Stadium for Cornwall will happen – Durkin

By MIKE SINCLAIR

Cornish Pirates chairman Paul Durkin has reassured fans that plans for a proposed Stadium for Cornwall – and the dream of Premiership rugby – are still very much alive.
The long-running project looked “dead in the water” in June when Cornwall Council, who had pledged £3 million to match a similar amount of Government funding originally promised by former PM David Cameron – but never delivered – withdrew support for the stadium from its budget.
But Durkin says: “It is very much alive and will happen. It was a bit of a shock to be told that we weren’t going to get public fi...

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