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  • County Hall officials tremble as councillors reject their “commercially confidential” excuses for making policy in secret 9 October 2026
  • Dramatic increase in fines for not sending children to school 8 October 2026
  • Who should pay for Cornish language lessons in the school classroom? 4 October 2026
  • Which small children will be forced to walk two miles to school along a dangerous country lane? It would be “premature” to tell you, says County Hall 30 September 2026
  • It’s official – even Cornwall Live now accepts that journalism has value 24 September 2026
  • UXB: Falmouth told to prepare for mass evacuation 22 September 2026
  • Cornwall’s heritage chief takes charge at Stonehenge 1 September 2026
  • SEND: when going to school means driving 200 miles 31 August 2026
  • A restored freight railway line into Falmouth docks? Your questions should soon be answered 30 August 2026
  • Geography students lose their way to Falmouth 14 August 2026
  • Cornwall’s school discipline crisis: it wasn’t just the pupils who were bullied, says teaching union 6 August 2026
  • Summer Holiday 2 August 2026
  • Wings for Victory! 31 July 2026
  • Jumpers for goalposts (part 94) 29 July 2026
  • Are you local? The curious case of who is Cornish, who is not Cornish, and where promotion of the Cornish language should sit in the annual budget debate about County Hall spending priorities 29 July 2026
  • Coke-snorting maths teacher banned 16 July 2026
  • Athena Trust quits Cornwall over school discipline row 14 July 2026
  • World Cup Football: will Cornwall be cheering for Mexico? 4 July 2026
  • Heatwave closes more schools in Cornwall 25 June 2026
  • Several schools in Cornwall closing because of heatwave 24 June 2026
  • Man in the news: a new face arriving soon on County Hall’s fourth floor 23 June 2026
  • Ask a silly question: County Hall gets the result it wanted from culture “consultation” 10 June 2026
  • Our approach to culture returns £40 for every £1 invested, claims Cornwall Council 9 June 2026
  • School discipline and local populism: never waste a crisis 8 June 2026
  • “Penzance Pixel hobbyists” enjoyed £100,000 subsidy last year 4 June 2026
  • 15 schools in Cornwall facing immediate cash crisis 27 May 2026
  • Strict discipline rules at Cornwall schools must change, parents tell council 17 May 2026
  • Votes at 16: might this extension of the democratic franchise save Cornwall’s school transport? 14 May 2026
  • Let’s Talk: Cornwall Council’s latest online public consultation tells voters “We are going to spend your money on promoting the Cornish language. There is no alternative” 11 May 2026
  • WW1 ship wreck, which claimed 131 lives, found 50 miles off Newquay 1 May 2026
  • Authorities are “encouraging the use of River Camel as a sewer” 1 May 2026
  • Disgusted of Wadebridge writes: say NO to Maccy D 15 April 2026
  • Cornwall’s educational space camps “paused” due to budget cuts 14 April 2026
  • Synthetic community sports pitch plan dropped 7 April 2026
  • If you’re ever lost on the battlefield and wondering how to escape, there’s a training course in Cornwall which can help 5 April 2026
  • “Something is fundamentally wrong” with overly-strict school disciplinary regime, says councillor 28 March 2026
  • Where exactly would you prefer to feel the pain? Tamar Crossings tells motorists they will have to pay more and there is no alternative 4 March 2026
  • After the gold rush: Imerys switches off its lithium project in Cornwall 21 February 2026
  • “Unleashing potential” vs “back to basics” – it’s a choice between the money-lenders and school buses 19 February 2026
  • 14 years and £35 million later, Cornwall Council finally hands over Heartlands management to the National Trust 18 February 2026
  • That’s the way the money goes: Cornish language will sail under the radar at next week’s budget debate 17 February 2026
  • Fears for future of Torpoint sports centre 13 February 2026
  • EXCLUSIVE: “Fifth nation” adult education, devolved from Whitehall and now run from Truro, brings mixed results 12 February 2026
  • Game over? St Austell’s footballers kicked out of league for not answering emails, and other crimes 10 February 2026
  • Cornwall Council on the road to using its Code of Conduct disciplinary process to answer “what is a woman?” 28 January 2026
  • Empty aeroplanes or school buses? Could next month’s council budget meeting actually witness a real debate? 16 January 2026
  • What’s the first thing you think of when you think of Redruth? Is it most cultured town in the UK? 14 January 2026
  • Tamar Tag U-turn complete, as bridge and ferry bosses are sent back to the drawing board 12 January 2026
  • Schools close ahead of Storm Goretti “weather bomb” 8 January 2026
  • “Back to basics” vs “Unleashing Cornwall’s potential” – a plain English explanation of what it means for County Hall’s budget 2 January 2026
  • The unleashing will continue until the potential is realised! More news from Cornwall’s “Fifth Nation” front 2 January 2026
  • Stranger Things: Cornwall’s upside-down budget thinks Newquay’s subsidised tourist trains and second-home-owners’ planes are more important than school buses 14 December 2025
  • Perranporth “free” school axed 13 December 2025
  • Overdue library book returned just 45 years late 11 December 2025
  • Can Tintagel Parish Council be saved? Visitor centre rumpus threat to local democracy 11 December 2025
  • Flu closes Budehaven community school 10 December 2025
  • Going Dutch: Newquay Zoo is under new ownership 10 December 2025
  • When the boat comes in: debt management advice for Cornish fishermen 4 December 2025
  • We saw it first! Truro City wants priority use of Langarth’s new artificial sports pitch 4 December 2025
  • Jumpers for goalposts: they used to play on grass 26 November 2025
  • When snow falls, nature listens 20 November 2025
  • Cornwall’s children still in need as council forced to abandon “illegal” housing solution 16 November 2025
  • Will there be unicorns? Planners to consider request for North Cornwall wildlife park 10 November 2025
  • Money’s too tight to mention, but there’s still plenty for Cornish language fans 23 October 2025
  • Big boost for Cornwall’s youth services 20 October 2025
  • Another County Hall data breach 28 September 2025
  • Automatic free school meals for eligible children in Cornwall 24 September 2025
  • A poor show: we need a strategy which put children first, says County Hall’s public health boss 2 September 2025
  • Glittering prizes: the A-level results are in, and everyone’s a winner as long as we don’t look too closely 14 August 2025
  • Coming soon: a 10-year-plan for the Cornish language 14 August 2025
  • If in doubt, paddle out: surf school joins Boardmasters’ boycott in protest at links to genocide in Gaza 8 August 2025
  • Cornish language teachers should be paid properly, says report of how the council spent £500,000 to promote Cornish 7 August 2025
  • A year after the government gave County Hall £500,000 to promote the Cornish language, it is still the case that in an emergency, it pays to speak English 4 August 2025
  • Facelift for Saltash leisure centre 31 July 2025
  • Cornwall’s D-Day defined 29 July 2025
  • Boardmasters: this ain’t rock’n’roll, this is genocide 27 July 2025
  • Hot rocks energy project in North Cornwall threatens site of King Arthur’s last battle 2 July 2025
  • The most dangerous man on the planet is coming to Cornwall 30 June 2025
  • Will Cornwall Council’s new regime now help Penryn see through the purple haze of County Hall secrecy? 26 June 2025
  • County Hall wants to “refresh” its approach to economic development 26 June 2025
  • Why did we do that? County Hall wants a new inquiry into the eviction of military aviation museum from Newquay Airport 24 June 2025
  • MPs will not debate the Cornish language after all, as Private Members’ Bill is withdrawn 20 June 2025
  • And what did you learn at school today? “Dydh da Dolly!” Cornish language will make MPs think on Friday 17 June 2025
  • “Insensitive, but not a crime” – police verdict on Mylor parish councillor could prove tricky for County Hall 12 June 2025
  • Back to basics? Cornwall Council says it has no plans to enter the next “City of Culture” beauty contest 11 June 2025
  • Here we go again: Cormac hired to produce “route assessments” as officials try to cut costs and make children walk to school 29 May 2025
  • Sits Vac: County Hall starts its quest for a £166,000-a-year “Community Wellbeing” boss 23 April 2025
  • The blackboard jungle: what did you do at school today? 22 April 2025
  • Travellers’ vehicles tear up youngsters’ football pitch 21 April 2025
  • That’s the way the money goes: the new Head of Future Air and Space discovers what life at the spaceport is really all about 17 April 2025
  • County Hall U-turn on Pencalenick school, following legal challenge 6 April 2025
  • A Cornish Language Tsar? We were only joking… 27 March 2025
  • Going round in circles? Bodmin Moor’s huge stone labyrinth is open to the public, but work continues 20 March 2025
  • 91% said don’t do it – but council scraps funding for Pencalenick special school residential service anyway 5 March 2025
  • Government announces free breakfast clubs at 15 Cornish primary schools 24 February 2025
  • Do you have what it takes to be a local councillor? What the official recruitment pack doesn’t tell you… 16 February 2025
  • We’ll save household waste tips, say Cornwall’s Lib Dems 16 February 2025
  • Time to stop throwing good money after bad, says MP, as 48% say former pub should be demolished 16 February 2025
  • We don’t need no education, insist Cornwall’s Tories, as adult learning centres close 16 February 2025
  • Who remembers the Sustainable Tourism Inquiry? 16 February 2025
  • On the road again: council leader resumes her tour of Cornwall 16 February 2025
  • Woman falls from Hayle South Quay 16 February 2025
  • Is it “game over” for horizontal-launch spaceflight? Government and councils accept that when it comes to launching rockets, the only way is up 14 February 2025
  • Thumbs down for Hayle solar farm 13 February 2025
  • Toddlers triumph in latest education spending round 13 February 2025
  • Man found dead in County Hall “Bunkabin” 13 February 2025
  • Meanwhile in a galaxy far, far away: “We have five rocket launch companies interested in using Newquay Spaceport,” insists councillor 13 February 2025
  • Tears for fears: but no public challenge from Cornwall Council cabinet to their officials’ £49 million slashing of frontline services 13 February 2025
  • “Vote Conservative, close Newquay Airport” – it’s still for sale, insists council, and we are still talking to only one prospective buyer 12 February 2025
  • Ruth Lewarne, campaigner for social justice, dies aged 69 12 February 2025
  • That’s the way the money goes: council has a budget for a “Head of Future Air and Space” but is cutting child protection 12 February 2025
  • “We need to stop chasing unicorns and get back to basics” – Lib Dems plan to oppose Tory budget cuts 12 February 2025
  • Dumped: Cornwall’s household waste centres to end 7-day opening 12 February 2025
  • YouGov says Conservatives and Labour are struggling in the polls 11 February 2025
  • Girl Power: Cornwall Council “diversity” report reveals fascinating facts of life at County Hall 11 February 2025
  • Is this the end of “Esco” funny-money for the Truro New Town heating plan? 11 February 2025
  • Cornwall’s 2025 budget: you pays your money and you takes your choice 11 February 2025
  • Mid Cornwall Metro means no trains to Newquay next month 11 February 2025
  • That’s the way the money goes: other South West Peninsula councils appear to provide significantly better value than Cornwall 11 February 2025
  • Another perfectly normal day in Newquay 11 February 2025
  • Tax-dodging millionaire landowners have another day out in London 11 February 2025
  • On the road again…motorists warned of works to access huge new Truro housing estate 10 February 2025
  • Lights out: County Hall’s aspiration to make Cornwall a “brilliant” place to grow up is in tatters, as Tory budget priorities leave vulnerable children in the dark 10 February 2025
  • Newquay Airport privatisation: what about the “several other credible bidders?” 10 February 2025
  • Plymouth Argyle 1 : 0 Liverpool 9 February 2025
  • EXCLUSIVE: May Day, May Day – Cornwall’s Tories heading for disaster at council polls 8 February 2025
  • Riding high in the opinion polls, Reform UK is putting the wind up Cornwall’s Tories 7 February 2025
  • Boardmasters’ crush: six months later, the public safety investigation is “still continuing” 7 February 2025
  • EXCLUSIVE: Back to the future? Why Cornwall’s Liberal Democrats have reasons to be cheerful about the 1st May council elections 6 February 2025
  • The party’s over: County Hall has blown £100 million from reserves in only one year and is now £1.4 billion in debt 6 February 2025
  • How the attempted sale of Newquay Airport has smashed the taxpayers’ piggy-bank 6 February 2025
  • Farage coming to Cornwall 6 February 2025
  • Cornwall’s local radio listeners now take Heart 6 February 2025
  • Time to go 5 February 2025
  • There will be no mayoral election in Cornwall next year, as government consigns South West Peninsula to the “slow lane” 5 February 2025
  • Linda Taylor quits 5 February 2025
  • Don’t talk about the “Let’s Talk” response to County Hall’s budget: it’s damning 5 February 2025
  • Didn’t we do well, say Cornwall’s Tories, as they reflect on four years in charge at County Hall 5 February 2025
  • South West Water halts Par desalination project as Marine Management Organisation refuses permission 5 February 2025
  • Shiny happy people: more solar farms on the way? 4 February 2025
  • That “Cornwall-only footprint” is getting smaller, as train firm decides to stop at Plymouth 4 February 2025
  • EXCLUSIVE: National Trust to take over Heartlands 4 February 2025
  • Adult education: County Hall now says its “Cornwall-only footprint” model for devolution means learners should go to Plymouth 3 February 2025
  • Adult Education: Launceston reprieved? 3 February 2025
  • New councillors must complete training in “woke” issues or be in breach of the rules, says County Hall 3 February 2025
  • China clay charity suspends activities due to cash crisis 3 February 2025
  • Butterfly effect: how Trump’s trade wars threaten to keep Truro’s big hole in the ground at Pydar 3 February 2025
  • And they’re off! Candidates canter onto the election track in quest to end County Hall stalemate 3 February 2025
  • Devolution or adult education: Will MPs take their chance to stand up for Cornwall? 31 January 2025
  • Executive decision: the future of Cornwall’s adult education service is now in the hands of County Hall chief, who must decide its fate today 31 January 2025
  • Care home told to make “rapid and widespread improvements” following inspection prompted by woman’s death 31 January 2025
  • That Cornwall-Wales Collaboration Agreement in full: “Dydh da,” said Linda. “Iechyd da,” said Eluned. Er, that’s it… 30 January 2025
  • Cornish Pirates rugby club under new ownership 30 January 2025
  • Newquay Airport privatisation: what about the workers? 30 January 2025
  • Back to the future, part 94: more car parks return to “pay and display” as exit barriers are removed 30 January 2025
  • Council refuses to say how much it plans to spend on Truro’s proposed lifting bridge 29 January 2025
  • We want to build on 26,000 acres but we’re not telling you where, say planners 29 January 2025
  • Newquay Airport taxi contract out to tender 29 January 2025
  • Are friends electric? Truro’s new park-and-ride buses come at a price 29 January 2025
  • Newquay Spaceport: A Gateway to the Stars 28 January 2025
  • Car park privatisation to go ahead, despite councillors’ concerns 28 January 2025
  • Will Cornwall’s council tax “exceptions” policy be a tax-dodger’s charter for second-home owners? 28 January 2025
  • Penzance Pixel opens for business – don’t all rush at once 28 January 2025
  • Soggy Monday, but flood alerts are now in retreat 27 January 2025
  • Under the hammer: you too can own a piece of Dairyland 27 January 2025
  • Could town and parish councils hold the key to the future of Cornwall’s farms? 27 January 2025
  • Cornwall’s firefighters now have access to “gender-appropriate” uniform – at a cost 27 January 2025
  • If you go down to the beach today, be sure to tell your MP what you find 27 January 2025
  • On the road again: “sorry to trouble you, but can I rely on your vote?” 27 January 2025
  • Storm brings power cuts to Cornwall 27 January 2025
  • EXCLUSIVE: Council hopes the Blisland bog will take the brakes off for North Cornwall property developers 26 January 2025
  • “No Devonwall” and no majority ensures Cornwall will get a vote on 1st May 25 January 2025
  • “Tornado” blasts Quintrell Downs causing extensive damage 23 January 2025
  • We’re not sure who is paying Spaceport’s wages, admits council 23 January 2025
  • Waking up from Truro’s Pydar dream: the reality is going to be very different, warns council 23 January 2025
  • Russian spy ship in Cornish waters 22 January 2025
  • Meanwhile somewhere in a galaxy far, far away County Hall is still trying to answer a councillor’s question about launching rockets from Newquay 22 January 2025
  • Cornwall’s vanishing local government 22 January 2025
  • A new battleground? Will Trump’s “war on woke” come to Cornwall, as council updates its diversity strategy 22 January 2025
  • Devolution: “Explore all options” says South East Cornwall MP Anna Gelderd 22 January 2025
  • Cornwall councillor Mike McLening quits Tories and joins Independents 21 January 2025
  • Hands Off Cornwall! Councillors vote overwhelmingly to reject “Devonwall” devolution proposals 21 January 2025
  • Tourist taxes: Dorset discovers that the objectors have friends in high places 20 January 2025
  • Time and tide won’t wait: Bude Climate Partnership and local town council part ways due to “ongoing challenges” 20 January 2025
  • Reform UK planning to field council candidates across Cornwall on 1st May 20 January 2025
  • Both sides now: Labour MPs offer diametrically opposite points of view about devolution 20 January 2025
  • National Trust should make holiday cottages available to locals, urge councillors 20 January 2025
  • Cornwall Council elections: 100 days to go – or are there? 20 January 2025
  • European Union spends £2.5 million to help revive Cornish language 20 January 2025
  • That’s the way the money goes: but no time to ask if Polperro’s restored Prince of Wales pier is good value 19 January 2025
  • Sits Vac: more room at the top at County Hall 19 January 2025
  • Cornwall Council’s 2024 residents’ survey: “trust us, this is the full version, honest” 18 January 2025
  • How to spend £1.9 billion in only 42 minutes 17 January 2025
  • Cornwall’s Tories divided over the future of at-risk adult education centres 17 January 2025
  • The long and winding road: MPs hear of challenges facing transport in Cornwall 17 January 2025
  • Special Educational Needs: “If we can’t navigate the system, what hope has anyone else got?” ask councillors 17 January 2025
  • The curious case of Newquay Airport and the missing £28 million Marriott hotel and conference centre 16 January 2025
  • The £1.9 billion gamble: how Cornwall Council plans to spend five years in the casino 15 January 2025
  • Devolution for Cornwall? Yeah, whatever, says business community 15 January 2025
  • When you hear the word “culture” get ready to run 15 January 2025

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