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Report here on Manx Radio about the delayed Manx Gas report. Leader of the Manx Gas protest group Barry Murphy cannot contain his anger and disappointment with government over this issue which has seen people enduring another winter of outlandish charges:

https://www.manxradio.com/…/delay-of-manx-gas-report-unacc…/

As the merits or otherwise of providing homes in Mann for a handful of refugees from Syria those living in the makeshift camps of Lebanon are facing one of the harshest winters ever experienced.

As this report from Ahram Online says refugees are burning clothes and plastic to keep warm:

Report here over a controversy between Egypt and the National Museum of Scotland over a casting stone purportedly said to come from the Great Pyramid of Giza. However a renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass disputes this

Scotland wants to keep the artefact although the circumstances of its legal removal from the original site are murky.

The National Museum of Scotland is falling back on the ‘if we didn’t take it it might have been lost’ argument.

Report here from BBC (Isle of Man) on the call by Tynwald member Bill Henderson MLC for the return of the Chronicles of Man and the Isles currently held by the British Library:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-46724338

Bernard Moffatt

Assistant General Secretary
Celtic League

Stonehaven (Scottish Gaelic: Cala na Creige) is coastal town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It had grew around an Iron Age fishing village and lies in the shelter of Stonehaven Bay. It is an area of historical significance with evidence of prehistoric  structures at Fetteresso Castle, Neolithic pottery found after excavations in the Spurryhillock area and a number of Iron Age ring cairns. Ring cairns are mysterious structure, thought to have been used for a number reasons, including for ceremonial purposes and having an astronomic function purpose.

Stonehaven (Scottish Gaelic: Cala na Creige) is coastal town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It had grew around an Iron Age fishing village and lies in the shelter of Stonehaven Bay. It is an area of historical significance with evidence of prehistoric  structures at Fetteresso Castle, Neolithic pottery found after excavations in the Spurryhillock area and a number of Iron Age ring cairns. Ring cairns are mysterious structure, thought to have been used for a number reasons, including for ceremonial purposes and having an astronomic function purpose.

Cornish Tick Box - Census 2021

A very warm welcome to all our new members.

As you will doubtless be aware, there is a growing campaign calling for the inclusion of a Cornish 'tick box' in the 2021 census return form.

New Quay (Welsh: Cei Newydd) is a Welsh seaside town in Ceredigion and lies on the Ceredigion Coast Path. The town's lifeboat volunteers rescued a sheep and a dog after separate incidents when the animals fell from cliffs on  New Year's Eve. The Audrey LJ inshore lifeboat was launched in the early afternoon after Murray the dog had fallen 50ft (15m) from the cliffs when walking on the coastal path with his owners. The crew found and rescued the dog, who had sustained a broken leg, from a small cove.

There are fifteen inhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides also known as the Western Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Siar), off the west coast of mainland Scotland. Most celebtared the New Year on January 1st, except for one. Berneray (Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh na Hearadh) in the Sound of Harris (Caolas na Hearadh), sticks to the tradition of Oidhche Challain, the Old New Year, which is celebrated on January 12th. This is in line with the former Highland tradition of following the Julian Calendar, which was subsequently replaced by the Gregorian calendar.

Woodland Trust Scotland is trying to raise £1.6m so that they can buy the 534m (1,752ft) tall Ben Shiedaig mountain in the north-west Highlands of Scotland, after it was put up for sale by a private landowner. Woodland Trust Scotland Director Carol Evans said: "This is a rare opportunity for us to bring a whole mountain under our care." If successful in their bid the Trust plans to manage its spectacular native woodland within a wider mix of wild habitats that climbs from the sea to the summit.