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Recently a young couple were upset because they could not have their part of the marriage ceremony conducted in the Cornish Language.

A simple tweet regarding this made headlines and the usual anti Cornish vitriol and shocking nastiness ensued in the comments columns and on social media. We have recorded as much of this hatred as possible as an ongoing example of the insults endured by Cornish people.

'Kernow Matters' arranged to have a bouquet of flowers delivered to the couple to express our best wishes and support.

On the 23rd January, 2021, the Westminster Government announced that the G7 Summit would be held in Carbis Bay, Cornwall from the 11th to 13th June, 2021 and an official 'News story' was published by the government.

Wales have deservedly won the 2021 Six Nations Championship rugby union competition this year. Helped on the way by Scotland's dramatic last minute win over France by 23-27 points in Paris. At the end of the game Scotland were presented with the Auld Alliance Trophy. This is a trophy in rugby union awarded to the winner of the annual Six Nations Championship match between France and Scotland.

Wales have won the 2021 Guinness Six Nations champions after fellow Celts Scotland beat France in the exciting final minutes of the final game of the Championship in Paris. There had been a chance that France could have won the title had they beaten Scotland by a winning margin of 21 points. This was not to be and Wales also played some part in the Scottish victory as Steve Tandy, a Welsh former rugby union player, is the defence coach for Scottish rugby.

Cornwall is set to strengthen its relationship with Brittany on important areas such as trade, fishing and agriculture in a bid to work together in a post-Brexit world to benefit residents and businesses.

On March 24 Cornwall Council’s leader, Julian German, signed what is known as a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of Brittany, Loïg Chesnais-Girard.

The agreement between Cornwall Council and Brittany Council is important as it will help to build strong relations with a neighbouring European region at a time of a changing relationship with the EU.

A new album that will celebrate the cultural and musical links between the Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin) and Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is to be recorded by a Scottish harpist and Manx Gaelic Singer. Scotland's Rachel Hair is seen as one of the world’s finest exponents of Scottish harp (clarsach) playing. She has performed internationally, released five critically-acclaimed albums and published four harp books. Ruth Keggin has released two critically-acclaimed solo albums in the Manx Gaelic language.

Recently, Steph and her fiancé came in for much abuse from 'up country' for wishing to use the Cornish language at their wedding. 

The comments made via the London based media was truly shocking. 

Even local media Facebook pages became littered with vile remarks.

Sadly, media outlets fail to accept responsibility for what their followers write and say and it is a well known fact that anything relating to Cornwall and the Cornish national minority results in racist remarks. This fact was recently reported on by a Cornish academic.

The photographs below show a couple of brave protesters who went in to the building site during 18th March, 2021, while building was going on, to show what they thought about the utter desecration of this unique piece of landscape, a site that has been savagely cleared of the existing natural environment of a mixed and self-evolved ecology of mature trees, shrubs, plants, animals, birds and insects.

Cornwall Council Enforcement Team have intervened but the work continues and has shocked not only local residents but people from further afield.

According to a report in the British Times newspaper today (18th March 2021) the United Kingdom (UK) is seriously looking at establishing centres abroad where asylum seekers could be sent for processing. The article also suggests that the British overseas territory of Gibraltar is under consideration by officials, as well as the Isle of Man and other islands close to the British coast.

A handwritten copy of a song by Robert Burns, rediscovered in an album is about to be auctioned and could fetch between £8,000 - £12,000. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) was born in the Scottish village of  Alloway (Scottish Gaelic Allmhaigh) and is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. The song is called The Banks of the Cree.