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News from Mannin Branch of the Celtic League:

Only weeks after the Fukushima disaster in Japan the British nuclear industry said it had learned lessons.

Well we learned something new this week and that was that the operators of the stricken Japanese plant were less than frank about the nature of the disaster and this week they had to apologise for the ‘cover-up’ (see link):

News from the Celtic League:

The ruling this week by France's top judicial court the Court of Cassation has confirmed a decision to close the case of a French trawler that sunk over a decade ago off the Cornish coast, killing all five members on board.

The Bugaled Breizh a well equipped and competently crewed vessel capsized suddenly and sank 14 miles off the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall in January 2004.

Family members and supporter suspect a submarine taking part in a NATO exercise at the time caused the vessel to founder.

News From Cutlure Vannin:

Press Release: New Manx Language on-line course launched

Culture Vannin is pleased to announce the launch of a new on-line language course for beginner learners of Manx. The new course has been produced in conjunction with the highly successful on-line course provider Say Something in Welsh (SSIW) and initially consists of 18, 30 minute lessons or word games that provide a remarkable introduction to learning the language.

News From Adrian Cain, Manx Language Development Officer for Culture Vannin:

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Given that there is so much going on this Saturday I thought we’d turn it into an impromptu Manx Language Day.

Start the day at 10.30am with an advanced Manx Language Class at the House of Manannan in Peel. Follow this by enrolling for the Manx buddy system with Pobble which is going very well. (See information on Pobble buddy system below).

News From Kernow Matters To Us:

KMTU members with other organisations have battled those who wish to concrete over Kernow.

With our membership growing on a daily basis as a sense of unease grips the people of Cornwall over so many issues, we pay tribute to those members who have fought hard to slow the concreting over of Cornwall.

Not much can be added to this article lifted intact from the always excellent website "An Sionnach Fionn", written by  Seamus O’ Sionnaigh. God bless this man, a true champion of Celtic culture:

Government Rejects Secular Irish-Medium School Despite Record Popularity

In September 2013 Glasgow City Council announced a "Four Year Gaelic Language Plan". That plan, in compliance with the Gaelic Language Act of 2005 under which local Councils are required to prepare a plan for promoting and preserving the tongue, seems to be having an impact.

Congratulations to Wales, who beat Russia 3 - 0 at the Euro Championship in France last night. They qualified top of their group to reach the last 16 in the tournament. The 2016 UEFA European Championship (the international men's football championship of Europe) started on 10 June and ends on 10 July 2016.

It has been quite a week for a cat from Leverburgh (Scottish Gaelic: An Tòb). The cat managed to stowaway on a yacht which had stopped at his island home in Harris (Scottish Gaelic: Na Hearadh) in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. He then travelled nearly 200 nautical miles all the way to Oban.

News from Mannin Branch of the Celtic League:

‘Something stinks about the Jones case and the smell doesn’t come from Mr Jones’s home it comes from the HQ of NW Police and RAF Valley!’

There is a bizarre case unfolding in North Wales at the moment surrounding the alleged activities of a man, John Arthur Jones, said at the start of his case last year to have become obsessed with the activities of military training aircraft over his home.