Conservatives under fire for banning local paper from filming Theresa May

Theresa May makes a campaign stop at a company in St Ives, Cornwall, on Tuesday.The Conservative party has been accused of showing contempt for local media after Cornwall’s biggest news website was banned from filming Theresa May’s visit to a factory.Reporters from Cornwall Live complained that they were shut in a room to enforce the video ban while the prime minister was visiting a diving equipment factory in Helston, in the marginal seat of St Ives.