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Cornwall Council tightens up second home electoral registration

Cornwall Council members such as Alex Folkes have been pushing for some time for the council to tighten up its implementation of electoral registration rules in the face of the county's large number of second homes.

“Press conferences are private meetings”

Cornish Conservatives clearly do things differently as Lib Dem Cllr Alex Folkes has reported: [Council leader] Cllr Robertson and Council Chief Executive Kevin Lavery held a press conference to announce the proposed budget. Lib Dem Group Leader Doris Ansari went along to hear what they had to say, only to be thrown out of the [...]

Is one of these more dangerous than the other?

14 June 2010 , ,
To the untrained eye, it may appear that one of these creatures is rather more dangerous than the other and therefore that it may make sense to have rules about keeping one of them which shouldn’t apply to the other: However, to the keenly trained eye of a Cornwall County Council officer, it’s a different [...]

Cornwall Council takes a wise approach to social media

15 January 2010 , ,
Newly created last year, unitary Cornwall Council is taking its first steps in drawing up a social media policy as part of a wider communications review. Although the initial paper is rather timid in its conclusions (‘here are some ideas we must think about’) this point struck me as particularly well made: In considering how [...]

Postal vote printers mess up in Cornwall

29 May 2009 , ,
Perhaps the most basic requirement for a local election ballot paper is to the list all the candidates up for election. A bit of a problem then that ballot papers have been going out in several parts of Cornwall with the bottom candidate missing - because the paper was cut in the wrong place by [...]