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The Neolithic chambered cairn of Maeshowe is situated on the island of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.  Of the many chambered cairns in Orkney, Maeshowe stands out as the most impressive. Thought to date from about 2800 BC the 5000 year old tomb forms part of the UNESCO Heart of Neolithic Orkney, which also includes Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar and Standing Stones of Stenness.  

News from Kernow Matters To Us:

A painting found in a storeroom of Swansea Musuem (Welsh: Amgueddfa Abertawe) has turned out to be a 17th Century Flemish masterpiece worth about £3m. Thought to have been owned by the Museum for about 150 years it had been catalogued as the work of an unknown artist. Now it has been dated to between 1619 and 1622 and identified as the work of Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678). The painting is a preparatory oil study for Atalanta & Meleager, which now hangs in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

The once lost marble bust of Scottish Highland laird and MP Sir John Gordon is to be exhibited at the Louvre in Paris and the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Created in 1728 by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, one of the 18th century’s most fashionable sculptors, it is now estimated to be worth about £1.4m.

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It is with great sorrow that we record that Eddie Forbes Climo passed away last Saturday. Eddie, christened Hedley after his father, was the first son of Hedley Climo of Bodmin and Isobel (Sybil) of Thurso in Scotland. Eddie taught himself Welsh while studying in Wales and later on Scottish Gaelic. Later in life he went on to teach himself Cornish. It was obvious from some of his publications that he knew something of other languages.

He had two sons, Seoras and Charlie, who for a while were raised bilingually with Gaelic.

News From Kernow Matters To Us:

The campaign against the unlawful imposition of a cross-border Westminster parliamentary constituency on Cornwall continues.

Please may we invite you to write to your elected representatives expressing your opposition to this outrage.

The Welsh Language Society have long been calling for the abolition of the concept of “Welsh as a Second Language” pushing the alternative of every pupil being given the opportunity to be educated in the medium of both Welsh and English. The notion of Welsh medium education enjoys wide support amongst the electorate in Wales.

News from Celtic League:

There are concerns for the well being of several Scottish Merchant navy officer cadets stranded at sea off Singapore after the Shipping firm they had a placement with went into receivership.

The four cadets from Clyde Marine Training were on a placement with South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping line as part of their City of Glasgow College course when the company ran into financial difficulities.

News from Mannin Branch Celtic League:

A new children's book by writer Barbara Henderson in her debut novel, Fir for Luck, is set during the dreadful time in Scottish history known as the Highland Clearances. The book is inspired by real events that took place in Strathnaver in Sutherland where women and children attempted to resist actions to clear their community. It tells of a 12-year-old girl who takes a stand against the threatened clearance of her village in 1841.