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Cornwall misses out on a broadcast TV station

Cornwall misses out on a broadcast TV station The Westminster government Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s local TV plan recently unveiled the  location of 65 potential local broadcast TV stations across…

Australian Census 2011 – Yes, the Cornish count!

It is now Australia’s Census time, and yes the Cornish need to be counted! Cornish born, or with Cornish men or women in your ancestry? Now is the time to…

Will St Piran’s Day become a Cornish national bank holiday?

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…

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

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…

Craig Weatherhill: Sacred Stones v Sacred Cows (Saving Penwith Moors)

IF someone took a wrecking ball to the Tower of London, there’d be an uproar, and rightly so. But, in West Cornwall, an unelected quango moves in and, in spite…