Free parking paramount to Cornish businesses and local groups

Abhishek Dey and Arunoday Mukharji in India and Jessica Parker in Brussels EPA/Shutterstock (From left) European Council President António Costa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Delhi on Tuesday The European Union and India have announced a landmark trade deal after nearly two decades of on-off talks,…

Chiltern Railways has been brought into public ownership after 30 years as a private company. It is the 10th rail company now under the Great British Railways (GBR), the government’s programme of public ownership, which it says will save money and improve services. Chiltern Railways, which was privatised in 1996, operates services from London Marylebone…

Taiwan says it will block access to popular Chinese social media app RedNote or Xiaohongshu for one year following concerns over online shopping scams. The island’s Criminal Investigation Bureau said Thursday it detected more than 1,700 fraud cases on the app since last year, with total losses worth more than NT$247m (£5.9m; $7.9m), local media…

“We’re seeing it in terms of technology, we see it in terms of the approach, we see it in terms of these kinds of tactics, and we see it in terms of the way these two states try to support each other and try to benefit together,” she said during a visit to Saudi Arabia.

The campaigners are also concerned about the potential impact on the environment. “The data centre planned would be an environmental nightmare both for the wildlife and the local residents,” said Lizzie Bailey, who lives locally. “This will be a temporary disruption with the construction but then a permanent disruption because of the diesel generators, the…