Cornwall Council is scrapping its Your Cornwall newspaper, after it cost the taxpayer £270,000 in less than a year.

The community paper, which is distributed to households and businesses in Cornwall every month, has made a huge loss after failing to fund itself through advertising, as was initially planned.

The decision to scrap it was made at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday following a review of the newspaper, ordered by Cornwall Council's chief executive Kevin Lavery.

To read more see this week's Cornish Times.