By Harold Callahan One of the details possibly overlooked by the triumphant “Memorandum of Understanding” recently celebrated by Cornwall Council leader Leigh Frost and the Vice-President of Brittany,...

By Graham Smith Six Cornwall Council cabinet members are due to meet next week to decide how to spend the government’s £30 million Kernow Industrial Growth Fund.  The fund is known as the KIG. A Count...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall councillors are being denied sight of a “hit list” of under-threat school transport routes while at the same time being told to cut school transport spending by £3.6 m...

By Julia Penhaligon The pace of technological progress means that Cornwall’s political activists now have a growing and powerful arsenal of tools to calculate how small changes in initial conditions m...

By Julia Penhaligon Less than one week after a Parliamentary petition calling for a “Cornish tick box” on the 2031 census failed to get even 1% of voters’ support, another Parliamentary petition has b...

By Julia Penhaligon Any attempt at electoral reform, likely to be presented in Labour’s manifesto at the next general election, would have particularly profound implications in Cornwall. Andy Burnham ...

By Julia Penhaligon Any attempt at electoral reform, likely to be presented in Labour’s manifesto at the next general election, would have particularly profound implications in Cornwall. Andy Burnham ...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane South West Water has been fined £7,867,733 after admitting a series of pollution offences involving untreated sewage at sites across Devon and Cornwall. The company was sentenc...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The Homes Cornwall project, which aims to take around 8% of Cornwall’s publicly-owned farms and turn them into housing estates, appears to be running into serious trouble. The ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council cabinet member Tim Dwelly’s continuing absence from County Hall spared him having to deal with several hostile questions at today’s (Tuesday’s) economy scrutiny co...

By Peter Tremayne Pressure is growing on Cornwall Council to re-establish a properly-constituted committee to supervise Newquay Airport, as scrutiny councillors this morning (Tuesday) vented their fru...

By Julia Penhaligon It is only a week since Cornwall Council’s interim deputy chief executive (can’t we just call him the chief executive? – Ed) Andy Keeling told staff he was setting up “immediate sp...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall’s Reform UK activists are agitating about the cost of hiring an “interim deputy chief executive” while the processing of Kate Kennally’s “extended leave of absence” contin...

By Harold Callahan Ten people have been arrested after a powerboat carrying Albanian nationals arrived at Mylor Harbour, the Home Office has confirmed.  The landing happened in the early hours of yest...

By Peter Tremayne Scrutiny councillors meet tomorrow (Tuesday) for what is theoretically a routine run through of a couple of issues which County Hall officials think are safe enough to be seen in day...

By Peter Tremayne The government is putting nearly £10 million into what will be Cornwall’s first lithium mine. Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) aims to produce an initial 1,500 tonnes of technical gr...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The government is giving councils the power to seize homes which have been left empty for more than six months. The move turns the clock back more than 20 years to when local a...

By Peter Tremayne Seven days ago Cornwall Council’s so-far-unblemished interim deputy chief executive Andy Keeling issued a stern memo to more than 5,500 staff. We need to save money, he warned, annou...

By Julia Penhaligon All eyes will be on the Labour Party conference in Liverpool tomorrow (Monday) when chancellor John Healey makes his major set-piece speech – in which he is expected to outline the...

By Julia Penhaligon Andy Burnham might have ruled out a general election until 2029, but Conservative and Reform are continuing to prepare for a snap poll – particularly if Labour’s opinion poll lead ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall looks set to remain very much in the slow-lane of devolution, with government plans to transfer power out of Whitehall to anywhere west of the River Tamar taking up to 10 ...

By Graham Smith “At the moment,” said one veteran councillor, “this is being driven by HR and legal.  There’s a process and I think we all get that.  But quite soon, they are going to have to share so...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Truro's bonfire night and fireworks’ display will not go ahead this November, Truro City Council has confirmed, marking the second consecutive year the event has been cancelled...

By Graham Smith The Cornwall Live local news website is to relaunch its “premium” subscription service in a bid to maintain some revenue. Published by Reach PLC, Cornwall Live first announced it would...

By Peter Tremayne Navy explosives experts have given more details of the bomb which they removed from close to Falmouth docks yesterday (Wednesday.) It was a 113 Kg AN M-57 airdrop bomb of the type co...

By Graham Smith The residents of Cornwall are not the first to wake up one morning to discover that the highly-paid chief executive of their local council has suddenly disappeared. Kate Kennally left ...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council’s interim deputy chief executive Andy Keeling attended his first cabinet meeting this morning (Wednesday) – having first had to walk past a large TV screen remindi...

By Harold Callahan For a town already locked in a bitter fight over what lies beneath its harbour, Monday’s discovery of an unexploded Second World War bomb feels less like an isolated scare and more ...

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council was unable to give a straight answer this morning (Wednesday) to a public question about Newquay Airport and its audited annual accounts. The question from Cornwall Re...

By Graham Smith Questions are often much more fun than the answers.  One question, heard with increasing frequency around County Hall, and often accompanied by a mischievous wink and a smile, is “wher...

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council leader Leigh Frost might have to prepare to get “bloody livid.”  He has previously warned that his patience is running thin as he watches nothing happen at the...

By Harold Callahan Thousands of people in Falmouth are likely to be evacuated from their homes this morning (Wednesday) as Royal Navy explosive experts deal with a huge American bomb left over from th...

By Harold Callahan Thousands of people in Falmouth are likely to be evacuated from their homes tomorrow morning (Wednesday) as Royal Navy explosive experts deal with a huge American bomb left over fro...

By Lee Trewhela The new interim boss at Cornwall Council has urged staff to avoid speculating about the absence of chief executive Kate Kennally. Andy Keeling has also told council employees they need...

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall’s Liberal Democrats are divided over their party’s conference vote last night (Monday) to campaign in favour of allowing trans-women access to women-only spaces, such a to...

A 300-metre cordon remains in place around the WW2 unexploded American bomb found close to Falmouth Docks.  Disposal experts say they have decided to move the ordnance before attempting to make it saf...

By Harold Callahan The huge unexploded bomb found near Falmouth docks could take a while to deal with.  Some homes have been evacuated and roads closed while Royal Navy divers and Explosive Ordnance D...

By Harold Callahan Emergency services are pondering how to deal with a suspected unexploded ordnance device discovered in the water near Falmouth Docks on Monday morning. The response so far has close...

By Julia Penhaligon Prior to the sudden, unexplained departure of Cornwall Council chief executive Kate Kennally in late August, there had been three crucial meetings of County Hall’s Chief Officers’ ...

 Recorded at 11.27pm on Thursday night, the CCTV captures a car being repeatedly reversed into the gates at the Islamic Community Centre, Carnon Downs, near Truro

By Harold Callahan A fundraising appeal to help repair racially-aggravated criminal damage to Cornwall’s only mosque has already raised nearly £1,500. The cash is to repair gates at Cornwall’s Islamic...

Recognised officially by the Guiness Book of Records as the largest-ever gathering of people to eat a Cornish cream tea, a total of 2,483 came together at the Royal Cornwall Showground yesterday (Sund...