Gwythian Stand Up Paddle Board Charity Marathon
Yellow Wire Support the Mercury Phoenix Trust
On September 2nd Yellow Wire are taking part in a charity Stand Up Paddle Board Marathon (SUP). The band will start at Sunset Surf Café, Gwythian and travel across the bay to Porthmeor St Ives before going back across to Godrevy Island and returning to the café for a celebration and live show. The 15 miles are expected to take a minimum of 8 hours to complete!
Yellow Wire will be joined by some of the sports biggest UK Paddleboard names and are calling on people taking part to come dressed as Freddie Mercury to help raise money and awareness for the Mercury Phoenix Trust http://www.mercuryphoenixtrust.com
Yellow Wire’s front man Ol Beach is son of Jim Beach, who has been the manager of legendary rock band Queen since 1978 and The Mercury Phoenix Trust (founded by Jim) has been a cause close to their heart for many years, it’s now one of the leading charities in the battle against AIDS worldwide.
Yellow Wire release their debut single ‘Where Is The Summer’ on August 23rd through Universal Records and play the o2 Islington Academy on August 26th
Keep Cornwall Whole
Driving back across the Tamar Bridge into Cornwall, no ordinary border.
The government want to make constituency sizes more equal which is a reasonable idea in general. However this process will ignore all historical borders, feelings of community etc, which could mean parts of Cornwall being split off and joined with parts of Devon for seats.
Keep Cornwall Whole is a campaign set up by Adam Killeya, Mayor of Saltash, in response to the threat of parts of Cornwall, possibly including Saltash, being split off and joined with parts of Devon for parliamentary purposes.
This campaign is supported by a range of people from across Cornwall and indeed Devon: some are Cornish, some are not. Some are politically active (for a range of parties) and some are not. Some believe in home-rule for Cornwall and some do not.
Keep Cornwall Whole want to alert people to this potential threat and encourage them to get involved in arguing that Cornwall should remain whole.
The Cornish border has a long history. “King Athelstan (925-940AD) set out on an expedition against the Britons of Cornwall.
“In the end the Britons of Cornwall were compelled to accept the river Tamar as their boundary”. (‘Anglo-Saxon England’ by F.M. Stenton F.B.A., Professor of Modern History in the University of Reading, Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1947, page 337).
Newquay Fish Festival 2010
Newquay Fish Festival is a three day event, dates for this year are 10-12th September. For a full list of events, check out the programme on the Newquay Fish Festival site here
“Proper job” Newquay Fish Festival 2009 here
The Anglo-Cornish War of June-August 1549
Commotion Time:
The Anglo-Cornish War of June-August 1549
Craig Weatherhill
PART ONE
Prelude to War
Make no mistake. 1549, the blackest year in Cornish history, should not be minimized as merely a “Prayer Book Rebellion”, as is the trend of mainstream histories. It was nothing less than all-out war, instigated by injustice and fuelled by outrage, but most books say little about it and, sadly, our schoolchildren are told even less.
Only 41 years earlier, King Henry VI’s Charter of Pardon restored the Cornish Stannary Parliament he had suspended in 1497 and granted it powerful rights that remain law to this day. The most significant of these was the right of veto over any Act or Statute of the London-based Parliament. It took just four decades for London to trample all over these rights by forcibly imposing its new State Religion and the English language upon the Cornish people by way of the Act of Uniformity sculpted by the real powers in the realm – Thomas Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector to a sickly 10-year old king; and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. After marching upon England twice in 1497, there was only one way that the Cornish were going to react to this.
Cawsand & Kingsand
Tucked away on Torpoint East Cornwall are the pretty Cornish fishing villages of Cawsand & Kingsand. See more photos here
Cawsand…
Looking towards Kingsand. See more photos here
