CLICK THE “As I Please” LINK (ABOVE) TO REGISTER AND READ THIS FREE ARTICLE By Graham Smith For entirely political reasons, central government has been keen to transfer responsibility for managing Covid-19 ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Falmouth University has dropped 22 places in the latest Sunday Times Good University Guide. Falmouth had been ranked 72nd but has now fallen to 94th. Exeter University, which offers a ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The Western Morning News has appointed Philip Bowern as editor. Founded in 1860, the WMN is Cornwall’s only daily local newspaper.  It now has an average daily circulation of ...

By Anne North The St Germans and Mellion area has come off the Public Health “watch list” of Covid-19 clusters, after the number of cases there fell below three. Despite this, the ...

By Anne North Public Health England (PHE) South West and Cornwall Council have this afternoon (Friday) issued a statement saying they are aware of a number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 ...

By Anne North The government’s South West “R” number for Covid-19 could be the highest in the country, at 1.6, according to data published today (Friday.)  At the same time, say ...

By Richard Whitehouse A cross-party group of Cornwall councillors will call on all members of the council to support submitting “strong objections” to the government’s proposals to change the planning system. The ...

By Anne North Cornwall has recorded 76 new cases of Covid-19 since the schools went back earlier this month, according to government data.  Another five people have tested positive in the ...

By Richard Whitehouse Standing at the heart of Trefresa Farm the smile on Will Hermann’s face is wide as he explains how he aims to create a boutique resort on the ...

By Peter Tremayne Unemployment in Cornwall fell slightly during August, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics. The total number of jobless people claiming benefit in Cornwall in ...

By Richard Whitehouse A plan to limit the number of times that people would be able to visit the dump has been put on hold due to concerns about costs. The postponement ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council has been shortlisted in three categories for this year’s Municipal Journal awards, celebrating excellence in local government. County Hall is challenging for the prize of “Leadership in ...

By Peter Tremayne The Newquay spaceport project is “absolutely not dead in the water,” according to Cornwall Council, as the authority tried to explain why it is pulling £5.6 million from ...

By Julia Penhaligon The Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, established in 1991 to run the county’s main acute hospital, is to be “acquired” by the Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust to form a ...

By Graham Smith The 10 members of Cornwall Council’s ruling cabinet will sit down in front their computer screens this morning (Wednesday) to consider a wide-ranging “transformation” programme unaware that officials ...

By Peter Tremayne A Cornwall College student is among those who have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past week. A further 18 cases have been confirmed in Cornwall in the past ...

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council’s chief executive could be about to get authority to spend £18 million without further reference to the elected cabinet. The money appears to be to help move ...

By Richard Whitehouse Fancy living in a home on Prince Charles’ Nansledan estate? If you do make sure your washing line can’t be seen from the street, you don’t have a ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall’s health chiefs have refused to disclose the basis for this winter’s Covid-19 planning because they fear it could lead to panic and stockpiling, according to an official ...

By Richard Whitehouse Plans to regenerate a former cattle market site and build a new space for creative businesses have been granted approval. Cornwall Council’s east sub-area planning committee has granted planning ...

CLICK THE “As I Please” LINK (ABOVE) TO REGISTER AND READ THIS FREE ARTICLE By Graham Smith Whose fish are they anyway?  It’s a question which probably doesn’t bother the fish themselves, ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall needs to “up its game” if it is to succeed in its declared ambition to protect wildlife, according to a new report, which calls for a step-change ...

By Richard Whitehouse With new plans unveiled this week for the long-awaited beach development at Carlyon Bay the ongoing saga took another step to becoming reality. The area has a rich history ...

By Richard Whitehouse Cornwall Council and Plymouth City Council will continue to press the Government to provide money to cover the loss of income on the Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferry ...

By Graham Smith About 30 protestors staged a peaceful, socially-distanced demonstration in Wadebridge on Friday evening to highlight the loss of their local leisure centre. The swimming pool, gym, sports hall and ...

By Richard Whitehouse and Julia Penhaligon Households in Cornwall will see their council tax bills rise by at least £30 a year next April.  The actual increase is likely to be ...

By Graham Smith Plans to build a spaceport at Newquay look set to take a massive blow next week when Cornwall Council’s ruling cabinet decides to pull more than half of ...

By Richard Whitehouse The Council of Europe has criticised the British government for failing to carry out its responsibilities in promoting the Cornish language. A new report has been published which criticises ...

By Richard Whitehouse Nightclubs have been told that they can reopen their doors, but only if they operate as pubs and have no music or dancing. Cornwall Council’s licensing team has explained ...

By Graham Smith Details are starting to emerge of the 200 job losses at Cornwall Council, as the authority tries to present its 2021 budget proposals as a positive idea. Council staff ...

By Graham Smith Senior Cornwall Council managers are this morning (Wednesday) learning details of which buildings could be declared surplus, as the authority prepares to launch formal redundancy talks tomorrow (Thursday.) There ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The families of children who are excluded from school have been told of a new 10-year contract with the Trust which provides their education. The Camborne-based Wave Multi-Academy Trust ...

By Peter Tremayne Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit company – the only company in the world planning to use Newquay as a spaceport – has updated its “service policy” in a bid ...

By Peter Tremayne People who drive to their local household waste recycling centre will be restricted to only one trip per fortnight, under a new regime to be considered by Cornwall ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Residents in the tiny hamlet of Newton-in-St Martin, on The Lizard, are trying to rescue their local pub – which is up for sale and at risk of ...

By Richard Whitehouse Plans to build six large new houses on the outskirts of Truro have been refused permission after councillors said that the site was in open countryside. Epernay Consultants had ...

By Richard Whitehouse Plans to demolish a former hotel in Newquay and replace it with a modern block of flats have been refused planning permission. The planning application to pull down the ...

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council is today (Tuesday) launching an appeal for 200 voluntary redundancies. There are few details at the moment, but the council is inviting people who want to leave ...

By Graham Smith Councillors are preparing to defend Cornwall against plans to merge the county with Devon, Somerset and Dorset in what would be the biggest and most radical shake-up of ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The government’s “Eat Out to Help Out” scheme, which cost taxpayers £180 million to subsidise the hospitality sector, saw North Cornwall top the local “league table” for cut-price ...

By Peter Tremayne Pressure is growing on Cornwall Council to pay extra to reopen some of the leisure centres which its private management company insists must stay closed because of financial ...

By Graham Smith An “investigation” by Cornwall Council leader Julian German, into a serious accident which ended a Cormac worker’s career, has failed to produce any report. In April, Mr German wrote ...

By Richard Whitehouse and Julia Penhaligon Scandal-hit housing secretary Robert Jenrick has visited Cornwall to tell Conservative party supporters and local government figures that his proposed reform of planning rules are ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Book lovers in Liskeard will have to wait quite a while before they are able to return to the town’s Passmore Edwards library, despite the imminent conclusion of ...

By Graham Smith St Austell and Newquay MP Steve Double has criticised the government’s HS2 rail project, designed to create 22,000 construction jobs, as a vanity project.  Work started formally on ...

By Daniel Clark Public transport across Devon and Cornwall faces an uncertain future unless people get back on the buses and trains. The Peninsula Transport Shadow Sub National Transport Body  heard that ...

By Peter Tremayne The financial impact of Covid-19 on the Tamar Bridge and Torpoint ferry operation is so severe that there could be “major reductions to services,” according to a new ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall’s world-class mining engineering degree course is to be “paused” with no new students admitted next year. The move, by the University of Exeter, has sparked fears that the ...

By Graham Smith Next week a group of 13 Cornwall councillors will sit down in front of their computer screens for a brief virtual meeting designed to vote one of them ...

By Richard Whitehouse Truro’s popular City of Lights parade will not be going ahead this year along with a number of other Christmas events in the city. Details of the festive events ...