Cornwall Council's Conservatives and Liberal Democrat groups have revealed alternative budget plans which they say can allow council tax to be frozen.

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Health care bosses said they would "engage with other groups to create alternative proposals that would be more sustainable in the long-term".

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Radical student groups still provide one alternative for those disillusioned with the official reform parties but, says Mahmud, the atmosphere on campus is not what it used to be.

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