Month: May 2018

Campaign groups are expressing concern that deaths in prison are not being investigated ‘quickly or rigorously enough’ according to a report for BBC Cymru this week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-44072973 The claims have been rebutted by the Acting Probation and Prisons Ombudsman (PPO) but one MP

Within weeks of being elected President Emmanuel Macron was being lowered onto a French Navy ballistic missile submarine ‘Le Terrible’ of the coast of Brittany. Its reported he was present on the vessel when it dived and simulated a missile launch. Macron ‘a

NATO’s military exercise ‘Joint Warrior’ held last month over a two week period appears to have passed off without incident although in the past the exercises have provoked protests from fishermen and environmentalists. Joint Warrior exercise are usually held twice yearly however this

A former British soldier is to stand trial following a killing in the North of Ireland forty years ago. A court bid aimed at stopping the prosecution of a former British soldier has been rejected, amid a political controversy over whether other veterans

I saw this item recently on Manx Radio and was struck by the reference to Aeglagh Vannin established by Mona Douglas being set up to inspire a generation of ‘cultural’ nationalists: https://www.manxradio.com/…/appeal-to-retrieve-aeglagh-van…/ I’m not sure if the term ‘cultural nationalist’ was coined by

The petition against the renaming of the second Severn Crossing to the Prince of Wales Bridge is one of the biggest in the history of  Welsh politics, with approaching 40,000 signatures. An opinion poll now also discredits Westminster Government’s Welsh Secretary, Alun Cairns

The Belfast Telegraph has an intriguing story today: “It has all the elements of a Spielberg movie: a Nazi museum director, possible spies and world-leading experts from Harvard University in a quest for skulls and artefacts. Yet, this is no Hollywood creation, but