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Living Cornwall Podcast 26

By Matthew | Published: March 15, 2011
It is hoped that a large area in the middle of Camborne, Pool and Redruth will be turned into a park by November. ‘Heartlands’ is a park built around Robinson’s Shaft to make a centre for the World Heritage Site. There will be a hall for displays, a market, a playing place, and offices for social enterprises. Around the shaft will be gardens, lakes and places for children to play.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 24

By Matthew | Published: March 1, 2011
It is great to see our language used more and more across Kernow. I was in Helston last week and I saw a sign for a new housing development named ‘An Henlys’ (the ancient court). There is another in Camborne called Boslowen (happy abode).
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Living Cornwall Podcast 22

By Matthew | Published: February 14, 2011
Sharp’s Brewery has been bought by international drinks group, Molson Coors, for £20 million. The buyers have said that they want to keep the brewery at Rock. It produces 75 thousand barrels a year. There are eighty people working at the brewery, which makes the famous beer – ‘Doom Bar’.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 21

By Matthew | Published: February 8, 2011
Cornwall has chosen the group to go to Ireland this April to the Pan Celtic Song Competion. ‘Green Shoots’ is a group of young girls with a fiddle player and harpist. The lead singer of the group is a girl who is only eight years old.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 20

By Matthew | Published: January 31, 2011
It isn’t always easy to find a Cornish speaker in the street because our language is only spoken by a small number of people still. However, there are events held every year to give beginners and fluent speakers the chance to chat together. There are two Cornish language weekends before too long.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 19

By Matthew | Published: January 25, 2011
A new future for Goonhilly Earth Satellite Station as BT unveils its plans.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 18

By Matthew | Published: January 17, 2011
The podcast this week recounts January's good and bad news at Cornwall (Newquay) Airport.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 17

By Matthew | Published: January 10, 2011
We are all spending more and more for everyday things – and now those things are even dearer because of Value Added Tax. VAT has risen 2.5% at the start of this month. We have to pay 20% now on nearly everything apart from healthy food, water, books, public transport, prescribed medicine and childrens clothes.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 13

By Matthew | Published: December 13, 2010
Councillors at Court Cornwall have supported a budget emergency. Cut it does ten and eight twenty million pounds through the four year to come.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 12

By Matthew | Published: December 7, 2010
Maga (The Cornish Language Partnership) recently held a one day conference in Lostwithiel to give a progress report on reviving the language.
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