South West Water hit with £7.8m fine for ‘horrendous’ pollution offences Water The Environment Agency has fined South West Water £7.8m over a string of pollution-related offences across Devon and Cornwall. The water company pleaded guilty to 24 environmental charges after the Environment Agency investigated incidents that took place between January 2015 and July 2021 in Bodmin, Harlyn, Polperro, Plymouth, and Playing Place. Of the charges, 17 [...]
Burnham won’t be bold enough to make devolution shift the dial on growth Economics Within a year of Cornwall abolishing the 45p additional rate of income tax and reducing corporation tax to 15 per cent, hundreds of entrepreneurs and businesses, including dozens of major financial and professional services firms, had relocated to the county. The influx of private sector dynamism delivered an astonishing economic boost to a region that [...]
How Cornwall’s industrial heartlands can help power modern Britain Opinion Global supply chains are fracturing and great powers are locked in a race for critical minerals – Britain must now make the most of its own natural wealth, writes Nicola Lloyd When South Crofty tin mine fell silent in March 1998 and the last of its working miners trudged back to their homes in the surrounding [...]
Skybus steps in to save Cornwall-London route after Eastern Airways collapse November 7, 2025 Cornwall Council has struck an interim deal with airline Skybus to restore a flight route between Cornwall and London, after previous provider Eastern Airways went into administration. The new service is expected to start from late November, with 70-seat planes running daily and ultimately ramping up to twice-daily on week days by February of next [...]
Eden Project: Losses more than double amid job cuts September 25, 2025 Losses at the Eden Project in Cornwall more than doubled as a “major restructuring” led to a large number of jobs being cut. New accounts filed with Companies House show that its pre-tax loss went from £1.5m to £3.5m. The latest figure comes after the Eden Project also posted a pre-tax loss of £868,000 in [...]
Rick Stein’s restaurant group serves up losses as jobs cut September 24, 2025 Rick Stein’s restaurant group served up higher losses in 2024 amid falling sales and job cuts, it has been revealed. Spread across three companies, each entity recorded a lower turnover and widening pre-tax losses for 2024 compared to 2023. The Stein Group includes twelve restaurants, a cookery school in Padstow and a meal kits business. [...]
Driving a Ferrari Purosangue through sleepy St Mawes, Cornwall June 27, 2025 Ah, Cornwall, the second home capital of England. Of course, the locals loathe the incoming hoards from West London and the home counties, breezing in for a few sunny weeks of the year with their 4x4s, yoga mats and Big Green Egg barbecues. Following the G7 summit held in Carbis Bay in 2021, an especially [...]
Cornwall hopes for tin mining revival as metals firm lands £56m injection January 29, 2025 After the belts whirred to a halt and workers left Cornwall’s last operating tin mine for a final time in March 1998, a question was painted on its outer wall: “Cornish lads are fishermen and Cornish lads are miners too. But when the fish and tin are gone, what are the Cornish boys to do?” [...]