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The Manx General Election was held in the Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin) yesterday on 23 September 2021. The election is for members of the 'House of Keys' (MHK’s), which is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald (Manx: Tinvaal), the parliament of the Isle of Man. The Manx-language name of the House of Keys is 'Yn Kiare as Feed' meaning 'The Four and Twenty', as the House has 24 members. Most elected members do not represent a political party and stand as independents.

‘The financial impact of tourism in Cornwall: an assessment’

We are very pleased to enclose a link to a short on line paper prepared by that great Cornish academic, Doctor Bernard Deacon, who has, with others, been taking an objective look at some of the wilder claims made by those who financially benefit from tourism in Cornwall. 

As we all know, these claims are often picked up and run in the mainstream media who accept such assertions without proper investigation.

In 1965 a memorial chapel was built as a memorial to the drowned Welsh speaking village of Capel Celyn. Capel is Welsh for chapel, while celyn is Welsh for holly. The memorial chapel is now reopening after having conservation work undertaken. The work was carried out by Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and began in July 2020. Capel Celyn was located to the north west of Bala in Gwynedd, in the Afon Tryweryn valley in the north of Wales.

It has been reported in the Financial Times on Monday that the much derided idea of building a bridge between the north-east of Ireland and Scotland have been scrapped. The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had promoted the idea which had various estimates of cost varying from a minimum of £15 billion to £33 billion. The feasibility of the controversial idea had also been questioned with warnings about the depth of the Irish Sea and the presence of dumped munitions which would cause problems for any crossing.

In the history of the Earth there have been at least five significant ice ages. Approximately twelve epochs of glacial expansion have occurred in the past one million years. The last ice age known as the Last Glacial Period (LGP) ended about 20,000 years ago. Glaciers extended over much of northern Europe and covered many of what we now call the Celtic nations.

TOM MAZZONE SPRINTS TO SAINT PIRAN'S FIRST UNION CYCLISTE INTERNATIONALE (UCI) VICTORY

It was a big day in northern France as Saint Piran took their first win as a UCI Continental team.

And, coming a week to the day before the start of the Tour of Britain, the timing couldn’t have been better.

Stephen Bradbury, Ross Holland, Steve Lampier, Tom Mazzone, Ollie Maxwell and Jenson Young were among the 106 starters lining up for the 179km UCI (1.2) Grand Prix de la Somme

The Scottish National Party (SNP) and Scottish Greens have published details of their new power sharing agreement. The co-operation arrangement states that the two political parties will work together to provide "effective and responsible leadership for Scotland for this session of the Scottish Parliament, in the interests of Scotland, of the people who live in Scotland, and of future generations".

The Scottish Government have announced an ambitious plan to utilize the state bureaucracy to support Scots Gaelic. Under proposals, every directorate at the government will be involved in increasing the use of Gaelic in the organisation.

Remembering the bloody events of 1549……

A packed St Petroc’s Church, Bodmin on Sunday 15th August, 2021 saw a service commemorating the bloody events of 1549 when thousands of Cornish people were killed or violently put to death by representatives of the English establishment whilst defending their Catholic religious practices, Cornish language and Celtic customs.

The Soviet famine of 1932–33 killed millions of people in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, the Volga Region, Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia were included in the areas heavily impacted by the famine. In the Ukraine it is known as the Holodomor and it has been estimated that over 3 million died, with some suggesting the deaths could stand at over 7 milion. In Kazakhstan it is thought over 600,000 (15% of all Kazakhs) died.