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Roundabout plans. Anything to do with huge Bickland Water Road housing plans?

12:56pm Thursday 6th June 2013

So the government has announced that it will spend a large lump of our cash on replacing the mini roundabouts at Union Corner with one big one.

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NHS changes, plus the man in charge of Cornwall Council finances is......?

11:38am Thursday 30th May 2013

Depending on which anonymous ministerial briefing you believe, the National Health Service is either (a) on the point of collapse because of elderly people “bed blocking” in acute hospitals or (b) about to invite private hotel firms to launch a new chain of “hospital hotels” for those who technically are “cured” but who cannot be easily discharged because of a lack of care at home.

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Nature abhors a vacuum

11:06am Thursday 23rd May 2013

They say that nature abhors a vacuum. And when you take the big beasts out of a jungle, one of two things happen: either some new big beasts come along to take their place, or the whole ecology is upset and eventually there's a wholesale extinction.

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Time to change the rules on kicking out councillors?

1:14pm Thursday 16th May 2013

I thought that I would never have to write on this subject again, but the people of Wadebridge decided, in their infinite wisdom, to re-elect Collin Brewer for another term on Cornwall Council.

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‘Politicians are like nappies, they need to be changed often and for the same reason’

2:15pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

So the people have spoken, and the long awaited clear out at County Hall is underway.

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Over to you fair Cornwall - it's time to get out and vote

5:19pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

So we come to it at last. With what seems like decades since we had the ability to give the corridors of power at County Hall a good old-fashioned clear out, the time to put an X on the ballot paper has finally arrived.

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Most weapons per head of population in the UK

4:14pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

Last week’s dramatic events in Boston have had me doodling with the arithmetic.

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£10 million to lay the Iron Lady to rest. Money well spent?

4:17pm Wednesday 17th April 2013

So the great/terrible (delete depending on your partisan view) Iron Lady is laid to rest today.

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