{"id":544063,"date":"2026-04-22T04:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544063\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:55:14","slug":"cornwall-council-says-it-will-listen-to-concerns-over-weedkiller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544063\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall Council says it will listen to concerns over weedkiller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuesday&#8217;s motion was advisory, meaning cabinet is not legally obliged to act on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Demonstrations were held outside the council&#8217;s headquarters in Truro during the full council meeting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green group leader councillor Drew Creek said reintroducing glyphosate would be harmful to human health as well as the environment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Creek said he hoped the council would &#8220;work collaboratively&#8221; with town and parish councils to &#8220;explore other options&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour group leader, councillor Kate Ewert, said smaller councils had been &#8220;disrespected and ignored&#8221; during the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve given them no time to put in back-up plans, essentially just holding a gun to their head to say &#8216;you have to opt in&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday&#8217;s motion was advisory, meaning cabinet is not legally obliged to act on it. Demonstrations were held outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-544063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544063","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=544063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}