Welsh government and Cornwall council sign collaboration deal

Mark Drakeford, the Welsh first minister, and the leader of Cornwall council, Linda Taylor. Drakeford said Wales ‘shares many historical, cultural and linguistic ties with Cornwall’. Photograph: Cornwall Council

They are separated by choppy waters – and different political ideologies.

But the leaders of Wales and Cornwall have come together to sign an agreement vowing to work together on shared issues, ranging from the crisis of holiday homes to the prospect of cooperating on offshore wind power projects in the Celtic Sea.