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Driving Licence Flag War Spreads

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

We highlighted last year in Celtic News the controversy the Westminster government had caused by insisting that the Union Flag would be displayed on all new driving licences issued in England, Scotland and Wales.

David Cameron well assuming the Scots and Welsh would roll-over sensibly stopped short of imposing this latest piece of imperialist jingoism on the North of Ireland.

The first reaction was in Scotland where stick-over Saltire flags were applied despite threats from the DVLA. Now things are spreading!

Leanne Wood - Rebel With A Cause

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It is not often we simply link to an article but the story in Friday’s WalesOnline about Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood’s, and her early life is well worth a read.

It is to be hoped that Leanne can do for Plaid Cymru’s fortunes in Wales what Nicola Sturgeon has managed to achieve in Scotland.

Obviously given her background - brought up in a family that was struggling in a Labour heartland in Wales she should naturally have gravitated to the Labour Party however as she says:

Cameron Gets Blast Of Fire from The Welsh Dragon!

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The Welsh Assembly have just given David Cameron a kick ‘where it hurts’ by voting to block the UK government’s trade union bill in Wales.

Assembly members said it would undermine public services, the economy and the “constructive social partnership” between workers and employers in Wales.

Instead of heeding the Welsh Assembly’s decision, the UK government is ignoring it and has said the bill will continue its progress through the Westminster parliament.

New Dinosuar Named In Honour Of Welsh National Symbol

Having now been fully analysed, scientists have confirmed that remains of a new dog sized predator belong to a new dinosaur species. The bones were found in South Wales encased in sedimentary rock dating back 200 million years to the beginning of the Jurassic period. Drawing on the national symbol of Wales, Y Ddraig Goch (The Red Dragon), the new species has been named Dracoraptor hanigani. A name which also reflects fossil hunters Nick and Rob Hanigan who found the remains. The skeleton is now on display at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff (Amgueddfa Cymru).

The 100th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland - the Cornish connection.

News From Kernow Matters To You

Easter 2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin and massive celebrations are set to occur in Ireland as this marked the defining moment in Ireland's struggles for independence.

Events here: http://www.visitdublin.com/see-do/details/easter-rising-centenary/510660/#53.349805|-6.260310|16

Daily Express withdraw offensive anti-Cornish postings

News From 'Kernow Matters To Us'

Following a written, formal complaint made by 'Kernow Matters to Us' (KMTU) Team to the Editorial Team of the Daily Express in London, which concerned offensive and racist postings made by some members of public written beneath an article on the Cornish language, the offensive postings have been withdrawn in their entirety and the posters banned.

In making the complaint, KMTU informed the Daily Express that offensive remarks made about Cornish people would not be tolerated and that a zero tolerance policy had been adopted.

Mebyon Kernow Call For 2016 To Be The Year Of Cornish Recognition

In 2014 the long overdue designation of the Cornish people as a national minority in Britain under the Council of Europe's "Framework Convention on National Minorities" was announced. Mebyon Kernow - The Party for Cornwall at its first Party Executive meeting of 2016 has demanded action to give substance to this recognition. 

“Yes, Cornwall is a separate feudal authority, ie kingdom.”

News From Kernow Matters To You:

So says Kevin Cahill, FRSA who is an author and investigative journalist, living in Devon, England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a full professional Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a House of Lords scholar and researcher with no Cornish nationalist axe to grind.

Kevin Cahill: "The Second Domesday" (2013).

Best Wishes From Patagonia

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

I see the most distant branch of the Celtic League in the Welsh speaking area of Argentine (Patagonia) have posted a neat card sending New Years greeting to all in tri-lingual form, Welsh, Spanish and English!

Patagonia Facebook link here:

https://www.facebook.com/Patagonia-Celtic-League-469180103…/

BERNARD MOFFATT

Issued by: The Celtic News

30/12/15

THE CELTIC LEAGUE INFORMATION SERVICE.

Epynt: Death Of A Community

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

There was understandably a big media focus on the destruction of the Welsh speaking community in the Tryweryn Valley to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the flooding of the valley to provide a reservoir for Liverpool. (see links):

https://www.celticleague.net/…/cymru-destruction-of-capel-…/

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