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My ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio Cornwall colleague Martin Bailie has just recorded an interview with Communities Secretary Eric Pickles - you can hear it after 5pm. In answer to a question about the Conservatives' pre-election promise that Cornwall would have its own minister, Mr Pickles said there would be an announcement "in the not too far distant......" When Martin pressed him to say when, Mr Pickles said it would be soon. And when Martin protested the failure to answer, Mr Pickles said: "I've gone further than soon. I've said fairly soon."

You couldn't make it up.