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Restormel was a borough of Cornwall,England,one of the six administrative divisions that made up the county. Its council was based in St Austell;its other towns included Newquay.
The South Western Football League was an English association football league composed of clubs from Cornwall and west and north Devon. It consisted of a single division at the eleventh overall tier of the English football league system,the seventh and lowest "Step" of the official National League System. The East Cornwall League and Cornwall Combination ranked below the South Western on the overall pyramid,and in turn have feeder leagues of their own.
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Dick Cole is a Cornish politician,currently serving as an elected member of Cornwall Council and the leader of the Cornish devolutionist political party,Mebyon Kernow,a role he has held since 1997. He is currently one of the longest serving political leaders in Britain. Dick Cole was first elected MK leader in 1997.
St Austell and Newquay is a constituency in Cornwall represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Noah Law,a Labour MP. It is on the South West Peninsula of England,bordered by both the Celtic Sea to the northwest and English Channel to the southeast.
The Cornish Guardian is a weekly newspaper in Cornwall,England,UK,which is part of the Cornwall &Devon Media group. Its head office is in Truro and it is published in seven separate editions:
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The region of South West England has,since the 2010 general election,55 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 15 borough constituencies and 40 county constituencies. At that election the Conservative Party held the largest number of constituencies,with 36. The Liberal Democrats had 15 and Labour had 4. At the 2015 general election the Liberal Democrats lost all of their seats,while the Conservatives gained one seat from Labour,leaving the Conservatives with 51 and Labour with 4. In the 2017 general election,the Conservatives remained,by far,the largest party with 47 seats,though losing three to Labour,who won 7,and one to the Liberal Democrats,who won 1. In the 2019 general election,the Conservatives increased their number of seats to 48 by regaining Stroud from Labour,who held their other six seats,while the Liberal Democrats retained their sole seat in Bath.
The Cornwall College Group is a further education college situated on eight sites throughout Cornwall and Devon,England,United Kingdom,with its headquarters in St Austell.
Truro and St Austell was a county constituency in Cornwall represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from its 1997 creation to its 2010 abolition by Matthew Taylor of the Liberal Democrats,who was appointed a life peer in the House of Lords following his service as a Member of Parliament (MP). The constituency elected one MP by the first past the post system of election.
Caroline Anne Righton,is an English television presenter and author,best known for being a presenter on the daily breakfast television station TV-am and being an anchor of the Channel 4 news show,The Channel Four Daily.
Stephen David John Gilbert is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was elected at the 2010 general election the Member of Parliament (MP) for the new constituency of St Austell and Newquay,but lost his seat at the 2015 general election to the Conservative Party candidate Steve Double. He now teaches politics at Highgate School,having previously taught history and politics at the King's School,Worcester.
Mebyon Kernow –The Party for Cornwall is a Cornish nationalist,centre-left political party in Cornwall,United Kingdom. It primarily campaigns for devolution to Cornwall in the form of a Cornish Assembly. It has representatives in local government,but has never succeeded in national elections.
Stephen Daniel Double is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Austell and Newquay from 2015 until 2024 when he was defeated in the 2024 United Kingdom general election by Labour candidate Noah Law. He served as a junior Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 28 October 2022 to 13 November 2023.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cornwall:Cornwall –ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom. Cornwall is a peninsula bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea,to the south by the English Channel,and to the east by the county of Devon,over the River Tamar. Cornwall is also a royal duchy of the United Kingdom. It has an estimated population of half a million and it has its own distinctive history and culture.
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Truro and Newquay was a proposed parliamentary constituency in Cornwall. It was planned to take effect from the election in May 2022 before the 2019 general election but the Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill was not passed. Electoral Calculus predicted that the new seat would have been a fairly safe Conservative win,with 51.3% of the predicted vote. It was predicted to have 74,228 constituents. The seat was scrapped after the government halted the re-drawing in 2020,saying that the "change in policy" had been brought about due to the UK's exit from the EU.
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- ↑ "About Me". NOAH LAW. 2023-08-23. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
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