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A protest march across Penwith Moors saw hundreds of people express their concern at the proposals to fence off the area and
allow cattle to graze alongside many ancient monuments. Picture by Ted Motler.
EVERYTHING THAT IS Cornish is under threat as
The
never before – our identity, heritage, culture, rights and
even our way of life.
A dramatic opening statement to be sure, yet an
alarmingly true one. Now we can add to that list of
endangered items our unique and most iconic
theft of
landscapes. The chief culprit in the majority of
case’s remote officialdom which is now facing
concerted opposition.
The rot has been setting in for years with the media
insisting on calling Cornwall a ‘county’ in spite of a Royal
Cornish
Commission recommending the term ‘Duchy’ be used.
The Devonwall syndrome, which tied us in with our
Anglo-Saxon neighbour led to the oft-used phrase
Devon-and-Cornwall (as though we merely rate as an
afterthought) and, in turn, led to the current and artificially
culture
defined ‘South West Region’. Cornwall’s unique identity
gets buried deeper and deeper as time passes.
We were recently told that Cornwall must accept
the building of 70,000 new houses on its precious soil.
The entity dictating this potential disaster is the totally
Craig Weatherhill reports on how our
unelected South West Regional Assembly which is
spending your hard-earned money and making
Celtic heritage is being snatched away. decisions that seriously affect us all. Cornish residents
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