Council newspaper scrapped

CORNWALL Council is scrapping its controversial newspaper, it has been announced.

Your Cornwall, a free monthly publication which was projected to cost £400,000 per year to operate, has been axed by the new Cornwall Council because "it is not working".

The decision comes after an initial review of spending by the new Tory-led council.

Alec Robertson, leader of the council, said: “We are serious about delivering improvements for the people of Cornwall, both in our front line services and in the way we let people know what their council is doing. It is important to face up to what is and isn’t working with honesty and to take appropriate measures at an early stage where changes need to be made.

“It is clear that Your Cornwall, which was part of the former County Council’s plan to improve the way it communicated with the public, is not working and is costing too much. We have a duty to council tax payers in Cornwall to spend their money wisely and feel that this money would be better spent on frontline services.”

The newspaper was distributed to more than 240,000 homes and businesses across the county.

For more see Thursday's Western Morning News.