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Dr Alasdair Allan, Scotland’s Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages attended an event in Stornoway Town Hall in Scotland’s Western Isles to inaugurate a program for the granting of Professional Graduate Diploma in Education for teachers at the secondary level.

The Stornoway Gazette, reporting on Dr. Allan’s visit described the launch of a secondary level teaching certificate for Gaelic medium instruction as follows: “The course is transformational as it provides a bridge between Gaelic Medium Primary Education and Gaelic University and College courses.”

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The BIC: Founded on a Lie Doing Nothing and Going Nowhere

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

I do not need to restate our opposition to the British Irish Council (BIC) the Celtic League set out its objections to the body within months of the BI being founded.

I feel sure the Celtic League will confirm its disdain for the concept at its forthcoming AGM in Dublin.

However it is in place and we (the taxpayers) are all paying for it – at a time when incomes and services are stretched as never before – so what is it doing?

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Range of Cornish Resolutions Scheduled for Dublin Meeting

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

The Kernow branch of the Celtic League has a range of resolutions scheduled for consideration at the CL AGM in Dublin in April.

The six resolutions range over policy and constitutional matters and include consideration of domestic issues and also support for their Brythonic kinsmen in Breizh and Cymru.

An additional resolution focuses on the commitments given by the UK to Scotland during the referendum.

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Decolonisation on the Agenda for AGM

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Decolonisation will be on the agenda for the 2015 Celtic League AGM to be held at the Conradh na Gaeilge HQ in Dublin in April.

A draft resolution will be moved calling on the UN Committee on decolonisation to redouble its efforts to ensure that all the remaining territories and dependencies of the old colonial powers such as France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are advanced to full independence in a set time frame.

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Crime Spree in North Wales Matches Manx Experience

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CRIME SPREE IN NORTH WALES MATCHES MANX EXPERIENCE

As the Isle of Man is shaken out of its relatively crime free idyll by a sustained series of what appear to be organised and coordinated burglaries a similar crime spree is ongoing in one of our close neighbours Wales.

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Nuclear Transport Fire Sparks AGM Resolution

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This years Celtic League AGM to be held in Dublin in April will be asked to approve a resolution tightening up International regulations surrounding the shipment of nuclear waste by sea.

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Two Resolutions for AGM Against British-Irish Military Pact

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The strength of hostility to the British-Irish military agreement signed in January of this year will be evident at the Annual General Meeting of the Celtic League due to be held in Dublin in April.

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Man: Senior Cops Clueless as Island Crime Wave Continues

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Often government agencies and the police get accused of gerrymandering statistics but it is not often they can be accused of not issuing them at all!

However that’s the ludicrous position the Isle of Man Constabulary have adopted in relation to the spate of burglaries which have beset the Island in recent months.

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RAF Hawk Training in Focus After Near Misses

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Courtesy of a report on BBC Wales’s website we see that the RAF Hawk trainer is making the news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-31695537

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UNCRC Acknowledge Reports from League

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UN CRC ACKNOWLEDGE REPORTS FROM LEAGUE

The Committee on the Rights of the Child has responded to recent submissions by the Celtic League in relation to:

1) Armed Forces recruitment of Children – United Kingdom

2) Arrests of Children – Ireland.

The text of their response is set out below:

“Dear Mr. Moffatt,

We kindly apologies for our late reply and thank for your report.