Change in the air

摘要

It's all glamour when you're a royal, as A the Duchess of Cornwall no doubt mused on her first official visit to the county whose name she has borne since she married the heir to the British throne in April this year. On May 20th she accompanied her husband to open a new arrivals lounge at a small airport. For Cornwall at least, such developments are exciting. Cornwall is poor. Its GDP per head is only around half the national average and one-third that of Britain's richest county, Berkshire. Cornwall is one of only four areas in the UK which qualify for poverty-related grants from the European Union.