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£140,000 to stabilise Loggans Mill
By Rashleigh MacFarlane Work is about to start to make safe the historic Loggans Mill building in Hayle, which caused alarm to Cornwall Council bosses in June when it...
- Rashleigh MacFarlane
- 8th August 2022
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EXCLUSIVE: Cornwall’s surf tax is now deep blue, but still costs more to administer than it raises
By Peter Tremayne Eight years after it was introduced, Cornwall’s controversial “surf tax” almost certainly costs more to administrate than it raises, according to a Freedom of Information answer...
- Peter Tremayne
- 23rd July 2022
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“Penny for PM,” says St Ives MP Derek Thomas, while Camborne & Redruth MP George Eustice backs Grant Shapps
By Julia Penhaligon St Ives MP Derek Thomas has declared that he is supporting trade minister Penny Mordaunt to become the next leader of the Conservative Party – and...
- Julia Penhaligon
- 10th July 2022
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Government offers top-price for Cornwall’s offshore wind energy – but the profits will go to Sweden
By Peter Tremayne The government has confirmed that it is to pay a highly lucrative price for wind energy generated off the Cornwall coast. The money will go to...
- Peter Tremayne
- 7th July 2022
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Boris Johnson used government jet “as personal taxi” to fly family from Cornwall to London
By Julia Penhaligon Boris Johnson has been accused of using a government jet as a “personal taxi” to fly him from Cornwall to London last month. The Sunday Mirror...
- Julia Penhaligon
- 3rd July 2022
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The curious case of the five-year delay between closing three of Cornwall’s hospitals and then doing anything useful
By Anne North Health chiefs have still made no decision about the futures of community hospitals at Saltash and Fowey, which have both been closed for more than five...
- Anne North
- 1st July 2022
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Boris Johnson must go, says St Ives MP Derek Thomas, so that we can have a “real Conservative” as Prime Minister
By Julia Penhaligon St Ives Conservative MP Derek Thomas has further distanced himself from Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a blistering attack during a television interview. Mr Thomas told...
- Julia Penhaligon
- 29th June 2022
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What future for Hayle’s Loggans Mill? Council declares exclusion zone around unsafe building
By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council has sealed off an historic mill and bakery in Hayle amid concerns that the building might collapse. But local people are already protesting that...
- Rashleigh MacFarlane
- 3rd June 2022
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