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UNCRC Asked to Press UK on Armed Forces Recruitment of Children

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The Celtic League has raised the issue of the recruitment of children below the age of 18 years by the British Armed Forces with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The UK has in the past been criticised for this policy. The League say the policy may also breach International Labour Conventions on the employment of Children.

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DEFINITELY NO OVERFLIGHT BY RUSSIANS SAY MOD

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence are insisting Russian Aircraft which transited around the west of the British Isles recently before did not overfly southern Cornwall despite media claim to the contrary. The statement comes in response to a Celtic League Cornwall branch enquiry. Statement from Convenor set out below:

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NUCLEAR FIRE SHIP REPORT TO BE PUBLISHED SOON SAY DANISH EMBASSY

The Danish Ambassador has responded to a query from the Celtic League about the incident when the Danish vessel, MV Parida, caught fire and was disabled and drifting off N E Scotland. The vessel was carrying nuclear waste from the Dounreay nuclear plant.

The League had asked when the report into the incident (being compiled by Danish authorities) would be made available and if this would be in English.

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MANX POLITICS: THE COUP THAT NEVER WAS?

It was less ‘the night of the long knives’ and more ‘the day of the blunt pens’.

A government Minister has moved swiftly to deny a newspaper article that he and colleagues were conspiring against the Isle of Man Chief Minister and planning a vote of no confidence.

The newspaper meanwhile, in the persona of its Editor, has rejected the denial standing by its article and defending the journalist who wrote it.

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ICELANDS PRESIDENT: INDEPENDENCE CAN NEVER BE NEGATIVE

“the small size of a nation is not an obstacle to its success”. It’s a point those who carp on about the Isle of Man being too small to be independent might wish to ponder.

We rarely simply link to an article but in this instance it is worth it (see below).

The President of Iceland Ólafur Grímsson, has said “independence in itself can never be negative”.

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CHARLES HYPOCRISY CHALLENGED BY KERNOW BRANCH

Members of the Cornwall Branch of the Celtic League and followers in the Duchy, were incensed to read a recent article in the Independent Newspaper - ‘Prince warns of planet in crisis’ Independent The News Matrix: Thursday 26 February 2015.

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KERNOW: NEW FRAMEWORK POWERS USED TO SEEK MINORITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT FROM BBC

The Celtic League’s Kernow branch is campaigning hard to give practical effect to the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities recently extended by the UK to include Cornwall . This from Michael Chappell:

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MANX BUDGET: NO PLAN B NO PLAN AT ALL!

It is not a case of ‘there’s no plan B’ it seems there is no plan at all.

When the Isle of Man budget was unveiled last week the Celtic League were bitingly critical of some aspects of it not least the vagary surrounding a new higher (£14000) tax threshold to be (possibly) introduced next year but of more immediate concern was the decision to claw-back tax credit (Personal Allowance Credit – PAC) and phase it out completely next year.

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MANNIN BRANCH: FACEBOOK AND TWITTER SITES LAUNCHED

The Mannin branch of the Celtic League (CL) are now on Facebook and Twitter joining a ‘plethora’ of other CL branches, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and our overseas colleagues in Patagonia. I have set out most of the links below including one for the Cornish branch CL shop where you can purchase a variety of goods with the CL logo.

Our main site will of course continue to be:

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CR GAS POSITIVE RESPONSE FROM IRISH GOVERNMENT TO OUR QUERY

The Irish government has responded positively to a query from the Celtic League about the long running controversy over the alleged use of CR Gas during a protest at Long Kesh prison in the early 1970s.