (Tuesday.) Councillor ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall councillors will get the opportunity to vote on any tourist tax before it is introduced, council leader Leigh Frost promised yesterday (Tuesday.) More details of how an Overnight ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council’s labyrinth of arms-length companies are to be reorganised into a single commercial “vehicle” in an attempt to streamline their activities, make them more coherent and develop ...

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council leader Leigh Frost has confirmed that absent chief executive Kate Kennally did not tell him about the negotiated exit settlement hastily agreed in May last year ...

By Peter Tremayne Amy Smith, who resigned as the boss of Newquay Airport in June, has started work as the managing director of Southampton Airport. Ms Smith can now expect to see ...