The badly-needed posh visitors can't all stay at the nearby Carlyon Bay hotel, though it was good enough for Tony Blair's recent visit. But Cornwall needs its own university. There are plans to create a greenfield campus at Penryrn next to the distinguished Falmouth School of Art, with 300m worth of EU funds provided under ''objective one'' programmes for poor regions. But 30m of matching funds must be found from business, government or philanthropists. The higher education funding council, Whitehall's arms-length manager of university cash, has no capital fund.
Meetings are under way but it is tricky.
Yet a knowledge economy where unskilled jobs are in dwindling supply needs educated people to stay in Cornwall. So did my brothers and sisters. Just in Penwith mining captain - though they all came home to die. If I do the same I will unavoidably price someone out of a home they might otherwise have afforded. But it is managing them better.