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- Huffing Puffing Billies EXCLUSIVE: the spending on Cornwall Council’s latest vanity project has started 3 July 2026
- The curious case of the Doc Martin farm which Cornwall Council plans to dispose of without any open market sale, creating only two homes per acre 1 July 2026
- The curious case of how Delabole found itself at the centre of the UK ship repair business 14 June 2026
- The race to be racist: Restore Britain now has five branches in Cornwall 10 June 2026
- Local government in Tintagel staggers back to life, sort of 5 January 2026
- Slippy slidey icy road puts paid to today’s bus timetable 5 January 2026
- Can local democracy stagger back to life in Tintagel? 30 December 2025
- Tintagel parish council in crisis, part 94 of a continuing series 6 November 2025
- Councillors vote 6-4 to say “no” to hot rocks power station at North Cornwall beauty spot 25 September 2025
- “Ben vs Tim” hot rocks power station planning contest returns for another round 17 September 2025
- Tim says Ben is about to join Reform and Ben says Tim is silly: two of Cornwall’s most-easily excitable politicians go toe-to-toe 4 September 2025
- Camelford: with its bypass plans finally consigned to history, council is now considering solutions for lorries rather than people 21 July 2025
- Decision on “King Arthur’s” hot rocks power station deferred for more technical details 10 July 2025
- That’s the way the money goes: County Hall has wasted millions on Camelford bypass plans 10 July 2025
- Hot rocks energy project in North Cornwall threatens site of King Arthur’s last battle 2 July 2025
- Game over for Camelford bypass 25 June 2025
- Coming soon: the Blisland open-air sewage swamp, unless the new Liberal Democrat council boss changes policy set by previous Conservative administration 22 June 2025
- Cold Northcott wind farm to get huge new turbines 12 June 2025
- Urgent correction: Chris Batters is not chairman of Cornwall’s strategic planning committee, says parish council – at least, not yet 5 June 2025
- Plan for huge windfarm on Bodmin Moor to be determined next week 3 June 2025
- Pollution kills River Allen fish 5 May 2025
- Victory for local residents in North Cornwall seaweed war 6 April 2025
- Don’t buy Cathedral cheddar, say dairy farmers, as Davidstow factory terminates their contracts 20 February 2025
- Bird flu in Bodmin 10 February 2025
- EXCLUSIVE: Council hopes the Blisland bog will take the brakes off for North Cornwall property developers 26 January 2025
- Devolution: “home rule” confirms the closure of seven adult education centres in Cornwall 20 December 2024
- Farmers vs Teachers: bid to bring inheritance tax politics into the classroom leaves girls suspended for a day 22 November 2024
- Threat to Cornwall’s adult education service – just 12 months after devolution 21 November 2024
- Teenager arrested after fatal car crash near St Tudy 3 November 2024
- Plans for 200-acre solar farm in North Cornwall rejected 15 August 2024
- Who wants a Camelford bypass? Er, good question 12 August 2024
- St Breward takes back control: villagers unite to run their own community shop 7 August 2024
- Transport Secretary to discuss rail links in North Cornwall 30 July 2024
- Are Looe’s flood defence scheme and Camelford’s bypass about to disappear into the government’s £22 billion black hole? 29 July 2024
- North Cornwall seaweed wars: news from the front 28 July 2024
- New Polzeath car park closes as County Hall pursues its “devolution” agenda 25 July 2024
- Motorists warned to avoid Camelford town centre because of unsafe building 29 June 2024
- North Cornwall’s seaweed wars: here come the lawyers 21 June 2024
- General Election 2024: the bookies again shorten their odds on a Lib Dem victory in North Cornwall – where the Greens could beat Labour 19 June 2024
- Labour Party has a Parliamentary candidate for North Cornwall 31 March 2024
- What else can you do when your football team has just lost a 7 goal thriller in the final minute of extra time? 21 March 2024
- Is this the launch of Cornwall’s Tory farewell closing-down sale? 21 March 2024
- North Cornwall’s seaweed wars: this week sees two chances to find out what they are really all about 26 February 2024
- North Cornwall’s seaweed wars: the first shot was fired at the bottom of page 36 19 February 2024
- Camelford bypass: the cracks appear already 9 February 2024
- North Cornwall’s Lib Dems get their man 5 February 2024
- Camelford’s golden mile: the traditional election-year bypass promise would now cost a staggering £147 million 31 January 2024
- Cornwall’s first “constructed wetlands” – aiming to prevent sewage polluting the River Camel – come a step closer 30 January 2024
- Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: County Hall’s cunning plan to revive the Camelford bypass 11 January 2024
- When the wind blows 3 January 2024
- Hundreds without electricity in North Cornwall 3 January 2024
- Watch out for floods, Environment Agency warns North Cornwall 1 January 2024
- Camelford’s “metric martyrs” now just a footnote in history, as government declares there is no way back for pounds and ounces 27 December 2023
- Police say North Cornwall rave is “unacceptable” 27 December 2023
- Boxing Day: a good day for Fantastic Mr Fox to stay at home 26 December 2023
- Swamped: Cornwall’s developers told they can carry on house-building provided they help create new sewage bogs close to protected wildlife sites 12 December 2023
- County Hall pushes ahead with plan to axe school transport 6 December 2023
- Sits Vac: Liberal Democrats seek new Parliamentary candidate for North Cornwall 13 November 2023
- The Battle for Trevalga: big money won, leaving locals to wonder what happens next 10 October 2023
- Camelford by-pass not dead, insists North Cornwall MP 8 October 2023
- A30 on Bodmin Moor to close tonight while police investigate fatal accident 24 September 2023
- National Trust adds another piece to the Tintagel jigsaw 29 August 2023
- Tales of the Riverbank: Tories set to dump more sewage into Cornwall’s rivers in bid to protect house builder profits 29 August 2023
- Bodmin man sent to secure mental hospital after threatening staff at office of local MP 23 August 2023
- Hands up if you would like to be Labour’s Parliamentary candidate in North Cornwall or St Ives 14 August 2023
- Hot rocks power station for Camelford? 17 July 2023
- Much of Cornwall at “very high risk” of wildfires, says Met Office 15 June 2023
- St Breward’s village shop set to close, while the Isles of Scilly observes the end of an era 23 April 2023
- Multi-million pound spending schemes will continue to escape scrutiny, as councillors agree an “action plan” which will not change anything 22 April 2023
- EXCLUSIVE – Camelford bypass “could be shorter” and make greater use of existing B-road 22 March 2023
- Helland Bridge badly damaged by another lorry, only six months after it reopened 24 February 2023
- Camelford by-pass: County Hall sends its thoughts about a cheaper road to Whitehall 22 February 2023
- Strictly for the birds: starlings do their thing on Bodmin Moor 13 February 2023
- Hot Fuzz: police add to their arsenal of crime-busting kit with new four-wheel-drive buggy 13 February 2023
- Boxing Day hunts continue to provoke controversy 26 December 2022
- Back To Brown: County Hall tells North Cornwall property developers they can resume dumping sewage in the rivers 19 December 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: The government still hasn’t told us that the Camelford bypass is not going to happen, says Cornwall Council, as costs reach £69 million. 5 December 2022
- Ten of Cornwall’s leisure centres at risk of shorter opening hours 23 November 2022
- King Arthur’s bridge conquers the rest of Britain – now takes on the world 23 November 2022
- Bude crematorium gets the go-ahead as planners vote 7-4 to back project 18 November 2022
- Davidstow cheese factory still upsetting local residents, despite £1.5 million fine 9 November 2022
- Who killed the Camelford by-pass? County Hall blame game over how costs nearly doubled in three years 28 October 2022
- Back to the drawing board – £6.5 million and three years wasted, as government dismisses Cornwall Council’s Camelford by-pass proposals as “poor value for money” 27 October 2022
- St Austell link road makes progress, but Camelford by-pass could fall victim to Halloween budget 16 October 2022
- New phosphate calculator aims to change the way planners view pollution of the River Camel, where a development embargo has been in place for 18 months 13 October 2022
- Home Office “wanted to use Camelot Castle for asylum-seekers” claims Tintagel hotel owner 12 October 2022
- The Battle for Trevalga: locals rally to protest the sale of their homes 11 October 2022
- Christmas tree nursery damaged by fire 10 October 2022
- North Cornwall hotel, closed by Covid in 2020, could be converted to two detached houses 9 October 2022
- Truro stadium, Camelford by-pass and Looe Valley cycle trail – Cornwall Council’s axe swings at the low-hanging fruit 4 October 2022
- North Cornwall MP Scott Mann gets key role in animal welfare at Defra 25 September 2022
- Tintagel castle in danger of falling into the sea, says English Heritage 23 September 2022
- Bude crematorium planning battle approaching the finish line 7 September 2022
- Cornwall burning: fire at Glebe Cliff, Tintagel 29 August 2022
- The Battle for Trevalga reaches Westminster, as Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries orders Charity Commission to investigate 17 August 2022
- How to ensure a clear water revival? River Camel and its tributaries remain plagued by pollution problems 14 July 2022
- The Queen is not amused: Davidstow cheese factory could lose its Royal seal of approval over Bodmin Moor pollution 30 June 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: Marlborough College puts entire North Cornwall hamlet on the market (again) 28 June 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: The 30 year secret which describes how health officials considered trying to silence one of their fiercest critics over the Camelford water poisoning disaster 27 June 2022
- Davidstow cheese factory fined £1.5 million for pollution offences 24 June 2022
- “Doc Martin” surgery in North Cornwall, closed for two years because of Covid, might never reopen 22 June 2022
- Rave On: Davidstow’s “Not The Jubilee” party continues to irritate some locals 5 June 2022
- The wrong kind of Jubilee party has North Cornwall residents up in arms 4 June 2022
- North Cornwall farmer gets his climate protest day in court 20 May 2022
- David Flower, former TV repair man, photographer and Tintagel local news website pioneer, dies 8 May 2022
- A bridge too far: Cormac prepares for major engineering task at Helland, as locals urge physical traffic-calming measures to prevent more damage in future 27 April 2022
- Camelford by-pass: the £48.17 million project awaits a government decision as timetable slips 22 February 2022
- Planners again reject proposals for eight bungalows on golf course near Camelford 21 February 2022
- Who should pay to repair Port Isaac’s harbour? 8 February 2022
- Government promises to review “hit and run” laws after being forced to debate fatal accident in North Cornwall 16 November 2021
- Sits Vac: North Cornwall Liberal Democrats seek new Parliamentary candidate 10 November 2021
- Rescue services save four from car roof as Storm Aurore floods St Kew ford 21 October 2021
- Promotion for St Austell and Newquay MP Steve Double in this week’s government reshuffle 18 September 2021
- Twenty years later, and after a long “Metric Martyrs” march to Strasbourg and back, people in Camelford might soon be able to buy a pound of apples once more 17 September 2021
- North Cornwall planning embargo could remain in place for months 7 July 2021
- Call for more walk-in Covid vaccination centres in North and South East Cornwall is “a fair challenge” 23 June 2021
- 15th century Helland Bridge, a Grade 1 scheduled monument, faces long closure after car crash 20 June 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall records its first new cluster for more than a week 26 May 2021
- The Once and Future Kings of Tintagel settle in to their new roles as parish councillors 21 May 2021
- County Hall confirms embargo on new building in part of North Cornwall: full details 27 April 2021
- EXCLUSIVE: Natural England asks Cornwall Council to pause housebuilding because of serious, long-term damage to important wildlife sites 26 April 2021
- All in one place: the full list of the Cornwall Council candidates 10 April 2021
- Tough questions ahead for County Hall, as leisure centres remain closed until the middle of the election campaign 15 March 2021
- “Hitler Youth” group takes a hike on Bodmin Moor to protest against Covid lockdown 9 March 2021
- Budget boost for Okehampton rail link could benefit North Cornwall 4 March 2021
- Canadian cheese giant gets £3.2 million of Cornwall’s “shovel-ready” Covid recovery cash 25 February 2021
- Reopening Cornwall’s branch railway lines: plenty of ideas, but no money for infrastructure 4 February 2021
- “We’ll consider a wide range of business models,” says council, as consultants look at the future of Cornwall’s leisure centres 31 January 2021
- Tintagel parish council ordered to release information, after Commissioner rules that questions were not “vexatious” 3 January 2021
- Covid-19 forces the closure of several Cornish pubs 29 December 2020
- Camelford bypass set to blight the north and west of the town as details emerge of proposed route 10 December 2020
- Under the hammer: the many mansions of Cornwall Council 1 December 2020
- Democracy comes to Delabole, as one of Cornwall’s largest holes-in-the-ground gets its own parish council 15 November 2020
- Suspended jail sentence for Camelford man who punched paramedic 29 September 2020
- “Save Our Pool!” – Wadebridge fears its leisure centre is at the top of County Hall’s “hit list” 13 September 2020
- Some of Cornwall’s indoor swimming pools might never reopen, warns new report 27 August 2020
- Suspended sentence for “hit and run” driver after fatal St Teath accident 9 August 2020
- Leisure centres at Falmouth, Launceston, St Ives, Saltash and Wadebridge will all remain closed until further notice after another “outsourcing” contract goes bad 16 July 2020
- Three more Cornwall councillors in the “dock” over alleged misbehaviour 12 July 2020
- “We’re in the money!” Penzance in line for a multi-million pound windfall, while North and East Cornwall can only wait for crumbs 31 May 2020
- Camelford Show falls victim to the Covid-19 lockdown 21 April 2020
- Question: When is a holiday home not a holiday home? Answer: When the council fails to take action for so long that nobody cares 15 April 2020
- No school on Monday? Keep Calm, Carry On – Malory Towers is coming to the rescue 21 March 2020
- Budget cash for Camelford by-pass 11 March 2020
- This is why Cornwall Council won’t say where the local Covid-19 patients come from 10 March 2020
- Coughs and sneezes don’t just spread diseases – they underline the 5,000-mile connection between Cornwall’s dairy farmers and China 27 February 2020
- Public consultation on proposed Camelford by-pass ends 16th April 17 February 2020
- Labour Parties in North Cornwall and St Ives nominate Emily Thornberry as their leader 12 February 2020
- Health chiefs sacrifice overnight services in North Cornwall in order to treat patients elsewhere 9 January 2020
- Liberal Democrat Disability Association files formal complaint about its own North Cornwall candidate 23 November 2019
- Labour selects Bodmin’s Joy Bassett as its Parliamentary candidate in North Cornwall 23 October 2019
- Two Cornwall councillors in line for national awards 11 October 2019
- “We will fight them on the beaches” – town and parish councils go to war over once-in-a-generation boundary disputes 15 September 2019
- Is Tintagel’s new footbridge causing more harm than good? asks councillor 9 September 2019
- Councillors to debate call to make them walk “dangerous” school routes 5 September 2019
- Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson visits North Cornwall 18 August 2019
- YouGov poll cheers Liberal Democrats in St Ives and North Cornwall 14 August 2019
- EXCLUSIVE: How the roads lobby hijacked air quality and turned it into a by-pass for Camelford 13 August 2019
- Weather delays opening of Tintagel Castle’s new footbridge 7 August 2019
- County Hall to draw up revised plans for Camelford by-pass and ask government to fund new road 31 July 2019
- Tintagel’s new footbridge to the castle will open next week 30 July 2019
- A new look on the cheese counter, as Cornwall’s Dairy Crest re-brands as Saputo 23 July 2019
- Is the man who fell to Earth in Davidstow Britain’s first Libyan boat refugee? 17 July 2019
- County Hall sets its sights on a £42.5 million Camelford bypass by 2023 17 July 2019
- Tintagel Castle footbridge will not be open in time for school holidays 13 July 2019
- Local government Ombudsman rules against Cornwall Council, and in favour of Delabole families, in the long running saga of school bus passes 12 July 2019
- “Illegal immigrant” arrested after falling from underneath lorry at Davidstow 7 July 2019
- North Cornwall MP Scott Mann stands up for Cornish Wrestling 12 June 2019
- Seal died after “ghost gear” net entanglement 10 June 2019
- Controversy rages over Davidstow cheese factory expansion, with planning decision now overdue 10 June 2019
- Camelford man charged with attempted murder 28 May 2019
- Rock rocked by music festival described as “a very good idea in the wrong place” 1 May 2019
- North Cornwall Liberal Democrats select Danny Chambers as their Parliamentary candidate 11 April 2019
- Nearly 30,000 children in Cornwall live in poverty, says Director of Public Health 21 March 2019
- Bodmin councillor Leigh Frost declares he wants to be North Cornwall’s next MP 12 March 2019
- Unite seeks talks with new owners of Davidstow cheese factory 25 February 2019
- Port Isaac Rowing Club’s annual Gig Push raises £600 31 December 2018
- School transport policy which forces 11-year-olds to risk their lives must be reviewed, says Delabole councillor 28 November 2018
- The 30-year campaign for a skatepark in Wadebridge finally goes out to tender 18 September 2018
- EXCLUSIVE: 135 complaints per year. There’s something in the air at Davidstow, as Dairy Crest prepares for controversial expansion 13 September 2018
- Nearly £40 million unspent at County Hall, as Delabole parents face bus pass bills 10 September 2018
- How Cornwall Council could save nearly £12,000 without really trying (and find the money for school bus passes in Delabole) 4 September 2018
- Delabole bus pass row comes to the boil 3 September 2018
- “Insane” County Hall tells Delabole children they must pay-up – or walk to school in Camelford on Tuesday 30 August 2018
- North Cornwall Liberal Democrats look to the future 23 July 2018
- North Cornwall MP Scott Mann quits ministerial role over Brexit 16 July 2018
- Cornwall’s reservoirs holding up well, as long dry spell appears set to end soon 10 July 2018
- “Listen to Delabole,” Prime Minister tells County Hall, as the annual battle of the school bus pass reaches Parliament 5 July 2018
- Prime Minister set to enter the fray as Cornwall Council’s “walk to school” ruling reaches Parliament 4 July 2018
- Delabole petition passes 1,500 as campaigners protest County Hall’s “walk to school” ruling 4 July 2018
- Camelford bypass petition presented to Parliament 29 June 2018
- Camelford care home to close following critical CQC report 18 June 2018
- Council acts to remove elderly residents from Camelford care home after another critical report 16 June 2018
- Countdown to Devonwall? 4 June 2018
- Davidstow creamery gets £75 million cash injection 23 May 2018
- Cornwall Farmers to survive at Wadebridge, Helston and Otterham following sale to Welsh company 4 May 2018
- Cornwall’s secondary school pupils face cut-per-head lottery under new funding formula, as class sizes start to increase 19 April 2018
- The secret jigsaw: how the NHS is Shaping Our Future into a Cornwall of winners and losers, depending on the “Property Asset Scorecard” 23 March 2018
- Heavy snow forecast for Cornwall this afternoon 1 March 2018
- Council pays for refurbishment of eight leisure centres 20 February 2018
- Battle lines drawn for Cornwall Council elections in 2021, as Independents face party political squeeze 14 February 2018
- 87, 88, 89…….that’s not right! Last-minute hitch as councillors crawl towards the boundaries finish line 8 February 2018
- GPs to the rescue? Will your local doctor take the place of your nearest Minor Injury Unit? 1 February 2018
- Cornwall’s libraries: the devolution revolution has been postponed 23 January 2018
- Could Falmouth keep its Minor Injury Unit? New report sheds insights into how health and council bosses are planning the “Kennally Care” future of Cornwall’s community hospitals 18 January 2018
- Named – the ten Minor Injury Units in Cornwall due to close under Accountable Care 3 January 2018
- Defra hails the latest cull “a success” as the North Cornwall badger body count piles up 26 December 2017
- Good news for pet owners as fire crews get new life-saving kit 7 December 2017
- Camelford gets ready for its Big Community Christmas Breakfast 7 December 2017
- National Westminster closes several branches throughout Cornwall 4 December 2017
- Budget was “a missed opportunity” to help clean Cornwall’s air quality blackpsots 26 November 2017
- North Cornwall Lib Dems get ready for the next general election 20 November 2017
- Government says Tintagel Castle footbridge can go ahead 19 November 2017
- Cornwall remembers 13 November 2017
- Camelford bypass campaign gets a boost, as Greens lend their support 2 November 2017
- Cornwall’s foodbanks braced for arrival of Universal Credit 30 October 2017
- Planners vote 13-2 to approve Tintagel Castle footbridge – but government will now have the final say 26 October 2017
- Government intervenes to stop Tintagel Castle footbridge 26 October 2017
- One more week to have your say about Cornwall’s Telehealth service 23 October 2017
- Cornwall’s libraries: the “devolution revolution” is taking longer than expected 20 October 2017
- Dartmoor ponies find a new home 20 October 2017
- Planning officials recommend approval for Tintagel Castle footbridge 19 October 2017
- Devonwall returns, as a theoretical prospect, but the Parliamentary maths remain unchanged – for now 17 October 2017
- The battle for Tintagel Castle’s footbridge approaches its endgame 8 October 2017
- And this is where the lifeboats are – but there are only 87 seats for 123 councillors, as the scramble for places gets underway 29 September 2017
- “Devonwall” constituency now unlikely, as parties gear up for another election 26 June 2017
- No Devonwall, no by-elections: the 2017 General Election will be all about Brexit (again) 18 April 2017
