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    Secrets on Cornwall’s Devolution Petition may be blocked

    Posted on 9 February 2012 | No Comments
    With Mebyon Kernow, Plaid Cymru, and others calling the current UK government to account for the inaction of its predecessors over a call by 50,000 of the Cornish public in 2002 for a devolution referendum – it appears Mr Cameron’s Government may now be complicit...
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    Yippee Ti-Yi-Yo, English Nature’s got to go

    Posted on 23 December 2011 | No Comments
    The UK Quango, called Natural England, (aka English Nature) is an Executive Non-departmental Public Body responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. “Our purpose is to protect and improve England’s natural environment and encourage people to enjoy and get involved...
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    10 Years on – Petition for a Cornish Assembly

    Posted on 16 December 2011 | 1 Comment
    Councillor Cole said that “Today (10 December, 2011) marks the tenth anniversary of the presentation of 50,000 Declarations for a Cornish Assembly to 10 Downing Street. Getting over 50,000 people to show their support for a Cornish Assembly in less than twenty months was a truly...
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    Cornish Celts exist, says Prof Peter Beresford Ellis

    Posted on 31 October 2011 | No Comments
    The Celtic Nations, 1961- 2011, a Sea Change? Some personal views, by Professor Peter Beresford Ellis Below is the text of the presentation about the Celtic League which was prepared by leading Celticist, historian and author, Peter Beresford Ellis and presented on his behalf to...
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    Will St Piran’s Day become a Cornish national bank holiday?

    Posted on 26 July 2011 | 2 Comments
    A petition to Cornwall Council for St Piran’s Day, Gol Peran, the 5th March, to become a Duchy-wide official holiday was started by the Celtic League in February this year and has drawn nearly 8,000 signatures. It is under consideration by the Council. Many others...
  • Policing in Cornwall may be even more from ‘up country’

    Policing in Cornwall may be even more from ‘up country’

    Posted on 15 July 2011 | 2 Comments
    In a ConDem government move than would further distance policing of Cornwall from the community of the Duchy, the UK Government’s so-called Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill is at the 3rd reading, due by the House of Lords for next Tuesday, 19/07/2011 The Bill...
  • Large longhorn cattle graze on Cornish moorlands where animals of that size they have never grazed before

    [Save Penwith Moors] Damage at Tregeseal Stone Circle – Yet again!!

    Posted on 18 June 2011 | No Comments
    Written by Save Penwith Moors - On 14th June 2011 it was reported to us by a local walker on Carnyorth Common near St Just-in-Penwith that a stone of Tregeseal Circle had developed a severe lean. Two days later it was discovered that a second...
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    Cornish seek recognition: Will Westminster recognise the Cornish people as a nation and a UK ethnic minority?

    Posted on 13 June 2011 | 1 Comment
    The Second Cornish National Minority Report entitled: “Including the Cornish – a unique case for recognition” has been officially launched. Produced from the work of broad-based steering group, it builds on the first report produced in 1999. The report seeks to extend the case for...
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    AV rejected but electoral and constitutional reform still needed

    Posted on 12 May 2011 | 1 Comment
    The UK wide referendum on the proposed introduction of an optional preferential Alternative Vote (AV) system last week resulted in a clear rejection of, in Deputy PM Nick Clegg’s pre-election terms, “a miserable little compromise” to the hoped for proportional representation system. It however cannot...
  • Cornish Bards from across Australia, and from Cornwall and USA gather at Davies Square, Wallaroo, during the 2009 Kernewek Lowender

    Kernewek Lowender: World’s largest Cornish festival underway for 20th time

    Posted on 12 May 2011 | No Comments
    With Padstow’s ‘Obby ‘Os and Helston Flora Day now out of the way, Cornish eyes now go down to the Yorke Peninsular in South Australia whwre the Kernewek Lowender (the world’s largest Cornish festival) is well ready to get underway today (10 May). The 20th...
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