It is less than two weeks to the tenth anniversary of the recognition of the Cornish as a “national minority” by the UK Government and Mebyon Kernow will be holding an event on Saturday 20th April, at which party members will issue a challenge to central government to deliver on its promises from 2014. Speaking about the event, MK leader Cllr Dick Cole has said: “Recognition was a landmark decision with Westminster promising that the Cornish would be afforded the “same…

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Everyone in Mebyon Kernow is saddened to hear of the death of Ann Trevenen Jenkin, who was the last-surviving member of the twenty-strong group who met at the Oates Temperance Hotel in Redruth, on 6th January 1951, to found our party. She has also been MK’s Honorary President for the last two decades An absolute giant of the Cornish cultural scene, she was active within a large number of cultural and language groups, becoming the first female Grand Bard of Gorsedh…

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