Gardner-gate: while one part of Cornwall Council was making a formal complaint to the police, another part of the empire was negotiating a secret payoff to the councillor whose failure to declare an interest was followed by a £70,000 a year job at the spaceport

Posted By theboss on 23 July 2026

By Lee Trewhela Last year’s Newquay spaceport scandal, which caused so much embarrassment for Cornwall Council, has blasted into orbit again with the confirmation that the former councillor at the…