Gunwalloe - Church Cove
View across Church Cove in Gunwalloe at the base of the Lizard Peninsula.
The church is St Winwalloe with it's distinctively seperate bell tower and surrounding Tamarisk hedge....
newlyn house
Wonderfully painted frontage....
rogers tower
A folly built 18th C, for Mr Rogers, a local landowner....
Toytown Unitary Authority Dictatorial Imposition Local Government Dismantling Schedule
Bullsmit Updates at the Two Cornwalls 'OneCornwall' Naff 'Branding' Web Site:
Of course the whole exercise, just like the externally imposed, invalid and belated LondonFantasy 1889 incorporation of Cornwall within the 'English Counties', discussed HERE, via the instrument of the Local Government Act of 1888 may, in fact, be ultra vires.
Recently Westminster restored the rights of the Chagos Islanders.
The return of Cornwall to the Cornish is also long overdue.
This:
is a LibDemLite centrist genuflecting beating about the bush waste of time and resources tangential to Cornwall's needs and destiny.
This:
is more like the necessary and inevitable real thing.
You mean it's going to made from breeze blocks and have an old window from an Austin 1100 and a flat roof that will need replacing after 5 years because of dodgy felt?
The proposed 'community networks' for the One Cornwall council will be made up of unelected 'community representatives.'
Giving power to a bunch of busy bodies who don't need popular support will be an obstacle for the elected parish /town councils and possibly the new one cornwall council.
Also, they want to build a completely new building for the new council, while David Whalley wants to see less councillors - so more money will go on salaried officers, less democracy, more developments pushed through by officers and QUANGOs.
Elections in 2009 need as many as possible to kick out the lib dems and get some order in place for Cornwall.
Accused teacher's apology letter
A letter of apology to sex abuse victims was not an admission of guilt a former outdoor instructor says.
Fewer Cornish homes repossessed
Fewer homes have been repossessed in Cornwall in the past year, bucking the national trend.
Man in court over shooting death
A man appears in court charged with murdering the father of his former girlfriend in Cornwall.
Robbery gang sentenced for raids
Five members of an armed gang who committed offences in Devon and Cornwall are sentenced.
Sailor in Spain saved by 999 call
Falmouth Coastguard coordinates the rescue of a missing sailor off Spain after his wife dials 999 in England.
Review urged over toll rise plans
Councillors in Cornwall want plans for a 50% increase in toll charges to cross the River Tamar to be reviewed.
Safety DVD helps migrant workers
A safety DVD aimed at helping migrant workers in Cornwall settle into life in the county is released.
MK CALL ON SW RDA TO SUPPORT SOUTH CROFTY PLAN
Members of the Camborne and Redruth constituency party of Mebyon Kernow have called on both the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) and the Urban Regeneration Company (URC) for the area to drop any opposition to the current re-opening of South Crofty Mine. The MK members want statements issued in support of the mine.