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Council tenders for contract for continued operations of an office in Brussels after Brexit.
Two different programmes since 1999 have brought nearly £800 million to dozens of projects.
‘We’re pretty much in the same position as we were before. Maybe we’re a little worse off’
At the last general election, all of you stood on a platform of “getting Brexit done”. / Voters were told in your party’s manifesto that this would “unleash the potential of our whole country” and “transform the UK for the better”.
The moves are reminiscent of other changes to fish names to make them sound more appealing. Patagonian toothfish, for example, was changed to become Chilean seabass in the United States and Canada.
The Pool firm is considering opening up a new branch in Barcelona rather than the UK if a No Deal Brexit becomes reality.
Cornwall’s Varfell Farms doesn’t have enough pickers as Cornish workers don’t last.
It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as failure to award enough licences to the French mean our government is now loathed by fishermen on both sides of the channel.
Blame successive UK governments, not the EU, for fact that one Dutch ship has a larger UK quota than entire Cornish fishing fleet, say South East Cornwall Labour group
Brexit: despatches from the downside – No 9
17/11/2023
Your weekly update from the Brexit ‘downside bunker’, chronicling the downsides, and occasional upsides, of Brexit.
British beaches inundated with sewage while water quality across the EU dramatically improves
22/08/2022
Water companies in the UK have been accused of failing to monitor the amount of sewage pumped into the sea at popular beaches across the country.
Many Brits will be forced to go without a Christmas turkey this year because of Brexit labour shortages, MPs were told this afternoon.
South Yorkshire to lose £900m and Tees Valley and Durham £750m, Michael Gove told – despite pledge to ‘match’ EU funds
Businesses have been hit hard by Brexit, according to research by an affiliation on Chambers of Commerce in the region.
Cornish exporters 'struggling' to get goods like meat and fish into EU since Brexit signing
31/01/2021
Cornwall Chamber of Commerce says some are reporting long delays and even being refused entry
Cornish fishers renaming species unpopular with British buyers after Brexit disrupts EU market
09/02/2021
Megrim and spider crab will be rebranded in desperate attempt to boost domestic market.
Cornish fishermen are concerned about the future of their jobs as shellfish exports to the European Union have stopped since the UK left the EU.
Cornish pasty and clotted cream could lose protected status in post-Brexit trade agreements
20/11/2021
Cornish peer Lord Tyler has highlighted the issue after it was revealed that the UK was unable to keep the humble pasty protected in a new trade agreement with Norway.
Cornish towns count cost of Brexit vote
15/03/2022
Cornish towns are concerned that post-Brexit funding will mean far less money for redevelopment projects. Projects such as the redevelopment of a 120-year-old pier in Falmouth harbour look likely to to be abandoned as the details of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund slowly emerge.
Cornwall Council closes Brussels office
10/06/2021
Cornwall Council has started the process of closing down its Brussels office in response to the UK’s decision to leave the European Union.
The Conservatives have broken their promise to match EU funding at £100 million a year, providing just £43 million.
A Cornwall councillor has said the money the county council receives from the government to replace EU grants lost due to Brexit will run out in a month’s time.
'There won’t be a fishing industry in five years at this rate'
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Oystermen of the River Fal Estuary have been dredging in sailing boats for hundreds of years. / Exports to France where their catch of Native Oysters and Queen Scallops are popular have been hit hard by the implementation of EU health and safety rules since Brexit.
Cornwall is set to get less than half the amount of money it was expected to get from the EU before Brexit.
Cornwall may only get a maximum of £3million of cash from the Government to directly replace the £100m it could have been eligible for if the UK had remained in the EU, it has been claimed.
Conservative councillors say EU base is ‘waste of taxpayer money’.
Fields of flowers worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are being left to rot in Cornwall.
Time-sensitive seafood exports have been hit hard as the fishing industry struggles to deal with long-winded paperwork and new rules
Exactly what the EU has funded in Cornwall
29/03/2019
As Brexit drags on we look at where all the billions of pounds Cornwall has received from the EU has gone
Express goes bananas over EU
03/06/2016
The staunchly eurosceptic Daily Express has published a listicle about the “amazing things we get back if we leave EU”. / “From powerful vacuums to straight banana’s (sic), here are all the things we’ll get back if we vote out,” the paper says. / The piece has been getting widely shared online. But does it pass the FactCheck test?
Falmouth oysterman's 'all or nothing' bid to give canning business boost post Brexit and Covid slump
08/02/2023
A Cornish oysterman has launched an all or nothing fundraising campaign to get his canning business to a flying start and turn the tide on the post Brexit export slump.
Fears have been raised that the Cornish pasty could lose its special protected status after the Government was unable to have it secured in one of the latest trade agreements signed since Brexit.
In another example of post-Brexit trade problems, many UK fishermen are now struggling to export their catch to the EU.
In another example of post-Brexit trade problems, many UK fishermen are now struggling to export their catch to the EU.
A MUCH loved family man and keen rugby player took his own life after his business suffered financially due to Covid and Brexit.
Cornwall Council had been allowed to bid for £3m from the Community Renewal Fund but has been given just over £1m and there are fears that the Shared Prosperity Fund will not have enough to replace Cornwall's EU funding.
Has the Brexit fishing promise come true?
06/02/2023
Even though fishing is a tiny part of the UK economy, it was a key issue in the Brexit campaign with promises to "take back control" of British waters. / At the end of 2020, Boris Johnson announced his new Brexit trade agreement with the EU, promising that "[we will] be able to catch and eat quite prodigious quantities of extra fish".
Despite promises from chancellor Rishi Sunak to match the money it received from the European Union, Cornwall will receive just £1 million compared to the £100 million it used to get.
Officers from as far afield as Gwent in Wales, Devon and Cornwall and Yorkshire have all been moved to the county to deal with the contingency plans brought in to deal with the change in rules when travelling to EU countries.
Move over Cornwall, more Brits than ever are making the move to West Cork.
Flower growers fear end of the UK’s £100m industry as Covid and border restrictions lead to lack of seasonal workers.
‘Red Wall’ and other poor parts of England will lose as much as £1 billion of development cash this year because of Brexit, dashing Boris Johnson’s pledge to “level up” Britain.
Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement has failed to offer Yorkshire the same guarantee previously provided to Cornwall on the Government's flagship post-Brexit regional funding programme.
Spiralling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain
03/02/2022
As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it?
The great Brexit regional rip-off
18/08/2023
Wales and Scotland say they are missing out on hundreds of millions in funding from not being part of the EU.
Critical report by Council of Europe calls for more support for Cornish, Irish and Ulster Scots.
UK food shortages: Rural areas and summer holiday favourites at ‘back of queue’ for deliveries
22/07/2021
As supermarket giants pile pressure on suppliers to serve cities and bigger towns, shops in rural areas and tourist hotspots such as Cornwall, Norfolk and the Highlands stand to be overlooked.
A British fruit and veg farmer fears his crop will rot in the ground this year because of a shortage of pickers caused by Brexit and coronavirus.
Wales and Cornwall hardest hit as UK loses out on £11.4bn in EU regional funding after Brexit
23/01/2019
A 22 per cent rise in support would have been due in the next EU budget.
First minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, and Scotland's deputy first minister, Shona Robinson, will be among the Celtic leaders in attendance at the first meeting of its kind.
A Sheffield MP is demanding the Government replaces £605m of EU cash earmarked for South Yorkshire after Brexit.
‘I was lied to by Boris Johnson’: Why much of UK fishing is still waiting for a Brexit boost
21/01/2023
Almost four years after Johnson promised the fishing merchant the French would be desperate to buy his fish, the business has seen sales plummet 30% and export costs rise by as much as £3,000 a week.
In Newlyn, anger at red tape and the falling price of fish looks certain to be felt at council polls.
‘Stitched up and sold out’: UK’s fishing crews outraged at Brexit betrayal five years after referendum
23/06/2021
On the fifth anniversary of the vote to leave the EU, many in the fishing industry feel betrayed by a trade deal that effectively sacrificed one of the key promises of the Leave campaign.
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