Children's Safeguarding
Cornwall Council's Cabinet consideration of the recent Ofsted report and the resulting action plan is on their 16th March agenda;...
View ArticleGood news for Cornwall?
Within all the effort to move Cornwall Council, which after all solely exists to deliver public services, forward it is occasionally good to reflect on how far it has come since its creation two years...
View ArticlePerranarworthal School: Speeding Traffic
According to the Police the average vehicle passes the school at 26mph; in a 20mph speed limit. This means that some vehicles go past much faster and threaten the safety of pupils.I have decided to...
View ArticleBudget: Lib Dems influence (limited?)
I've been trying to establish which parts of the budget were influenced by the Lib Dems and have identified three major items: (1) the £2bn oil industry levy which appears to be sounding the death...
View ArticleProposed Housing Development: Rame and Longdowns
This evening's meeting at Wendron Cricket Club was pure farce. The numbers of residents who turned up simply overwhelmed the meeting room meaning that dozens were left outside and could not hear what...
View ArticleNot a lot of People know this
Four of us were standing in the entrance hall of Perranarworthal Village Memorial Hall (excellent location with good facilities and low hire costs: http://pvmh.org.uk/ ) earlier this evening debating...
View ArticleFair Share for Cornwall
Back in July 2010 Cornwall Council passed a motion regarding seeking an end to the end of underfunding for Cornwall. The issue was taken up with the Coalition Government and the six Cornish MPs; we...
View ArticleHealthy NHS
I am pleased that the Government has today taken the opportunity to "pause" the transformation of health services to allow additional time for further consultation. The Health and Social Care Bill,...
View ArticlePerranwell Station: Stopping Trains
Given the articles in this month's Perran News, I felt the debate would be assisted by the following comments which were included in my report to the March meeting of Perranarworthal Parish...
View ArticleTruro Shops
Sue reports that today's trip to Truro was noticeable for the fact that shop assistants were speaking to customers. A sure sign that the retail trade is suffering and that the 'make sales or else'...
View ArticlePriorities
So we are at war, in effect, with the Libyan government and have thousands of troops on the ground in Afghanistan. The economic position is dire (thanks to the last Labour Government) and we are all...
View ArticlePublic Sector Non-Jobs
Reading Graham Smith's blog on the BBC web site is an increasingly sad affair with every indication that he has lost the ability to research news and is reduced to relaying the tittle tattle emanating...
View ArticleAgeism
Patronising beyond belief: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13247915Surely the purpose should be to encourage everyone, irrespective of age, to access the woods. Rather than treat the over-50s, or...
View ArticleFunding for Cornish Schools
Interesting that the BBC has only just caught up with this issue on 4 May: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-13277196It has already been addressed by Cornwall Council under the subject of...
View ArticleElection Results
A mixed bag of results.By far the most profound is the SNP success and, when all other results are forgotten in a few years as political fortunes change (as they will), I wonder if we will look back on...
View ArticleCornwall's Rail Services
Whilst we will need to influence the next rail franchise for future rail services, following First Great Western's decision to exercise a contractual option to terminate early the existing franchise,...
View ArticleThe Strange Case of the Missing Opposition
For some time I've puzzled as to why the Lib Dems in Cornwall Council are not providing strong opposition. They are clearly an intelligent group of people who, like councillors of all political...
View ArticlePerranwell Station and the Financial Times
The story so far; copies of the FT were noticeable by their absence in the Perranwell Stores last weekend so a request to the FT for explanation has produced this response:Thanks for letting us know:...
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Port of Falmouth and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Whilst the publicity surrounding the Chancellor's visit to Cornwall focused on the economic and job prospects arising from the successful bid for an Enterprise Zone at Newquay airport, he also gave...
View ArticleLiberal Democrats: Friends of Cornwall?
I confess I'd put aside the awful state of affairs that the Cornwall Council Conservative/Independent Administration inherited from the Liberal Democrats following the electorate's very sensible...
View ArticleLib Dems: Still keen on spending Taxpayers' Money
I understand from a journalist that Cornwall's Lib Dems have issued a press release attacking the decision to put out for review future options for Cornwall Newquay Airport. They are quoted to me as...
View ArticleOlympic Torch Relay
Strange that at a time when there are so many important issues to be addressed that the next meeting of Cornwall Council has to deal with a motion on the status of the Chairman. As the motion merely...
View ArticleNumber of MPs
There has been some commentary in recent days about the possibility that Westminster may retain 650 MPs due to a potential decision by Lib Dem MPs to withdraw their previous commitment to reducing the...
View ArticleCornwall Council Tax: the case for no increase
Cornwall Council has published proposals for a 1.97% increase in Council tax for 2013/14. This percentage is conveniently below the 2% level which would trigger a referendum.Council tax is set by a...
View ArticleMabe: Housing numbers and Rural Parishes
The draft Cornwall Local Plan envisages that 500 dwellings will be added over a 20 year period to the existing housing stock in the rural Parishes of Perranarworthal, Mylor, St Gluvias, Mabe, Budock,...
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