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Saint Piran’s Day is celebrated each year on 5th March as the national day of Cornwall.

Saint Piran, or ‘Perran’ as he is also known, is famed for his mythical discovery of the precious metal tin.

Saint Piran is the patron saint of tin-miners and Saint Piran’s Day was originally observed as a ‘tinner’s holiday’ by the numerous tin-miners of Cornwall.

Whilst other Cornish saints have been feted as ‘the patron saint of Cornwall’, Saint Piran is most commonly associated with this accolade and the flag of Saint Piran is now also recognised as the Cornish flag.

We have received the following response from Natural England about the upset caused by that unelected Quasi-NGO on the Lizard where their response to the removal of a bench placed there by a local person in memory of her late husband many years ago was unacceptable and resulted in emotional hurt to the bench donor, Mrs Prince. Mrs Prince even offered to pay to put right the damage caused by Natural England and to have a new seat installed.

Most will have heard that Carbis Bay has been chosen as the venue for the G7 Summit to be held from 11th - 13th June 2021.

The Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental organization consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The heads of government of the member states, as well as the representatives of the European Union, meet at the annual G7 Summit.

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31 Mis Kevardhu 2020

Whilst we accept that direct action taken by some of our youngsters who draped a banner over a bridge in an attempt to protect Cornwall from the influx of rule ignoring visitors earlier in 2020 may have been rather futile, and after all, we were all young once and had little or no confidence in the 'democratic' system, an exercise conducted to reveal the underhand tactics by some tourist companies has shown one up for being what they truly are!

The Breton flag Gwenn Ha Du (GHD) will be raised on the Nantes town hall after many years of campaigning by Breton patriots.

Brittany Réunie's long fight since 2014 has paid off and is finally concrete, with the set up of the Breton GHD flag at the city hall of Nantes, Thursday, December 17, 2020.

This set-up of the Breton GHD flag is a great step forward for reunification, due to this symbolic act, and after the city of Nantes and Nantes Métropole.

At a 'virtual' meeting of Camborne Town Council in Kernow, MK's Ryan Congdon was co-opted onto the Council.

Ryan is a passionate Cornishman and we know that he will be a fantastic representative for Camborne.

He grew up in the town, went to Camborne School and secured a degree in politics from the University of Plymouth.

How to mix an awful cocktail......

A few mixed messages from Cornwall's privatised tourist promotion company 'Visit Cornwall...a little right wing London press coverage...a slice of Anglo centric self entitled bigotry and the result?......more misery for Cornwall and her people

28 Mys Hedra 2020

A why agas oll wheg  

A warm welcome

to all those folks who have recently joined our group. Please continue to monitor our various social media sites for news and updates on a wide range of issues which are of interest to Cornwall and her people and indeed to Cornish people around the globe. During the lockdown, our social media was receiving in excess of one million 'hits' weekly!

Half Term Food Help in Kernow

With the already slack planning laws set to be loosened even more by the distant and increasingly dysfunctional Westminster Government, more and more are now standing up and speaking out against the uncaring government's ludicrous proposals.

Cornwall Council has already voted to take a stand against the Westminster Government although not unexpectedly Conservative members of the council refused to support the decision.

We thank 'Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg' and 'The National' for coordinating the following information:

"The rural housing crisis is threatening our future, claim activists from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man and Cornwall who have united in a cross-border plea over the survival of Celtic languages.

In an appeal aimed at authorities in each of those countries and territories, culture groups say housing market pressures and public policy is putting their languages at stake.

These include Scots Gaelic, Irish, Welsh, Manx and Cornish.