Jacqui Merrington, the digital editor of Cornwall Live, said the restriction showed an old-fashioned attitude towards the media. “It feels like either contempt or a lack of understanding of what we do in the local press generally. You can’t expect any local media to be entirely print-focused now and not have any digital element,” she said. The organisation’s journalists did interview the prime minister and their photographer accompanied the prime minister on a factory tour. During the visit, May was due to attack the Liberal Democrats for trying to reopen last year’s EU referendum battles in the party’s former stronghold in south-west England.

Source: The Guardian May 02, 2017 10:02 UTC