{"id":260602,"date":"2025-11-13T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260602\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:39:07","slug":"unbearable-costs-taking-toll-cornwall-business-leader-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260602\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbearable costs taking toll, Cornwall business leader says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Gates said: &#8220;People can do so much in terms of making sure the numbers add up but if it is too tough then tough decisions have to be made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Trago on Arwenack Street was &#8220;an anchor&#8221; in that part of the town but businesses were facing costs that had &#8220;gone through the roof&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Brown said he thought customers were watching their spending and taking advantage of online discounts which he said were &#8220;decimating some of the high street options&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have to restimulate the economy and that starts by creating positive conditions for growth,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Gates said: &#8220;People can do so much in terms of making sure the numbers add up but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-260602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}