Last week, activists in Truro joined an international day of action to ‘Say NO to Palantir in our NHS’. Around 10 protesters handed leaflets to passers-by, patients, and staff members outside of Truro...

The company managing the Redmoor mine near Callington has secured $9.25m (£7m) of funding from the US Department of War to accelerate its tungsten-related operations. Cornwall Resources Limited, a sub...

The University of Exeter has formed new partnerships with some of the world's most prominent arms manufacturers, Cobblestone Media can reveal. In a response to a Freedom of Information Request submitt...

On Saturday, protestors marched across the Tamar Bridge to advocate for the abolition of Tamar Crossing tolls. Tamar Toll Action Group (TTAG), activists based in southeast Cornwall, crossed the Bridge...

Following Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election and Keir Starmer’s downtrodden resignation the following week, the Labour Party has opened its doors for Burnham to step in as the nation...

Cobblestone Media tried to question Reform UK Cornwall on plans to ban the Cornish Language - they left us on read.

In an extraordinary all-staff meeting today, a vote of no confidence in the University of Exeter Vice Chancellor was passed following announcements of compulsory redundancies. Staff and students at th...

The chief executive of Pennon Group, a British utility company that owns South West Water, was given a bonus payment of £270,000 despite overseeing a public health emergency that saw parasite-infested...

Cobblestone Media in conversation with Katy Davidson. We'll discuss the Sumud Flotilla, her experiences in Israeli detention, and much more.

During the International Sea Shanty Festival, a dedicated group of campaigners picketed Falmouth's King Charles the Martyr Church, centred on the town's high street. From Friday to Sunday, activists e...

Katy Davidson, 49, a resident of Newquay and oyster expert, joined more than 400 members of the Sumud Flotilla, which set off from Sicily on April 26. The flotilla, which aimed to deliver aid to Pales...

Councillor Dulcie Tudor with Kelly-Jay Keen (2024). Via: X, @DollyVarden68. Dulcie Tudor, Cornwall Councillor for Threemilestone and Chacewater, has been exposed for using a Twitter account under a fa...

Leading up to the election in Porth and Tretherras on the 23rd of April, volunteers from across Cornwall have joined together in support of local Green party candidate Abbey Hubbucks. She contests a p...

This morning, Roger Tarrant, Cornwall councillor for Redruth North, announced his departure from Reform UK and his role as Deputy Leader of the council’s Reform group. In his statement, Tarrant claime...

This week, 4 local and parish councils passed a motion of no-confidence in South West Water (SWW). Local authorities in Helston, Crowan, Penryn, and St Ive and Pensilva passed motions of no-confidence...

Cornwall Council has caused uproar in the last two weeks, after an “ultimatum” was sent to all parish and town councils in Cornwall on the subject of weed treatment and removal. The contents of the em...

On Saturday, Right to Roam Kernow organised a trespass on the Boconnoc Estate, Lostwithiel, with a dozen Cornish residents taking part. The trespass is part of a month-long campaign across the UK, dem...

At 1pm this afternoon, 2 supporters of Defend Our Juries took part in a silent demonstration outside of Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, holding signs reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action". The protest was held in solidarity with hundreds of others in London today, arrested under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act. Despite arrests made…

In March 2026, over 2000 of the UK’s ‘forward-thinkers’ gathered at the Eden Project for the 4th annual Anthropy conference. First running in 2022, the event was founded by John O’Brien, a British Arm...

On Monday night, Falmouth Town Council's Planning Committee, a consultative body on the expansion of the town's docks, discussed the issue in front of a packed audience, after councillors had requeste...

This morning, activists in support of Take Back Power took action in Sainsbury's by redistributing food products in its Truro outlet. Two people arrived at the store on Treyew Road at 9am, collecting ...

This week, a majority of Labour Party MPs voted to pass the government's Courts and Tribunals Bill, the most substantial piece of legislation related to criminal justice in decades. Among the majority...

Mylor Parish councillor Peter Lawrence has been dropped by Cornwall's largest food supplier following a campaign by activists to expose his extreme antisemitic and anti-migrant views. West Country Foo...

Rob Rooney, president of Cornwall Trades Council, has been expelled from Your Party for holding dual membership of both Your Party and the Socialist Party, whilst standing in a leadership committee el...

Today, Kernow Hunt Sabs revealed the hunt group that was issued a Community Protection Warning (CPW) in January 2026. In a response to a Freedom of Information request, Devon and Cornwall Police discl...

At a full meeting this week, Penryn Town Council sought to resolve an arduous dispute over the use of the dangerous herbicide glyphosate. The council, like many across the country, is responsible for ...

Polling for the May 2026 local elections hasn't come as a shock given the poor performance of the Starmer cabinet in their year and a half of government. A whopping thirteen U-turns on issues as funda...

Party's Development Officer discusses MK's legacy and signals changes for its future, including standing for Westminster seats. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Mebyon Kernow, the Party for Cor...

Fallen tree blocking the road in Penryn. Last week brought the latest in a series of extreme weather events to hit Cornwall in recent years. Trees toppling over roads and property, debris dangerously ...

The year has been a remarkable one for the Cornish autonomy movement. Campaigners from all over Cornwall and beyond have shifted the political conversation towards discussions of greater control over ...

At 11am yesterday, Helston's Cury Hunt, comprised of around 20 adults and children on horseback and accompanied by helpers, arrived in the centre of Helston to a crowd of 300 supportive spectators and...

There is a particular kind of English liberal who only seems to remember that Cornwall exists when they want to go on holiday or need someone to blame for Brexit. Scroll any comments section under a C...

Yesterday, voters went to the polls in St Columb Minor and Colan, a council ward in North Cornwall. The winner, Heinz Glanville of Reform UK, is the successor to Christine Parsonage, another Reform co...

An extraordinary meeting took place last week in Redruth, promoted and hosted by infamous letting agency Lang-Llewellyn, with landlords letting in Cornwall. A reporter from Cobblestone Media was prese...

In a statement released to the press this week, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been accused of issuing false assurances to staff and the public about its intentions to close Falmouth Ho...

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This morning, Cornwall Council and private contractors began cutting down the now-famous Trelawney trees in Falmouth. As they have done for just under a year, people from the local area attempted to r...

A number of interesting developments came out of the final Full Council meeting of 2025. One comment that has sparked outrage amongst trans liberation activists came from Cllr Dulcie Tudor, which addr...

Yesterday, an appeal put forward to the Planning Inspectorate by Living Quarter Properties Ltd., a luxury housing development company planning to build homes on a historic Newquay cliff site, was reje...

Teaching staff at Truro and Penwith College are among 32 further education colleges which have voted for strike action as part of a UK-wide UCU ballot.  In a ballot that closed this week, 84% of voter...

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Today, twenty-six people defied the ban on Palestine Action outside of Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, by holding signs that read "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action." This action was part of a ...

Resident doctors will be on strike for the second time this year as part of an ongoing pay and jobs dispute. The British Medical Association has announced that doctors will stage a full walk-out start...

May's Local Election map, with the 28 seats originally held by Reform UK. In October, five Cornwall councillors who previously belonged to Reform UK left the party and formed the Cornish Independent N...

Andrew George MP and other delegates in the West Bank, April 2025. An Early Day Motion was tabled for discussion in the House of Commons late last month on the subject of Palestine action and the misu...

On Saturday, Lys Kernow (New County Hall, Truro) hosted the annual Mebyon Kernow Conference. Led by Party Leader Dick Cole, Deputy Leader Loveday Jenkin, and Party Development Officer Michael Bunney, ...

Jeremy Corbyn will speak in Falmouth this coming weekend as part of a series of Your Party rallies around the UK. The event is being advertised by the Cornish Bank, a local not-for-profit events space...

Kernow Rydh, the youth branch of Mebyon Kernow, travelled to Palma de Mallorca earlier this month to participate in Llavor Internacionalista, an international conference hosted by Jovent Republica (Yo...

The people of Caerphilly made history yesterday. In a by‑election triggered by the death of Labour MS Hefin David in August, voters turned out in unexpectedly high numbers to deliver a decisive victor...

Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cyrmu in the Sennedd. This weekend saw the annual Plaid Cymru conference in Swansea (Abertawe), South Wales, and according to seasoned activists, something was very d...