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Kernow: Thomas Flamank Commemoration

‘Speak the truth, and only then can you be free of your chains.’ (Thomas Flamank)

Members of the Kernow Branch of the Celtic League bearing the Celtic League flag were warmly welcomed by Androw Hawke of the Cornish Nationalist Party (CNP), the Mayor of Bodmin, Cllr. Lance Kennedy and other Councillors, the Reverend Canon Graham Minors and Bards of Gorseth Kernow at the annual Thomas Flamank Commemoration in Bodmin on Saturday 27th June, 2015.

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FRANCE RESPECT FOR CULTURAL VALUES - NOT ALWAYS!

The visit to Mann of a strong French media group from both TV and print media ahead of the Inter Celtic festival in Lorient seems to indicate that at least superficially France is more at ease with its minority cultures. Although unlike the other large Celtic countries which have TV language stations such as TG4, S4C and BBC Alba the TV presence sent from Brittany to Mann was provided by TR3 as Brittany still has no dedicated TV language channel

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MANX GOVERNMENT VALUE OUR CULTURE – IT WAS NOT ALWAYS SO!

Another release arrives from Culture Vannin about the coming joint effort by Mann with Cornwall in fielding a major presence at the Lorient festival in Brittany . The release refers to a visit to Mann by ‘French’ media to get some background ahead of the event.

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MEP IN SCATHING ATTACK ON LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION

Speaking from in Brussels this week Sinn Fein MEP, Liadh Ní Riada, has launched one of the strongest criticisms of the Spanish State ’s ongoing discrimination and attacks against users of indigenous and minority languages made by an external parliamentarian for some time.

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POLICE CIVILIANISATION RESPONSE FROM HMIC

The Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales, Tom Winsor, has responded to our query re police civilianisation sent in the wake of a document seeking views on same from the Isle of Man DHA (see link):

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TAOISEACH RESPONDS ON KINGSMILL FILES

The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, has said he will honour a promise (made to relatives of those who died in the Kingsmill massacre in N. Ireland in January 1976) that Garda files on the attack will be released to a Coroner in Belfast currently conducting an inquest into the events. Indeed his Office indicates the process has already begun.

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CORNWALL : BRANCH ACTIVE ON SEVERAL FRONTS

Kernow branch are piling on the pressure in relation to local planning matters and broader concerns about protecting the community and economy (see below):

1) CONCERN WIDENS AMONG CORNISH CITIZENS

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KERNOW: BRANCH SEEK TO CLARIFY PUBLIC ANXIETIES OVER PLANNING

With developer led urbanisation of Cornwall much in the public eye in the Duchy and with increased anxieties over the sustainability of such planning and the damage it inflicts, the Kernow Branch has been actively seeking to clarify many issues.

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PATAGONIA : LOST WELSH ANTHEM FOUND AFTER 140 YEARS!

A long forgotten text of the Welsh National anthem has been rediscovered in the archives of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

The anthem was apparently written over 140 years ago for settlers planning to move to the Welsh community established in Patagonia in Argentina, now the Chubut Province of that country, and its text reflects the slightly different nature of the new land to which emigrants were going.

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SCOTLAND : MILITARY EXERCISE KILLED SCHOOL OF WHALES

In 2008 we highlighted the environmental damage the British Military had caused at Cape Wrath in Northern Scotland . At that time fires in the coastal area used for military exercises caused by live firing of munitions got out of control and caused over 400 acres of environmentally sensitive heath land to be damaged the MOD themselves admitted that the damaged area would take some years to regenerate. (see link)