Obsolete Fighter Bomber Crashes In Scotland

January 28, 2011

An RAF Tornado fighter-bomber has crashed whilst on exercise off North-West Scotland. UK Coastguards said they were alerted to an incident involving the aircraft at Loch Ewe, near Gairloch, Wester Ross, at 2.45pm today. The two man crew of the aircraft ejected safely

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Alba: Wallace Letter Joins Celtic Treasures List

January 28, 2011

A group of experts, who have been invited by the Scottish Government to examine the authenticity of a letter that was purportedly in the possession of William Wallace when he was betrayed to the English, have concluded that it is an original. Their

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New Website Highlights Stolen Celtic Treasures

January 28, 2011

A single issue website has been launched to help focus attention on a long term campaign the Celtic League has been running and in response to a resolution passed at their annual general meeting (AGM) in 2010. The aim of the website –

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Leaked Letter Sheds Light on Police Language Row

January 23, 2011

A letter response has been leaked to the Celtic League from a member of staff at Devon and Cornwall Police, who had written in complaint about the removal of the Cornish language signs at Camborne police station last year. The letter – from

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Police Raids A Regular Feature of Basque Life

January 20, 2011

The General Secretary (GS) of the League has received an email from the Basque Country with a detailed account of an armed police raid of yet another Basque home and the detention of a young woman, in what has become an outrageously regular

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Extradition Case Concerns

January 18, 2011

The Celtic League has received reports that a French appeal court has agreed to the extradition of a French woman to Spain for her activity in a political party that is illegal in Spain, but not in France. The decision to extradite the

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Celtic League Review of the Year

January 7, 2011

With the start of a New Year it is useful to reflect on some of the more political developments that have taken place in the Celtic countries over the course of the last twelve months, but more importantly it is essential to look

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League Welcome New Basque Political Party

January 7, 2011

The General Secretary (GS) of the Celtic League has written in support of moves to form a new political party in the Basque Country to represent the Basque nationalist left. Over the last ten years successive Spanish Governments have banned and arrested members

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Manx Government: The Arrogance of Fools

January 5, 2011

The Leader of the Manx Nationalist Party, Mec Vannin, has launched a swingeing attack on Manx government policies in an address to a gathering to commemorate the execution of the Manx Martyr, Illiam Dhone on January 2nd at Hango Hill, Castletown. Speaking in

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Call For Seanad To Be Abolished

January 5, 2011

`democracy..gerrymandered via unelected unelected upper chambers..stuffed with toadies..or apparatchiks of the established parties.’ The Irish Labour Party has called for the Seanad (the unelected `upper house’ of the Irish parliament) to be abolished. The Irish government recently confirmed that it is considering holding

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