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Detained Submariner Reply: Disturbing Report on Military Detention Facilities

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The Celtic League has received a reply to the query we sent to the Minister for Defence about Belfast born submariner Able Seaman William McNeilly. The reply was forwarded by the Royal Navy Command HQ Portsmouth.

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Mann: DHA Face Pitfalls on the Road to Police Privatisation

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The Celtic League has started to receive feedback on our queries about the Police Consultation launched in the Isle of Man so called ‘civilianisation’.

Meanwhile we understand one of the areas that DHA may see as ripe for outsourcing is control and administration of the custody suite. It is understandably an area that if ‘civilianised’ at face value could free up more Police Officers for front line duties.

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More Pressing Danger as Gulls Get a Bad Press

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David Cameron MP: ‘don’t you just love him’! As we revealed recently the ‘Toryboy’ PM has had to make an embarrassing u-turn over his support for a cull of seagulls. Although he did confess that he had no love for the birds because one ‘had once taken the ham out of his sandwich’ (see link to our story):

Sea Gulls: Whatever Next on Cameron’s Hit List!

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Beyond the Tamar a Bridge Too Far!

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As concern grows that the new regime in London may consider constituencies which span the River Tamar Kernow branch activists warn that’s ‘a bridge too far’ (see below):

“The following communication has been forwarded to all six of Cornwall’s MPs, to the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Boundary Commission, the United Nations and Council of Europe and to the press in Cornwall.

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Rwanda: Securing The Records of This Sorry Episode

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Almost twenty years ago the Isle of Man found itself involved in allegations of arms trading by companies registered here in Africa .

It would not be the first time such allegations were found to have substance and sadly it would not be the last.

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Sea Gulls: Whatever Next on Cameron’s Hit List!

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Manx Police: Outsourcing a Step Too Far?

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‘Years ago a government led by Miles Walker, wisely eschewed leading the Isle of Man down the Thatcher path to privatisation. Let us hope Messrs Bell and Watterson resist any temptation to follow Cameron’s “Police Privatisation road” today’

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Belle participation au premier concours Pikett’ pour les écoles de Bretagne

« Dans sa volonté de valoriser le patrimoine de Bretagne et de sensibiliser les jeunes bretons à leur patrimoine, la Confédération Kendalc’h a lancé, avec l’aide du Conseil régional de Bretagne, la mallette pédagogique La Famille Pikett’.

A fossilised skeleton of a theropod dinosaur has been discovered on a beach near Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan and has been donated to Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum Wales). The discovery was made by Nick and Rob Hanigan from Llantwit Major who were fossil hunting along the Lavernock beach in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales after storms in spring 2014. The dinosaur was a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus Rex and lived at the early part of the Jurassic Period 201 million years ago.

The Isle of Man Post Office has come up smelling of roses with the release of a special rose scented stamp to mark the centenary of the Isle of Man WI Federation.

This unusual set of six stamps depicts a selection of images, ranging from members of the current Isle of Man WI Chapter to some of the organisation's most famous campaigns during the past hundred years.