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A tourist tax may not fix Cornwall, but it’ll make it more expensive to visit

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[ Cornwall is struggling with the influx of visitors it receives each year (Photo: Ashley Cooper/Getty/Corbis RF Stills) With the cost of living biting and the UK’s tax burden at an all-time high, the prospect of an extra levy on your summer holiday is anything but welcome. But that’s what Malcolm Bell, head of Visit … Read more

New asylum ‘crisis’ as Home Office errors add to avalanche of appeals

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[ The Home Office’s unsuccessful scramble to meet Rishi Sunak’s pledge to clear an asylum backlog is leading to a new “crisis” with a rapidly expanding mountain of appeals threatening to clog up the tribunal system, i has learnt. Specialist lawyers have said there will not be enough of them to handle the extra cases … Read more