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Friday’s news briefing – the daily digest of Cornwall’s headlines - Cornwall Reports

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Secrets and lies: if voting could change anything they’d make it illegal - Cornwall Reports By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council’s fabulously expensive rescue of Newquay Airport’s route to Gatwick was not discussed in public this week after members of the relevant scrutiny committee voted 8-...

13.11.2025 08:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cornwall keen to join “workers and shirkers” debate - Cornwall Reports By Anne North Cornwall could become one of Britain’s “vanguard” areas for reducing work-days lost due to ill health. Around one in five adults of working age are currently unable to work due to ill he...

13.11.2025 07:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thursday’s news briefing – the daily digest of Cornwall’s headlines - Cornwall Reports

13.11.2025 06:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fire destroys former Falmouth pub - Cornwall Reports By Rashleigh MacFarlane Fire has destroyed a derelict pub in Falmouth. Flames ripped through the Boslowick Inn last night (Tuesday.) Several fire crews were called to contain the blaze. The pub close...

12.11.2025 12:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eight days to decide if you want to enter the St Columb Minor and Colan by-election - Cornwall Reports By Julia Penhaligon At least two former Cornwall councillors are hoping to return to County Hall as a result of the St Columb Minor and Colan by-election, where formal notice of poll is due to be publ...

12.11.2025 12:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wednesday’s news briefing – the daily digest of Cornwall’s headlines - Cornwall Reports

12.11.2025 06:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Visit Cornwall 2: is the council about to throw good money after bad? - Cornwall Reports By Rashleigh MacFarlane County Hall officials are continuing to wonder what will become of the Visit Cornwall website, as they ponder suggestions that a “Phoenix”-like tourism organisation might rise ...

11.11.2025 12:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Political parties racing against time to find candidates for St Columb & Colan by-election - Cornwall Reports By Julia Penhaligon It looks as if the timetable for nominations for the looming St Columb Minor and Colan Cornwall Council by-election is going to be very tight, with political parties offered only a...

11.11.2025 12:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty flamingo: they seek her here, they seek her there – Frankie’s flight from Cornwall has the world twitching - Cornwall Reports By Graham Smith, Carthage, Tunisia When Frankie the flamingo hatched on 1st July few could have foreseen the flap she would cause. She was the first flamingo to be reared in captivity at the Paradise...

11.11.2025 07:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tuesday’s news briefing – the daily digest of Cornwall’s headlines - Cornwall Reports

11.11.2025 06:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Will there be unicorns? Planners to consider request for North Cornwall wildlife park - Cornwall Reports By Lee Trewhela Cornwall Council has received an application to turn an equestrian centre into a new wildlife park which would be home to rhinos as well as other “non-domesticated herbivores”. The app...

10.11.2025 09:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lib Dems win Penzance by-election - Cornwall Reports By Julia Penhaligon Liberal Democrat Duncan Paul won a Penzance Town Council by-election on Thursday, defeating Reform-backed Rob Trewhela and Independent Mayar Akash. Mr Paul got 491 votes, Mr Trewhe...

10.11.2025 07:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

EXCLUSIVE: Cornwall Council’s plan to invest £15 million in the spaceport and create 3,000 jobs within five years (continued page 94…) - Cornwall Reports By Peter Tremayne Cornwall’s economic aspirations are soon about to tilt dramatically towards defence interests, with the astonishing claim that Newquay spaceport will become the focus for 3,000 jobs ...

10.11.2025 06:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Monday’s news briefing – the daily digest of Cornwall’s headlines - Cornwall Reports

10.11.2025 05:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nearly half way through the season: Cornwall’s first contact with national league football looks as if it will be all too brief - Cornwall Reports By Peter Tremayne A total of 3,184 people watched Truro City’s 0-1 home defeat against Altrincham on Saturday. The result leaves Truro firmly bottom of the National League and favourites for immediate...

09.11.2025 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Truro New Town’s shrinking list of “deliverables” - Cornwall Reports By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council appears to have finally abandoned any hope that anyone might be able to live on its 3,800-home Langarth housing estate by next year. It now looks increasingly lik...

09.11.2025 13:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gardner-gate and other airport scandals: who remembers when we were promised a “robust action plan” which would be in place by November? - Cornwall Reports By Peter Tremayne As Cornwall Council’s Liberal Democrat-Independent administration congratulates itself on restoring a form of Newquay-Gatwick air link, it is worth a few minutes to reconsider the re...

09.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Under starter’s orders: St Columb and Colan voters set to deliver a fascinating verdict - Cornwall Reports By Julia Penhaligon The Cornwall Council by-election for the St Columb Minor and Colan division will be on Thursday 18th December. The council website has not yet been updated to include the formal n...

09.11.2025 07:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Skybus gets the contract for Newquay-Gatwick flights - Cornwall Reports By Peter Tremayne Cornwall Council has awarded Skybus a £2.3 million subsidy to fly from Newquay to Gatwick for the next seven months. Skybus was the only company which submitted a tender. Nearly £1 ...

07.11.2025 10:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cornwall councillor quits Tories after calling for “mass deportation of illegals” and claiming “young black males are flooding into the UK” - Cornwall Reports By Julia Penhaligon St Blazey councillor Pauline Giles has apologised and resigned from the Conservative party after making a racist remark on social media. Councillor Giles, a former chair of Cornwal...

07.11.2025 07:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Friday’s news briefing – the daily digest of Cornwall’s headlines - Cornwall Reports

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Tintagel parish council in crisis, part 94 of a continuing series - Cornwall Reports By Lee Trewhela There appears to be another crisis at one of Cornwall’s most visited tourism towns. Residents of Tintagel are demanding the resignation of their parish council amid “serious questions”...

06.11.2025 14:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

EXCLUSIVE: Chocks away! Newquay-London flights to resume within days – but at a huge cost to local taxpayers - Cornwall Reports By Peter Tremayne Cornwall’s council taxpayers are being forced to spend nearly £1 million to resume flights between Newquay Airport and London. The main beneficiaries will be holidaymakers and second...

06.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Early Christmas present for St Columb voters? - Cornwall Reports By Julia Penhaligon There is a chance that voters in St Columb Minor and Colan might get the chance to elect a new Cornwall councillor sooner than expected, if County Hall officials move fast enough. ...

06.11.2025 06:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Council and NHS chiefs quizzed over Cornwall health cuts - Cornwall Reports By Lee Trewhela Members of the public concerned by NHS cuts and the possibility of huge jobs losses at Cornwall’s hospitals have raised questions at a Cornwall Council health scrutiny committee. One C...

06.11.2025 06:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thursday’s news briefing – the daily digest of Cornwall’s headlines - Cornwall Reports

06.11.2025 05:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The tide is high but I’m holding on - Cornwall Reports By Rashleigh MacFarlane Flood warnings are in place for some coastal areas due to high tides this afternoon and tomorrow morning (Thursday.) Fowey, Lostwithiel, Polperro and Looe are among those affec...

05.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who remembers when Loganair told Cornwall Council: “awa an bile yer heid!?” - Cornwall Reports By Peter Tremayne Cornwall Council bosses are hoping to make an announcement within the next few days about which airline they have persuaded to resume flights between Newquay and London, following th...

05.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The borrowers: why Cornwall Council is such good news for money-lenders - Cornwall Reports By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council’s Liberal Democrat-Independent administration increased total debt by £47 million in its first five months, according to official County Hall data released today (...

05.11.2025 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Professor of Evidence Synthesis. Interconnections between the environment and health. European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter,

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