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Cornish rights, culture, economy and community. Bard of Gorsedh Kernow /|\ Views my own 〓〓 Claire and I wrote this: https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/c30m0joh/the-cornish-a-uk-national-minority-web.pdf

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Gool Oll Sens Lowen | Happy Feast of All Saints. Kernow is the Celtic ‘Land of Saints’ with well over 100 venerated here including:

Adwen Brioc Constantine Dewi Endelienta Feock Gennys Hydroc Ia Julitta Kea Ladoca Morwenna Non Perran Ruan Samson Tudy Uny Veep Winwaloe

01.11.2025 08:01 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Levant Mine Disaster | Read all about Cornwall's history and culture with Cornwall For Ever! Find out more about this remarkable place and its people.

A disaster at Levant Mine near St Just killed 31 men on this day in 1919. The Man Engine - a form of mechanical ladder which brought miners to the surface - broke and plunged down the shaft with many men still on it.

www.cornwallforever.co.uk/history/the-...

20.10.2025 07:15 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Dear all -

I’d be very grateful if you could do this and share it.

I know many of you are Bylines readers… and this is s big community build. So please take a little time - and get some big love from all of us at Bylines Network.

THANK YOU!!!

15.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 187    🔁 175    💬 4    📌 0

@noahlawmp.bsky.social @perranmoonmp.bsky.social @benmaguiremp.bsky.social @annagelderdmp.bsky.social @jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social

15.10.2025 06:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cornwall and Isles of Scilly facing child poverty 'crisis' Public health officials issue an "urgent" call for action to help some 27,000 children in poverty.

Child poverty is a 'crisis that cannot be ignored'

It is also inexcusable in the world’s sixth largest economy. If central government hasn’t found a solution these past 50 years, power must be devolved to address this travesty

www.bbc.com/news/article...

15.10.2025 06:10 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Cornwall coastguards rescue six people cut off by tide Falmouth Coastguards said teams across Cornwall had been called out multiple times this weekend.

Coastguards rescue six people “in Cornwall” cut off by tide.

There are many sound reasons why Cornwall should be disaggregated from BBC News coverage of ‘the south west’ - high amongst them is a woeful ignorance of the area - Woolacombe is in Devon.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

06.10.2025 06:40 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Dy'Sul lowen dhewgh oll!
Fatel owgh hwi?
Ottomma lyvrow yeth kernewek pur bosek. Res yw dhyn moy!

(Happy Sunday to you all!
How are you?
Here are very important Cornish language books. We need more!)

#kernewek #kernow #cornish #vornwall #langsky

05.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

I did! Drog yw genev!

04.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gool Mighal Lowen | Happy Feast of St Michael 🗡️ 〓〓

29.09.2025 06:21 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Cornish rural deprivation 'misunderstood' warns new report New research says current deprivation measurements don't take into account rural difficulties.

‘One size fits all’ disadvantaging Cornwall. Again.

Policies (or indices) designed by the centre and applied from the centre fail Cornwall time and again. Devolve now! 〓〓

@jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social @perranmoonmp.bsky.social

Rural poverty 'hidden behind scenic views' www.bbc.com/news/article...

26.09.2025 06:22 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏

25.09.2025 21:49 — 👍 753    🔁 276    💬 17    📌 11
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Nine years have passed in the blink of an eye. Miss you. Always.

25.09.2025 12:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

please stop and think of the hogs

24.09.2025 18:48 — 👍 100    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 2
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Today is the Feast of St Cadoc - a Cymraes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 who established chapels in Breizh ➕ Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿and Padstow parish, Kernow 〓〓 His ‘Life’, written in the early Norman period, mentions King Arthur 🗡️👑 Also the Feast of St Finbar - an Éireannach - venerated at Fowey 🇮🇪

25.09.2025 06:54 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Peace to all the nations of Earth

21.09.2025 17:39 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like not like

21.09.2025 12:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The people of today’s Cornwall were trading tin with the people of today’s Palestine (Levant) some 4,000 years ago. Such trade with the eastern Mediterranean continued into the sixth century CE - with unprecedented amounts of pottery once holding wine and oil found at Tintagel #Palestine

21.09.2025 12:02 — 👍 39    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1
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@jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social is right. Let’s continue to fight for the funding, powers, recognition and respect Kernow deserves from the UK Government, and not simply argue our case from within the paradigm of an ‘English’ Devolution Bill. Would Wales? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Would Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

21.09.2025 10:25 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cornish clung on as living language beyond Dolly Pentreath, says writer Author of new book suggests Kernewek continued to be spoken in the 19th century, albeit in ‘tiny numbers’

Yn hwir!!!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

15.09.2025 16:05 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC Radio Cornwall - BBC Radio Cornwall, Bumper breeding season for Cornish Choughs Julie Skentelbery has been finding out more from Paul St Pierre from the RSPB.

It’s amazing what we can do in Cornwall when we intervene to create the right conditions for traditional inhabitants to live and thrive.

Cornish families next?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

07.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Bird charity choughed as numbers increase The number of Cornish chough chicks has surpassed 100 for the third year running.

Cornwall’s national bird (like its national identity) is on the rise - not that the BBC (England, county) would ever see it that way.

Bird charities 'choughed' as numbers increase again www.bbc.com/news/article...

04.09.2025 07:19 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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MP declares he is Cornish, not English, and urges others to be ‘loud and proud’ Cornish people should be “loud and proud” of their identity, a Labour MP has said, as he told the Commons he is not English. Perran Moon said he had been “mocked” for describing himself as Cornish, as...

www.ireland-live.ie/news/uk/1884...

03.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Cornish MP Perran Moon stands up in Parliament and declares “I am Cornish, not English”

03.09.2025 07:03 — 👍 29    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 5

Cornish Labour MP Perran Moon:

"I'm first and foremost a Cornishman. My party is very, very important to me, but the prime minister made very clear in the run-up to the election that it was Party first, country second. My country is Cornwall"

#KernowFirst

www.itv.com/news/westcou...

02.09.2025 17:26 — 👍 22    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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Rose of Nevada review – uncanny ghost ship story from one-of-a-kind Cornish auteur A vanished trawler returns in Mark Jenkin’s time-slipping film, an enigmatic drama steeped in loss, memory and the unsettling rhythms of coastal life

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

31.08.2025 07:56 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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On this day in 1644, the Cornish Royalist Army defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Lostwithiel. It would be the heaviest Parliamentarian defeat of the entire Civil War, with thousands taken prisoner, and thousands more chased out of Cornwall by an angry populace.

31.08.2025 06:08 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Cornish MPs have called on Historic England to ensure that its Cornish sites reflect Cornwall’s national history and status.

They say Cornwall’s heritage is not “a subset of English history”.

Even better would be to call for all Cornish heritage sites to be run from Cornwall.

18.08.2025 11:40 — 👍 26    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
Petition: Grant Cornwall nation status We urge the UK Government to formally recognize Cornwall as a nation, granting it equal status to Wales and Scotland. This includes devolved powers, cultural preservation, and official recognition of Cornwall’s distinct heritage, language, and historic autonomy.

Keep sharing! Approaching 20,000 signatures 〓〓

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

27.08.2025 07:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Illuminated - Into the West - BBC Sounds Horatio Clare goes in search of the bird he’s loved since childhood: the red-billed chough

Palores! | Chough!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

24.08.2025 06:41 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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