By Rashleigh MacFarlane The Environment Agency has agreed to allow Cornwall’s incinerator a 16% increase in the amount of rubbish it burns this year, because Covid-19 has led to a big ...

By Graham Smith Cornwall’s farmers are studying the detail of the new “seven-year transition period” which is due to start within weeks – ending the Basic Payment Scheme which has, on ...

By Richard Whitehouse New plans to build a hotel and holiday villas on a site in St Ives have been met with opposition by local residents. An outline planning application has been ...

By Richard Whitehouse A building which was a former home of St Austell Brewery is set to be converted into housing. Tregonissey House in the centre of St Austell is a four-storey ...

By Bert Biscoe Behind newly cleaned plate glass in every street in Truro there are nimble fingers setting out, artfully displaying, pricing, dusting, polishing – outside are carpenters, glaziers, painters – ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall’s education chiefs are looking at ways to reduce the numbers of pupils being excluded from school. There is concern at County Hall over the sharp increase in recent ...

By Peter Tremayne There are increasing signs that a decision about the long-term future of high -profile clothes’ stores in Cornwall will be taken by accountants Deloitte tomorrow (Monday.) Dorothy Perkins at ...

By Julia Penhaligon Furious Conservative MPs are preparing for a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday in a bid to make more precise the government’s “blunt instrument” of Covid-19 ...

By Richard Whitehouse and Julia Penhaligon People in Cornwall have been urged to remain vigilant and follow all public health guidelines when the Duchy enters the lowest Tier One restrictions next ...

By Peter Tremayne The 13th century Bush Inn at Crosstown, Morwenstow, is a fine old pub deservedly popular with locals and visitors.  It could soon become even more popular, thanks to ...

By Anne North Cornwall is to be in Tier 1 for Covid-19 restrictions, the government has announced.  Devon is to be in Tier 2. This means the rules governing pubs will be ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council has published details of how it will ensure government funding reaches families in need of support in time for the Christmas holidays next month. The authority has ...

By Richard Whitehouse Cornwall councillors have called for more to be done to ensure care staff have the same access to coronavirus testing as staff in the NHS. Concerns have been raised ...

By Anne North More than 100 workers at the Kepak meat processing factory in Bodmin have tested positive for Covid-19. They are now self-isolating following action by public health officials. A total of ...

By Richard Whitehouse and Julia Penhaligon A Cornish MP has said that “we can safely assume” that Cornwall will be in Tier One once the current Covid lockdown ends next week. The ...

By Graham Smith There was nothing “scandalous” about the arrangements which allowed a property developer to make a profit of £1.35 million on a small piece of land needed for Truro ...

By Peter Tremayne Integrated ticketing for students using Go Cornwall buses, allowing free travel in many rural areas, will not be available for the start of the new term in January, ...

By Anne North Cornwall looks set to be confirmed as a Tier 1 area for Covid-19 restrictions when the government makes a formal announcement on Thursday. The government is gambling that new ...

By Peter Tremayne The government has approved a £1.6 million bail-out to subsidise the costs of using the Tamar Bridge. The announcement means plans to increase the cost of the “Tamar Tag,” ...

By Graham Smith The promised review of Cormac-gate is due to come under the spotlight tomorrow (Tuesday) when Cornwall Council leader Julian German is due to answer a public question about ...

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council paid £1.45 million for a small piece of land outside Truro which three years earlier changed hands for only £100,000.  The land increased in value by ...

By Julia Penhaligon Landowners in Hayle are vowing to fight what they regard as “bullying” by Cornwall Council as the authority tries to acquire sites to progress its “masterplan” for housing ...

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council’s promise to “review” its handling of a four-year-old serious industrial accident appears to be heading for its first political showdown on 8th December, when the Customers ...

By Graham Smith The promise of Cornwall Council leader Julian German to set up an independent “review” of the Cormac-gate scandal has run into problems in less than a week. Six days ...

By Graham Smith The firm which operates most of Cornwall’s leisure centres has pulled out of a contract at Swindon, signalling a retreat from its huge outsourcing operation which could have ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane More than 13,000 children in Cornwall who rely on free school meals are to be offered £15-per-week vouchers to help them through the Christmas holiday. The scheme will be ...

By Julia Penhaligon Complaints about dog mess on beaches have nearly doubled in two years, according to a new Cornwall Council report. The report is part of a review of this year’s ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane It could be next summer before the St Dennis incinerator roof is repaired, according to a new report.  Experts have been asked to consider a fundamental re-design in ...

By Julia Penhaligon Covid-19 has closed another large secondary school in Cornwall.  At the same time, public health officials have issued a warning about a Covid-19 outbreak at a food processing ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The Tall Ships festival has announced it plans to return to Falmouth next year, after original hosts Dunkirk pulled out. Up to 40 large sailing ships hope to start ...

By Anne North Cornwall is unlikely to return to its “Tier 1” status when the national Covid-19 lockdown ends on 2nd December, a government advisor has warned. Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical ...

By Peter Tremayne Launceston’s historic White Hart hotel has new owners, for the second time in two years. Built in the early 17th century, it is Launceston’s only hotel.  The Grade 2 ...

By Anne North Cornwall’s health chiefs are preparing to hammer the final nails into the coffin of the Edward Hain hospital, St Ives, as they now discuss openly the prospects for ...

By Anne North St Austell and Newquay MP Steve Double has become one of the first people in Cornwall to take part in government trials of a potential anti-Covid-19 vaccine. Mr Double ...

By Julia Penhaligon The row over free school meals during holidays is set to intensify next week when Cornwall Council is invited to lock horns with local MPs who had previously ...

By Anne North Care home bosses are watching with interest the progress of a new “rapid-Covid-19-testing” pilot scheme for visitors which started in Cornwall yesterday (Monday.) Cornwall is one of only three ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council will be forced to defend in court its approval of planning permission for a large house in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Rame Protection Group ...

By Peter Tremayne Cornwall’s business leaders have hired consultants to report on the prospects of a freeport – a de-regulated onshore tax haven which some Conservative politicians think could stimulate post-Brexit ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council has set up a dedicated Covid Enforcement Team to deal with Coronavirus-related concerns and complaints seven days a week. Dubbed by some as “The Snitch Team” they ...

By Julia Penhaligon Some of Cornwall’s rough sleepers could soon be on their way to a new home in the heart of Truro’s commercial sector.  Chough House, in River Street (right) ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The failure of Cornwall’s Wave Hub project has presented County Hall with a new problem – what to do with £300,000 earmarked for compensating local fishing interests in ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Covid-19 has forced the closure of Callington Community College, a large secondary school with more than 900 pupils, because there are not enough staff to operate the site ...

By Peter Tremayne H&A Recycling Ltd, of Redruth, has been fined £200,000 after a worker was crushed to death in an industrial waste compactor. Dale McClelland, 23, became trapped inside the machine ...

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By Graham Smith Cornwall Council has bowed to pressure and conceded a new “review” of what happened to cause a serious industrial accident at a Cormac yard in 2016. Council leader Julian ...

By Peter Tremayne Cornwall Council has secured a new agreement with a hotel should it need to provide accommodation for vulnerable patients discharged from hospital who cannot return to residential care. Councillor ...

By Peter Tremayne Newquay Airport will continue to welcome passengers arriving from Covid-19 hotspots, Cornwall Council leader Julian German said yesterday (Wednesday.) Mr German told reporters that although the council could close ...

By Peter Tremayne The number of people out of work and claiming benefit in Cornwall has fallen again – for the third consecutive month – but is still 7,300 higher than ...

By Graham Smith A handful of Cornwall councillors will tomorrow (Thursday) settle down to start trying to answer questions about how their £1.2 billion authority should spend its budget – whether ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Another leak inquiry is underway at Cornwall Council, as officials try to find out who released confidential information about land values at Hayle. The information was contained in the ...