HOME to the largest Cornish pasty producer in the world, Callington is trying to be more than the home of Ginsters. The pasty producer is by far the largest employer in Callington but the South East Cornwall town, once a thriving market town at the crossroad of the Duchy's great north-south and east-west axes, is striving to be more than that.
Closer to Tavistock and Plymouth than it is to Truro, the town, which is home to 6,800 people including a well-integrated Polish community, is also fighting to make itself heard when South East Cornwall is often ignored.
"You will see as many St Piran flags here as you would in Camborne," Andrew Long, the Cornwall councillor for the area and deputy leader of the Mebyon Kernow party, said as we sat over a cup of coffee inside the town hall. "The difference with Camborne is that we suffer from isolation. We're 50 miles from Truro and in South East Cornwall that 50 miles is massive.
"Down here you don't get any bus discount from Cornwall Council if your journey finishes in Devon when we're less than 10 miles from Plymouth or Tavistock and these are closer to us than Truro. There is a lot of frustration in South East Cornwall. We do feel at times that we're forgotten by the rest of Cornwall. We don't use Treliske here. Derriford is our hospital. Yet we have to pay a charge to use our free NHS hospital every time we have to cross the bridge."
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