Definitely No Overflight by Russians Say MOD

February 28, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE 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

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Nuclear Fire Ship Report to be Published Soon Say Danish Embassy

February 28, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE 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

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Manx Politics: The Coup That Never Was?

February 27, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE 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

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Iceland’s President: Independence Can Never Be Negative

February 26, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE “…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

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Charles Hypocrisy Challenged By Kernow Branch

February 26, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE 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

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Kernow: New Framework Powers Used to Seek Minority Impact Assessment from BBC

February 26, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE 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: “The Cornwall Branch of

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Manx Budget: No Plan B No Plan at All!

February 26, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE 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

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Mannin Branch: Facebook and Twitter Sites Launched

February 26, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE 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

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Tesco use of Cornish Language

February 26, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE TESCO USE OF CORNISH LANGUAGE Michael Chappell reports that Tesco in Cornwall are now using Kernewek – the Cornish language and also flying Cornwall National Flag. This latest progress for the language comes on the back of an

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CR Gas Positive Response From Irish Government to Our Query

February 26, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE 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. It was

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