The first purpose-built film studios to be built in Britain since 1923 are to be developed at St Agnes in Cornwall.
A third of the £5.76m cost of the South West Film Studios comes from the European Unions Objective One funding programme in a bid to boost the UKs poorest county.
The studios will contain two covered sound stages and state-of-the-art production facilities.
The Times 20/07/02 page 3