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The Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival took place between 31st August and 2nd September. Around 55,000 people attended the event this year and capacity is to be increased by 2,500 to 57,500 people next year. After the Festival was over, 650 sleeping bags were left by those attending. This prompted volunteers from Portlaoise Action to Homelessness (PATH) to request community help to launder the sleeping bags they collected from the festival site. The aim is to wash and dry the bags so they can be handed out to homeless people. The public response to the PATH appeal has been fantastic.

Lockerbie (Scottish Gaelic: Locarbaidh) is a town in southwestern Scotland. The town has been in existence since the time of Viking influence in the period around 900AD. This part of southwest Scotland, including the ancient Gaelic Kingdom of Galloway, had increasingly fallen under Norse-Gael control during the 9th to 13th centuries. Sadly, the town came to international attention on 21 December 1988 after Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following the awful terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight.

Brick to the Past, is a team specialising in historically-themed Lego models, Using about 35,000 pieces they have built a model of Dùn Deardail Celtic Iron Age hillfort in Scotland. It was commissioned by the Fort William-based Nevis Landscape Partnership. It was built by Dan Harris of Brick the Pastand over a period of nearly seven months. Once built it had to be disassembled into smaller sections, in order that could be then re-assembled Glen Nevis Visitor Centre.over the course of four hours. 

Fitting snugly into a knapsack, this new publication encapsulates the memory of a short-lived 3ft gauge railway line which served the expanding Knockaloe Internment Camp, situated on the west coast during World War I.

Acting as a spur from the main line in Peel, it became a veritable work horse for the burgeoning camp which eventually housed a population of approximately 26,000 internees and guards.

Kernow

6 Mys Gwynngala 2018

With the news that another house developer in Cornwall has gone through (Nova Construction) and that a Parish Council at Crantock is now taking Cornwall Council to judicial review over the imposition of additional houses that they do not want, you have to feel sorry for the people at the bottom of this disastrous 'food chain', notably the house buyers. 

Many have come to Cornwall as part of their dream and that dream is fast becoming a nightmare for more and more. 

Today I was like William Wordsworth after doing my bit for the Irish Red Cross - ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ - so to speak into Douglas for a little retail therapy and then drifted back to Peel via a call up West Baldwin to see if things were really so bad in the reservoir as ‘Popeye’ and the MUA are predicting.

Trevor Cowin is still banging on about leachate disposal into what the government euphemistically call ‘a closed sewer’ system. Anyway good for Trevor! (Link):

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=42693&headline=Leachate%20inves...

The Scots Gaelic Tongue has persisted in spite of the blow dealt by the vicious Education Act of 1872 that forbade the use of Scots Gaelic in the classroom.  This most recent strengthening of Gaelic Medium primary education ensures that the language will continue its recover from the persecution of the British government, typified by the Education Act of 1872.

I am perusing the Manx news courtesy of ‘the boys and girls on the Head’ online service. Paul Moulton of MTTV would love it it’s kind of ‘social media for adults’ without the nastiness.

As reverberations in Mann continue over the cancellation of Rally IOM and calls are made for Ministerial resignations, in Wales things are gearing up for the rally to be held there next month.

This striking video was recently posted on the ‘Wales Rally GB’ twitter feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-EtezV3hKM

Image: On the slate mountain zip Snowdonia.

Twitter link:

https://twitter.com/WalesRallyGB

Bernard Moffatt