North Cornwall Labour Party

From Cornwall Reports:  https://cornwallreports.co.uk By Peter Tremayne Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has promised to invest heavily in Cornwall through a new network of devolved banks, with local authorities having a key role in deciding what projects to back. Mr Corbyn’s remarks, at a private meeting of South West Labour Party activists on Saturday night, was warmly received by the dozens of Cornish party members who have travelled to Brighton for their annual conference. Mr Corbyn’s promise is very close…

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Thanks to David Perry for these superb photos of the event:

Posted By Anne North on 31st August 2019 By Anne North More than 300 pro-democracy campaigners have staged a rally and march in Bodmin to protest against the government’s planned shutdown of Parliament. In a demonstration organised by the North Cornwall Labour Party, and supported by Liberal Democrats, Green Party and Mebyon Kernow activists, protestors came from across Cornwall to wave flags, banners and placards. At one point they raised umbrellas to symbolise their solidarity with pro-democracy campaigners around the world,…

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By Peter Tremayne, Cornwall Reports The long-awaited return of overnight emergency NHS treatment in the Bude area is due to happen on Friday, Cornwall Reports understands, after the promised launch of a new Community Treatment Centre at Stratton hospital appeared to have been delayed. Health chiefs told local councillors last month that the new service would start “at the beginning of August” and run, for a trial period, until 31st March 2020.  In recent weeks local campaigners have been asking…

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COULD YOU BE ONE OF OUR CORNWALL COUNCILLORS? RECRUITING IS HAPPENING NOW! The Cornwall Labour Party is recruiting now for candidates to contest the 2021 Cornwall Council elections. Officers from the North Cornwall CLP are visiting members in each of the 14 new council wards in this constituency. They have already been to the new Stratton, Kilkhampton and Morwenstow division, and the new Altarnun and Stoke Climsland division. This “Labour Party road show” aims to visit The Old Wainhouse Inn,…

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EXCLUSIVE: How the roads lobby hijacked air quality and turned it into a by-pass for Camelford From Cornwall Reports  https://cornwallreports.co.uk/ 13th August 2019 By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council’s support for a Camelford by-pass is based on a highly partisan interpretation of local public opinion, according to documents obtained by Cornwall Reports. A Freedom of Information answer has established that a statement reported to councillors, claiming that “88% supported the construction of a by-pass,” was in fact the answer to a…

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15th July 2019 By Anne North A Cornwall councillor who runs an“anti-Semitism” Facebook campaign has described Jewish people who disagree with him as “cranks.” Penzance councillor Tim Dwelly, who resigned from the Labour Party last year after numerous policy disagreements, was appearing on the BBC Politics South West programme yesterday (Sunday.)  He has sent a “dossier” of allegations about anti-Semitism to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The BBC programme also interviewed Labour’s Jennifer Forbes, the party’s candidate for the Truro and…

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from Cornwall Reports 25th June 2019 By Anne North People who need treatment for minor injuries in the Bude area will be asked to take part in an experiment which could see their local hospital re-opened overnight from August. The Minor Injuries Unit at the Bude and Stratton hospital has been offering only a reduced service, closing overnight, since December.  The Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust said this was due to staffing difficulties, and now says it could be at least…

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From Cornwall Reports https://cornwallreports.co.uk/ 31st May 2019 By Graham Smith Health chiefs have started to publish their case for closing some of Cornwall’s community hospitals – including claims that Saltash is much closer to other facilities than is actually the case. One of the slides used to justify the closure of St Barnabas hospital, and its Minor Injury Unit, says that for emergency treatment, the distance to Bodmin is only 12 miles. It is in fact 25 miles. The same…

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22nd May 2019 By Rashleigh MacFarlane, Cornwall Reports The Minor Injury Unit at Bude and Stratton hospital will remain closed overnight until at least July.  Health bosses have admitted that their attempts to recruit nurses are failing. The overnight MIU service closed suddenly on 7thDecember as a “temporary” measure – but there are increasing signs that it may never re-open outside the hours of 8am-10pm. A new report due to come before Cornwall Council’s health scrutiny committee next week (29th May)…

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