New hospital extension in Cornwall bid for West Cornwall Hospital falmouthpacket.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from falmouthpacket.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
If we’re not careful, Cornwall will lose the thing that people come down here to experience
Simon Parker is cycling 3,000 miles around Britain, and in Cornwall finds a county bracing itself for a tourism tsunami There is definitely a correlation between tourism and plastic pollution.
Above the wave-splashed tarmac of the Penzance Promenade, seagulls the size of albatrosses banked and tumbled in the 60mph wind. Wheelie bins had been tossed around the streets like flimsy Tupperware boxes, and in every third parking space a campervan wobbled around on its axes.
Like the rest of the country, Cornwall is now welcoming back tourists, but good luck finding a room. A quick search on Booking.com or Airbnb will reveal a scant selection of mostly overpriced rooms.
Plans for flagpoles at centre of racist abuse in Penzance, Cornwall falmouthpacket.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from falmouthpacket.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
RACIST abuse and deeply personal comments have been made against the Mayor of Penzance following the removal of a number of unauthorised Union Jack flags which were hoisted on Penzance Prom without permission. Mayor Nicole Broadhurst said the flags, which were raised on the flagpoles usually reserved for the Golowan Festival celebrations, would have to be removed as they did not have permission from Cornwall. They were put up following the UK’s signing of a trade deal with the EU on December 30 last year. Following her statement on Twitter and Facebook the mayor, who is black, was met with a torrent of abuse, some of it racially motivated. Things got so bad with people turning up at her house that the police have installed a panic alarm.