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Campaigners Fight To Save Ancient Woodland In Anglesey

Submitted by Mair Williams on August 30, 2015 - 1:48pm

Campaigners are fighting a desperate battle to save restored ancient woodland and a known red squirrel habitat in Anglesey (Welsh: Ynys Môn), which is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. A planning application for a Llangefni link road will be considered by Anglesey Council planners on Wednesday, September 2.

Coed Cadw, the Woodland Trust, has objected to the link road and have said:

Redruth International Mining and Pasty Festival 2015

Submitted by Myghal Map Serpren on August 29, 2015 - 5:43pm

Redruth International Mining and Pasty Festival

The old Cornish mining town of Redruth in Cornwall once again celebrates its ever popular Mining and Pasty Festival with celebrations taking place from Friday 11th September until Sunday 13th September, 2015.

The Mining and Pasty Festival is a three day event celebrating the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Redruth through pasties, mining and music.  The event is focussed around the town centre and is completely free to attend.

Friday 11th, which is Miners’ Day, sees Murdoch House opened, the home of the Scottish engineer and inventor William Murdoch (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) with themed displays touching on Redruth’s close links with Real del Monte in Mexico where many Cornish miners made their home in search of mining work and with research material made available by the Cornish Global Migration Project.

Kresen Kernow - The Cornish Studies Centre is hosting events staged by the Trevithick Society highlighting the industrial trailblazers of Redruth and including a tour of the new multi million pound Cornish National Library and Archive Centre development currently under construction whilst the town centre will be alive with music and tales from the past including one of a miner who auctioned off his wife and emigrated!

Grow The Workforce What About ‘Growing Their Rights’?

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on August 29, 2015 - 12:48am

News from Mannin Branch Celtic League

The Chamber of Commerce were recently waxing lyrical about the need for the Island to grow its workforce with as many as 15000 extra workers needed according to them. However you can bet your bottom dollar the Chamber will not be insisting appropriate rights be afforded for those workers to organise themselves in Trade Unions.

'Landmark Agreement'! You're a Tax Haven Says US

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on August 29, 2015 - 12:30am

News from the Celtic League

What was described as ‘a landmark agreement on sharing tax information was signed on Friday 13 December 2013 by the Isle of Man and the United States.

The Isle of Man Chief Minister Allan Bell and Matthew Burzan, US Ambassador to the UK at the US Embassy in London signed the agreement on behalf of their respective countries.

At the time Allan Bell, the Isle of Man Chief Minister, said:

Notice Regarding The Cornish Which We Ask To Be Shared

Submitted by Mair Williams on August 28, 2015 - 8:26pm

News From Kernow Branch Celtic League

It is indeed sad to see on other Facebook sites including that of BBC Radio Cornwall, comments such as 'You are English, get over it' 'You should be grateful to the English' and so on often made in the most aggressive of tones.

The fact of the matter is that the Cornish people have now been recognised, are no better nor worse than anyone else including the English but are not English.

The official Government announcement is here:

Population Growth on Isle of Man: Time To Step Up The Opposition

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on August 28, 2015 - 8:15pm

News From The Celtic League

The Manx Chief Minister has said that the Island does not need an expansion in population but an increased workforce taken with recent comments by the Infrastructure Minister it seems to be a change of tack from the previous announcement about freeing up land for ‘development and growth’.

It also seems to contradict statements from the Chamber of Commerce about the need for another 15,000 workers. That number together with families would involve a seismic increase in the population.

Invisible Man About To Disappear - Now Time To Scrap Ridiculous Institution of Lieutenant Governor of The Isle of Man

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on August 28, 2015 - 7:55pm

Adam Wood is about to finish his term as  Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Many Manx people would be forgiven for not having a clue who he is. Certainly he has been rarely seen out in public since he took the position in 2011. The Lieutenant Governor is the representative of the British monarch, who acts as the Manx head of state. The Isle of Man is an internally self-governing Crown Dependency. In reality the Lieutenant Governor represents the interests of a foreign power, the United Kingdom, in its colonial possession the Isle of Man (Mannin).

Isle of Man: Snaefell Mountain Railway Anniversary

Submitted by Valerie Caine on August 26, 2015 - 6:32pm

Despite the unfavourable weather conditions which plagued the one hundred and twentieth anniversary celebrations of the Snaefell Mountain Railway, many people made a pilgrimage to the summit for this special occasion.

Proceedings got under way at Laxey Tram Station with a performance by members of the National Methodist Youth Brass Band, who were on an extensive tour of the Island.

Battle of Crogen - Welsh Victory Against English Invaders Remembered

Submitted by Mair Williams on August 26, 2015 - 10:52am

August 2015 has seen a number of commemorations and the unveiling of a plaque to mark the 850th anniversary of the Battle of Crogen that took place in the Ceiriog Valley (Welsh: Dyffryn Ceiriogin) in north-east Wales. The Welsh in 1165 faced a determined Henry II of England who brought his full resources in order to conquer Wales once and for all.

Scottish Town Of Wick Cuts Ties To Faroe Islands In Protest At Disgusting Slaughter Of Whales And Dolphins

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on August 22, 2015 - 11:08pm

Civic leaders in a Scottish town have made a stand on the cruel slaughter of Whales in the Faroe Islands. Wick (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Ùige) in the far north of Scotland has cut all ties with its twin community in a row over the islands’ annual slaughter of whales. The Wick councillors received representations from constituents who feared the slaying last month of 250 pilot whales on the beaches of Bøur and Tórshavn, would damage Wick’s reputation as it is twinned with the Faroese town of  Klaksvík.

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