Beach Ices at Praa Sands
Ice meeting the sand at the base of the low cliff behind Praa Sands Beach, West Cornwall. 6th January 2009....
Icicles at Trewellard Bottoms
Water seeping through a wall is turned to icicles, ate Trewellard Bottoms, where Geevor Mine meets the sea....
Winter Sunset at Levant
A late afternoon scene, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall. 7th January 2009....
Winter at Levant
The old electricity generator building, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall, during the recent cold snap. 7th Jnauary 2009....
How long have MK been around? Effin years. They have their format and they stick to it. They have been around for years as the 'potential' party for Cornwall; and that seems to have stuck. They are the 'potential' party for Cornwall.
I am now a long term emmit. Yet in all the time I've lived in Cornwall I've never come across MK. Apart from the fact that I've took a genuine interest in Conwall's affairs; combined with the fact that I spend a lot of time on the internet researching interests of a Cornish nature, I would not, after nearly seven years, otherwise have know anything about them.
I like their policies, I like their objectives, I like their ideals..
But they've never got in my face; they've never knocked my door at election time; I've never received a single piece of their paper from them, and I've never read much about them in the local newspapers that's made me flinch one bit..
They are great! But they are not. If that makes any sense..
And, congratulations too, to TGG for a very well presented critique of the UK government's shambolic and insulting draft 2nd UK FCPNM Compliance Report.
Yes you have, after I emailed them to let them know we had placed a link to their site on TINC and yes agree, they are good people with good policies albeit running along side an English system.
Being Cornish has nothing whatsoever to do with one's physical appearance - I should know since my husband's family is from Kingston, Jamaica and he now regards himself emphatically Cornish.
I recall an observation he made to me one evening watching the TV news when the reporter referred to a 'Black' man who had been accused of a crime in London as being "British". My husband remarked that such a 'black' person, facing sucn an accusation, would never ever be described by the news reader as being "English".
So, it seems that some Cornish people do not look like English people in general, people who are never described in anything other than white terms.
Totally disagree with you hen! I would not be in the slightest bothered by such an insignificant perception discrepancy. The Visual difference between Cornish people and English people is totally irrelevant compared to the difference in how they are treated within international law. That is the true difference, and that is what's important to me.
I would have thought you'd be more aware of that, considering the time you've spent on this forum.
This observational difference is exactly the point I was making between Pakkis and Indians. I treat Asian people the same regardless of whether they come from India or Pakistan. People are people. How they are treated is what matters.
Pakki is usually used in the UK as derogatory. Pakistani is OK and accurate provided that it is their national origin.
There's never been an English tick box on a census form. There's been "White British", as if skin colour is an ethnicity
Whereabouts in the 'Pool? Not only was I there as a student in the 80's - a political education in itself - but much of my family background also is from within a few miles of the Mersey.
I think yous (second person plural in Scouse dialect :wink: ) have been too harsh on FLB.
I left school in the late 70's when the 'career moves' were an option between 'signing on' or 'moving away'.. I chose moving away. I do believe it's a much better place now thanks to 'Objection One' funding. Though the Liverpudlians did actually receive the funding to do with as they wished, rather than it go, in the first instance, to a North West Regional Assembly type body.
Either way Fish, they don't go through the same confusion as the Cornish do when having to choose between 'white British' and 'other'.
Rise in county's road death toll
The number of people who have died on Cornwall's roads rises in the last year to 35, police say.
Film con man ordered to pay £100K
The man who swindled almost £2m in a film studio scam is ordered to forfeit £100,000 by a judge.
Triplets survive against the odds
A woman from Cornwall who gave birth to triplets 14 weeks early describes their survival as a "miracle".
Call for inquiry into fire centre
Fire chiefs demand a public inquiry into the delayed opening of the regional fire control centre.
Prison sentence for benefit cheat
A man who admitted swindling more than £51,000 in benefits over a six-year period is jailed for 18 months.
Divers face trial over shipwreck
Three Cornish divers accused of plundering a shipwreck off the coast of Spain are to be tried in a Spanish court.
‘NO’ TO NUCLEAR WASTE IN CORNWALL - MPs
Proposals to bring nuclear waste to Cornwall have been described as ‘absurd and irresponsible’ by Cornish MPs.
Route Partnership Plan for Penzance unnecessary
Their plan having been rejected by the public in the final exhibition in Septmber with 90% against the Route Partnership have decided to try again in mid January after a mailout and poster campaign.The Chamber of Commerce has been at the forefront of this campaign.
