Activists have revived the Cornwall Trade Union Council.

Thirty people from nine different unions in the county have relaunched the council after many years.

A spokesperson said the council aims ‘to fight for better jobs and defend public services for all Cornish people’.

Council president John Dean said: ‘Many activists from Cornish trade union branches will have been waiting a long time for this.

‘Now is the time for us to become much better organised.

‘Whether it is the continued and increasingly blatant privatisation of our education, NHS and other public services, the erosion of workers’ rights such as legal aid and employment tribunals, or, to add insult to injury, the apparent Conservative desire to keep Cornish wages and salaries among the lowest in the UK, Cornwall Trade Union Council will co-ordinate the people’s determined fight for justice, fairness and decency.’