Pasties in SPAAAAACE: Cornwall hopes for slice of £50m spaceport cash Cornwall has thrown its hat in the ring to become the prime location for Human Centred Space businesses by 2030. The UK Space Agency is deciding where to splash £50m to build British spaceports. Spaceports are intended to help Blighty access a global market for launching small satellites worth £10bn over 10 years, and offer …
"considerable investment from the European Union in the form of projects such as high-speed internet connectivity."
Cornwall should have rather a lot of internet. Porthcurno is still the landing point for trans-Atlantic and other cables,
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/15/geeks_guide_to_britain_porthcurno/
The transatlantic cables bring no benefit locally. It's not like, say, a Nigerian oil pipeline we can tap in to and help ourselves. It's just disruption when they dig up the roads.
Special funding for rural broadband is an altogether different question.
I'm sure your tongue was in your cheek there, but it brought back memories of the time when both my on-road routes to work (about six miles at the time) were dug up.
For you right pondians, the youngest's current bedtime reading and discussion book is Ask An Astronaut, by your own Tim Peake. There are numerous questions about food of course, and apparently Tim used his 10% Personal Choice list to bring up some British treats. Cornish Pasties sadly was not amongst the list of edibles they could take to the ISS.
Beer, since I'm pretty sure that it was one of the banned foods.....
The University of Exeter has a presence in Cornwall at Penryn where it shares a Campus with Falmouth University so I think that is what was meant. The University transports some of its staff around in large cars with UOE number plates; very nouveau riche. If you follow the link you included in your piece . . . .
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