Cornwall will host some of the world’s most powerful leaders from tonight – with thousands of delegates, journalists and police in the county ahead of the G7 summit.
After months of preparation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will welcome the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and the United States at Carbis Bay in St Ives.
“It’s the biggest security and policing event in England this year,” Devon and Cornwall Police Superintendent Joanne Hall told Sky News.
“You can imagine the complexities that come with it, the logistical challenges – but we’ve been planning for months now and we’re ready and prepared for this event.”
Police officers in front of the Carbis Bay Hotel ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall
About 6,500 police officers from across the country are in Cornwall to protect the summit.
In addition to the 4,000 rooms reserved, around 1,000 agents will be accommodated on an Estonian cruise ship docked in Falmouth with more than 16,000 meals prepared each day.
In recent days, the event has seen sleepy parts of Cornwall turned into secure, locked-down areas – with military radar equipment on beaches, police on jet skis and British warships patrolling an exclusion zone around the site from the seafront.
The summit officially begins on Friday and ends on Sunday 13 June – but preparations for the event have already had an impact on the lives of people in Cornwall.
A mobile radar station set up in the National Trust car park at Godrevy, near St Ives, Cornwall, before the G7 summit
“My business is closing Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,” says Roger, who organizes fishing trips in St Ives.
“One of the skippers can’t come here, and we just decided it wasn’t worth being late and having bad reviews. It’s an exciting time as to what they [G7 leaders] can do but right now it’s a …
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Source: news.sky.com
This notice was published: 2021-06-08 21:58:00