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Glasgow artist Ken Currie's work, called "A Scottish Triptych: Nightshift, Departure, Saturdays", which depicts Glasgow in the 1980s, was sold this week for a record-breaking £100,000 at an auction in Edinburgh. Bonhams stated that it was a new world record for the artist having surpassed the previous figure of £31,000 set at the auctioneers in 2002.

News from Kernow Matters To Us:

1 Mys Kevardhu 2016

Final Chance to Say NO to Devonwall!

On 5th December, 2016, the unelected quango, the Boundaries Commission will stop taking public views on Devonwall.

Between now and then is YOUR last chance to join hundreds of others, including Town and Parish Councils, campaign groups, Cornwall Councillors and many other members of the public who have objected to this gerrymandering of Cornwall's 1,100 year old border.

Please take this opportunity to register your disapproval!

News from the Celtic League:

Another death at Maghaberry just days after CPT respond to our rgent action request:

Just six days after the Council of Europe prisons inspection body the CPT responded to our concerns over deaths at Maghaberry Prison another death has occurred (link):

http://www.irishnews.com/…/third-prisoner-death-at-maghabe…/

News from the Celtic League:

The CDN web site has this story about the discovery of rare ancient coins with a Manx link in Co Down:

"Brian Morton, (43), did not immediately realise the significance of his discovery on farmland near Newcastle in Co Down but was convinced he had struck upon something special in May.

"I didn't know what they were at the time. But through time I got to know they were two extremely rare Hibernian-Manx coins.

"I was quite excited to say the least," he said.

News from the Celtic League:

The Welsh Government should enter into formal talks with the Irish State and secure an agreement that would create a ‘Celtic Sea Alliance’ and secure future European investment, according to Plaid Cymru’s External Affairs spokesperson, Steffan Lewis AM.

In today's Irish Times, Ruadhán Mac Cormaic Foreign Affairs Correspondent, reports on the story of Nadia Murad a member of the Yazidi community. She tells of when in early August 2014, Islamic State gunmen arrived in the village of Kocho, near Sinjar in northern Iraq. Nadia Murad tells of the horrific events that unfolded under the evil rule of Islamic State also known as Isis.

A very rare map that was found stuffed up a chimney during a house renovation in the Scottish city of Aberdeen has been saved. The item was in extremely poor condition and appeared to be a little more than a bundle of rags when discovered. However, the finder suspected it might be something special and gave it to the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh to investigate. Conservation experts set to work in a painstaking and delicate restoration process in what they have described as one of the most complex ever conservation tasks they have undertaken.

Welsh wildlife campaigners have welcomed the Scottish government announcement last week that the Eurasian beaver is to be formally recognised as a native species, four centuries after being hunted to extinction in Scotland. Lead partners in the Scottish Beaver Trial, the Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) hailed the decision as a major success story for conservation.

It seems that there is little else left to say about the incompetence of the Scottish Labour Party. This is the Party that lost 40 of the 41 seats they held in Scotland in the 2015 United Kingdom general election. The Scottish National Party (SNP) won all but three seats in Scotland in a remarkable landslide during that election. Since then Scottish Labour has stumbled from one crises to another. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2016 it lost a third of its seats, dropping from 37 to 24.

Tourism Ireland have reported that Ireland’s tourism sector enjoyed a record year in 2016. Latest estimates show that 10.5 million people will have visited Ireland by the end of 2016, an increase of 11% on 2015. It takes annual tourism-related revenues to a total of €5.4 billion. Projections suggest the figure is likely to increase further in 2017. Tourism Ireland has stated its intention to target audiences in North America and mainland Europe with marketing campaigns next year.