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Writing in his Scottish blog (link below) Scottish commentator Paul Kavanagh referenced the recent agreement on the BBC Charter and bemoaned the lack of a true National broadcaster in Scotland. He points out that countries with a much smaller population indeed tiny populations have National TV and Radio services:

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In addition to all his other skills like pocketing his monthly cheque and dining at our expense not to mention off loading that gas bill on to the long suffering Manx tax payer it seems that constitutional oddity Sir Richard Gozney is something of a time traveller!

The Government website records in amongst all the other sycophantic bull that Sir Richard Gozney WAS sworn in on May 27th 2016.

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It is a sobering thought that even before mankind understands the full diversity of the worlds oceans many unrecorded species will be wiped out.

We have highlighted the damage being wrought by industrial fishing by super trawlers and this prompted one commentator to ask what the high profile environmental groups like Greenpeace are doing. Well the answer is a lot but this is a global problem and it is really International actions by governments that are needed.

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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.

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We can report that one year after what was described as a historic International ruling to curb the activities of the so called monster trawlers from devastating fish stocks and displacing the livelihood of indigenous communities the EU has still not acted to implant the judgements.

News From BZH New York:

News From BreizhEire:

Demat d'an holl/ bonjour à tous / 

dia dhaoibh uilig / Hi everybody, 

Dear Friends, Breton and Brittany lovers, 

REDADEG 2016 IN BRITTANY

It is a run where runners pass on the baton at every kilometres for 1700 kms, 8 days and through 300 towns. This represents the passing of the breton language. The funds that are collected will be used to fund Diwañ schools projects and other projects related to Breton (creches with breton immersion, plays, films, libraries, publications...). 

News From Breizh Amerika:

Breizh Amerika and the Interceltique Festival of Lorient

It's official! Breizh Amerika and Interceltique Festival of Lorient are partners !!!

News From The Celtic League:

It’s quite obvious from the reaction that we have had that a lot of people take exception to having to fund the wages, household not to mention the food and drinks bill of the Lt Governor.

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Even as the fishing community were sitting down yesterday evening in Burtonport, Donegal, to see a premiere showing of the film ‘Atlantic’ made by Irish documentary film maker Risteard Ó Domhnaill the problem the film highlights was being exacerbated.

In the film, which focuses on not just Ireland but also Norway and Newfoundland, Irish fishermen speak about the dearth of fishing stocks caused by the rapacious activities of factory trawlers of their coast.