Malcolm Bell, head of tourism at Visit Cornwall said budgetary restraints forced the closure of the information centre last year.

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He has also criticised government budgetary restraints he felt penalised the socially challenged, defended his stance against the introduction of women bishops and called for restraint in the criticism of the unpopular Blackburn Rovers manager Steve Kean, reminding people there is "a human being in the middle of all this".

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