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Prestatyn is a seaside town on the Irish Sea coast of north-east Wales. Evidence points to the location of the present town having been occupied since prehistoric times. Prehistoric tools have been found in the caves of nearby Craig Fawr. The Romans were stationed in the area. The Normans built a castle here which was destroyed by Owain Gwynedd in 1167. In the 19th and 20th centuries the town became a popular seaside tourist destination.

News from the Celtic League:

The General Secretary of the Celtic League has written a strongly worded protest to the EU Fisheries Commissioner about the untrammelled exploitation of global fishery resources by EU conglomerates.

The EU legitimises the destruction of fish stocks often using its economic clout to pressure smaller countries such as those of West Africa to allow its trawlers access.

News From Kernow Matters To Us:

Westminster appointed Planning Inspector sent down from Bristol shakes in anger!

As a protest occurred outside the Atlantic Hotel, Newquay, a furious row ensued inside as the Chair of Kernow Matters To Us (KMTU),  local Councillor Mike Chappell, crossed swords with the Westminster Government Planning Inspector sent down from Bristol to determine how many houses will be built in Cornwall by 2030.

News From The Celtic League:

Frongoch is a village in Gwynedd north Wales. It is located close to the market town of Bala. It was the home of the Frongoch internment camp, used to hold Irish Republican prisoners from the 1916 Rising.  There were approximately 1,800 Irish prisoners in Frongoch, including prominent Irish revolutionaries Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith. Although enduring harsh conditions the Irish prisoners took the opportunity to exchange information and plan tactics for the next phase of the armed struggle for Irish freedom.

News From The Celtic League:

We’ve highlighted in several recent posts how the marine eco-system and wildlife within it are under threat.

Paradoxically as fish stocks and marine mammals have struggled to overcome with legacy issues such as toxic pollution and more current threats posed by military exercises and industrial scale fishing by EU super trawlers the value of the marine environment as a tourism asset has started to be realised.

New From The Celtic League:

I was interested to have contact with and get information from campaigners in Wales concerned about nerve gas stored following WW2 at a quarry earmarked for a hydro-electric plant.

Their Freedom of Information request over possible contamination at the Glyn Rhonwy site near Llanberis was refused by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), who stated that:

“release of the information would enable ill-disposed persons or organisations to act against the national interest, and that therefore on balance the information should be withheld”.

News from Kernow Matters To Us:

Some members of Kernow Matters To Us (KMTU) spent a very pleasant time in Tresillian recently.

With most of our team members being involved with the various events at Camborne's Trevithick Day, a group gathered at the Wheel Inn, Tresillian Bridge just outside of Truro, Cornwall on Saturday 30th April, 2016 in order to commemorate the Peace Treaty of Tresillian Bridge, Cornwall which occurred on 12th March 1646, just over 370 years ago.

News From Kernow Matters To Us:

The ongoing petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/128474

Our Dragon is red,

Our land is green,

We're Welsh and proud,

So we'll bow to no Queen

News from Kernow Matters To Us:

'Kernow Matters To Us' (KMTU) utterly condemns the United Kingdom Government for failing to return £150,000 of Cornwall raised taxation in order to support the Cornish language.

It is possible that this move may be in contravention of the spirit of the Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in 2003 and the recognition of the Cornish people as a national minority in April 2014 and their incorporation into the Framework Convention for National Minorities.