Nightmare for Cornwall

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Ellianne - Presumably Exeter St. David’s rather than Exeter Central. Were there many people on the station watching?

25Avalon

Ellianne - Presumably Exeter St. David’s rather than Exeter Central. Were there many people on the station watching?

Yes, St. David's. It stopped at 22.15 on its way back to London. The station looks deserted. I hope the Queen got a good night's sleep on board.

She was bright and chirper for the mini parade in Windsor this morning. Looked like a very comfy bed on the train.

Just read the Queen was given a new corgi puppy on Thursday (D of E’s birthday. Maybe that helped put the smile on her face.

25Avalon

She was bright and chirper for the mini parade in Windsor this morning. Looked like a very comfy bed on the train.

And entering the Bidens tomorrow.

How does she do it? I feel exhausted at the thought.

The Red Arrows were busy today too doing the fly past in Windsor for the Trooping of the Colour, then putting on an aerobatic display over St. Ives this evening.
Pretty impressive.

How lovely to read so many positive comments from folk on here.
I had wondered if possibly the Queen had travelled to Cornwall on the royal train.

Her energy at 95 years old is incredible isn’t it?

Lots of people thirty years younger would struggle with her workload.

I live close to one of the most deprived areas of Cornwall. Clay Pits Area .Whilst I was pleased to hear that some towns were to get a total of £89 million, I'm angered that the poorest ones are not included in this package.

Only three towns are receiving it: Camborne, Penzance and St Ives and Truro (city). Camborne is the most highly deprived area, closely followed by St Austell, Bodmin, Redruth and Newquay. What money are they getting? None!

Whilst trying to understand why these other towns are not getting a penny, I discover that in 2019 Robert Jenrick (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) launched the Towns Deals scheme to improve community assets and encourage economic regeneration. Truro, Camborne, St Ives & Penzance were chosen to work up a bid for funding worth up to £25 million per town, as part of the Government’s £3.6 billion UK wide fund.

I'd like to know what criteria was used to choose these towns. Truro is not classed as a socially deprived area and apart from one estate in Penzance, that isn't either.

He states that: “The towns fund will help level up the country, creating jobs and building stronger and more resilient local economies.”

I hope the town fund will create jobs and affordable housing but looking at some of the projects, I doubt this will happen.

Sorry Boris, it is not a G7 present. The government invited Camborne to bid for the Town Funding in November 2019. The plan to hold G7 in Cornwall in 2021 was a long way off.

JaneJudge.....your comment about hoping that they do not abuse their power....ahahahahaha!

The G7 leaders will be enjoying the massively EU funded Eden Project and flying off from the massively EU funded Newquay airport. Before anyone comes into saying the UK will now fund all these things I would say - don’t hold your breath ( unless a Tory donor is involved).

I'd like to know what criteria was used to choose these towns

Wasn't it that the area had to have a tory MP?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/03/sunaks-1bn-of-town-deals-will-nearly-all-go-to-tory-constituencies

Remember the local elections this year where voters in some places were explicitly told that their council would only get extra funding if it was tory? There's nothing secret about tory tactics...

But Maizie Cornwall is a completely blue area, so all those towns would naturally have a Tory MP. Unless you want to bypass the area altogether.

Ellianne. I'm sorry I got Wilfred's age wrong. I sometimes have difficulty remembering the ages of my own children and grandchildren!
My comment about the queen was intended to praise her devotion to carrying out her royal duties even the boring ones. I doubt if many of us would be so conscientious.

No worries GG, I'm the opposite - I know everyone's birthdays, telephone numbers etc!
The Queen is amazing, but I bet she will want to get rid of the Bidens quickly today so she can have some time playing with her new puppy.

makes you wonder why they couldnt hold the summit meeting at his family home . iunstead of making a circus out of cornwall. i hope they not hoping to view the lovely scenery whilst not addressing the problems at hand ......already causing enviromental issues with all that petrol/fumes/ and more plastic in the waters .

Saw the owner of the Porthminster cafe on the news last night. He said 3 cafes closed? Think he owns the one on Porthmeor and the one on Porthgwidden as well? How on earth as a country are we going to open up and get back to normal if every time we hear 'covid' we are going o shut up shop?

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Saw the owner of the Porthminster cafe on the news last night. He said 3 cafes closed? Think he owns the one on Porthmeor and the one on Porthgwidden as well? How on earth as a country are we going to open up and get back to normal if every time we hear 'covid' we are going o shut up shop?

Why would it be covid restrictions closing his cafes? They're all open up here, with people inside them and outside them, and have been since May.

I don't know Maizie. That is what is puzzling. He said 'we have to keep people safe?'.

He stated some staff had tested positive for covid.

The cafes were closed because some of their staff are having to self isolate and he couldn't replace them at short notice.

It's not unusual to have daytime café staff who also work in different settings in the evening. If one of them has picked up an infection it can go round various establishments so it could be from anywhere. No choice but to close and reopen next week.

Apologies for reviving an old thread, but I was jumped on from a great height by some people for suggesting the G7 was something of a poisoned chalice for the inhabitants of Cornwall.
Now I read this from a poster living in the SW

Cornwall is reporting a 2,000% increase in Covid cases in the G7 areas (St. Ives, Carbis Bay, etc) and this particular variant is a super spreader. Some businesses have been forced to close down as a result. A very worrying situation.

MawBe

Apologies for reviving an old thread, but I was jumped on from a great height by some people for suggesting the G7 was something of a poisoned chalice for the inhabitants of Cornwall.
Now I read this from a poster living in the SW

^Cornwall is reporting a 2,000% increase in Covid cases in the G7 areas (St. Ives, Carbis Bay, etc) and this particular variant is a super spreader. Some businesses have been forced to close down as a result. A very worrying situation.^

It was obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense, that was going to happen ?

Yes, it is alarming MawBe and the G7 should never have happened.
But the potster's comment you quote does not explain the whole picture. Cases in the entire south west have risen dramatically, especially in Exeter and surrounding areas which is a long distance from St. Ives. Even our safe corner has more than doubled, it is all over the region. These results come on the back of the half term break when the area was flooded with (unvaccinated) tourists who would have come anyway. Workers in bars and restaurants have had to be imported from up country. The spread was sadly inevitable and will continue.