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Cascade Dance Theatre is a Cardiff based repertory touring company. In Wales, their work is focused on the Creu Cymru dance touring network that reaches across the whole of the country in venues as disparate as Theatr Taliesin in Swansea, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Blackwood Miners Institute and Neuadd Dwyfor in Pwllheli. This month the company is presenting an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece FRANKENSTEIN in venues across Wales.

“The Flow Country”  is a large area, of peatland and wetland in Caithness and Sutherland in northern Scotland. It covers about 1540 square miles (4000 km2). It is the largest expanse of blanket bog in Europe. Blanket bog only forms in cool places with plenty of rain. The blanketing of the ground with a variable depth of peat gives the habitat type its name. The few plants that can grow here don’t rot away, but build up to form deep layers of peat.

Isle of Man Post Office (Manx: Oik Postagh Ellan Vannin) has released a Christmas issue of stamps to celebrate eighty years of Beano, the world's longest-running comic. The Christmas story sees Dennis, Gnasher and friends on various locations on the Isle of Man raising a laugh and causing mischief. The children's comic the Beano is celebrating its 80th birthday and is published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938.

Hartes Ease is a group of Manx musicians who give regular concerts throughout the Island. Their performances include mainly renaissance music for recorders, viols and voice. Following successful Christmas concerts in recent years Hartes Ease will give another concert at 8.00pm on Sunday 6 January 2019 at Holy Trinity Church, Patrick, Isle of Man. Money raised will go towards the Isle of Man local charity www.Knockaloe.im. 

The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating sightings of bright lights and UFO's seen over the coast of south-west Ireland. They were reported by a number of pilots of commercial aircraft while in contact with Shannon Air Traffic Control last Friday. A British Airways pilot spotted bright lights moving past her plane. The fast moving, very bright object was seen to disappear at very high speed. Air traffic control confirmed to the pilot that there was no military exercises taking place in the area at the time.

Immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, a General Election was announced in the so-called United Kingdom. On 14 November it was announced that Parliament would dissolve on 25 November, with elections on 14 December. The Irish General Election of 1918 was that part of the 1918 general election which took place in Ireland. In 1918 the whole of Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and was represented in the British Parliament by 105 MPs. It is was significant moment in modern Irish history.

Kernow Football Alliance sidesteps FIFA and England Football Team and joins Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA)

The best efforts of FIFA and the England Football Team to prevent a Cornwall football team playing internationally have been thwarted with the Kernow Football Alliance now securing membership of CONIFA.

The Confederation of Independent Football Associations is a global umbrella organization for national teams not under the auspices of FIFA – representing nations, minorities, isolated dependencies or cultural regions.

Written on the cliffs of Cornwall's north coast during September, 1914, 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."

Plaques at Polzeath between Pentire Point and The Rumps and at Portreath.

You are invited to a book launch!

The Promontory People - An Early History of the Cornish - by Craig Weatherhill

FREE - 3pm to 4.30pm - Saturday 8th December, 2018

RED RIVER CAFE, HEARTLANDS, POOL, REDRUTH, TR15 3QY

Press Release on New Manx Language Colouring Book:

Cool Mann, the new colouring book from award-winning illustrator and Bloomsbury author Jo Davies, is now published.