The Secret Service storms the beaches of Cornwall for G7: Airbase is turned into a huge RV camp

US President Joe Biden is bringing so many security staff to the G7 summit that they are having to stay in hired camper vans as there is not enough accommodation for all them.

More than 50 of the luxury vehicles – known as RVs – have been delivered to a RAF air base 20 miles from where the meeting of world leaders takes place at the weekend.

A 400-strong contingent of Secret Service agents and support staff are due to arrive for the summit being hosted by Boris Johnson and held in the tiny Cornish resort of Carbis Bay.

With more than 5,000 police from all over the UK providing security and thousands of holidaymakers already in the local area almost every hotel and B&B in a 30-mile radius of Carbis Bay have been booked.

More than 1,000 police will be staying on a cruise liner docked in Falmouth harbour.

The RVs – often used by celebrities when attending events such as Glastonbury – have been parked up at the St Mawgan airbase near Newquay.

Some 30 vehicles have been leased from a Somerset company called Empire RV. They supply the luxury vehicles for film shoots and for people attending Grand Prix events.

The US camper vans are so large that the company warns many can only be driven by one of their experienced staff and are not available for self-drive hire.

The most luxurious American campers – some the size of a articulated lorry – can sleep up to eight people and come equipped with satellite TV and many other home comforts.

The RVs are expected to be driven to the Tregenna Hotel in Carbis Bay where the US President is due to stay during the three-day conference.

The US motor homes have been rented for £2,500 each for a week by the US Embassy in London and include the 45ft long former RV used by Jensen Button when he was racing in Formula 1. 

A spokesman for Bristol based Empire RV said they had set up a mini village at the St Mawgan airbase. The RVs will be used by support staff and Secret Service agents for President Joe Biden during his stay in Cornwall.  

His helicopter Marine One practised landing on the golf course at the resort on Monday evening as his pilots familiarised the route they will take after Air Force One lands at Newquay Airport later this week.

The skies above Cornwall have been buzzing with US military aircraft in preparation for Biden’s arrival.

Three US Marine Osprey aircraft have been seen over St Michael Mount and the Carbis Bay area.

It is his Biden’s overseas trip since being sworn in as president in January after beating Donald Trump in the November election.

The 400 strong contingent of staff accompanying the President is so large the Cabinet Office, who are organising the G7 event, baulked at waiving quarantine rules for so many.

But after assurances all staff accompanying the President have undergone Covid tests, as well as being fully vaccinated, approval was given.

Members of the Secret Service, who are tasked with protecting the President, have made numerous visits to the Carbis Bay hotel where the conference will be held.

They have been liaising with Devon and Cornwall Police over security arrangements being put in place during the summit which begins on June 11th.

Protestors have vowed to attempt to disrupt the conference leading 5,000 police from around the UK being drafted in to provide round the clock security.

Residents living near to the hotel with have to show two forms of ID to be allowed past check points as a ring of steel is thrown around the summit venue with roads and coastal footpaths closed.

Police began ramping up security by announcing they would be closing down access to the 30 bridges over the A30–the main road leading and into Cornwall and towns such as Bodmin, Redruth and Truro.

Fears that the protestors from Extinction Rebellion and other groups will try to shut down the A30 led police to restrict access.

Paper notices have been pinned to lampposts informing residents that the bridges will be closed for up to 21 days.

The notices read:’ It is necessary to mitigate the danger to the public or damage to the highway ( from incidents) that may arise from the hosting of an event taking place in Carbis Bay.’

A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said the closures had been enforced under Anti-Terrorism Traffic Regulation Orders.

The cost of policing the G7 Summit has been put at £70million and is by far the biggest security operation put into force in Devon and Cornwall.

Climate change activists have been warned they will not be allowed to stage any demonstration near to the Carbis Bay area with designated for protests in Falmouth and Plymouth.

But with Extinction Rebellion calling on its supporters to converge of Cornwall there are fears they will attempt to breach the security cordon thrown around the Carbis Bay and St Ives area.

A protest group Resist G7 has started a GoFundMe donation page to raise money for protestors to travel and stay in Cornwall during the conference.