Communities Department Respond on Affordable Housing

August 15, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The United Kingdom Department of Communities and Local Government have responded to our recent query about the crisis over affordable housing in Cornwall. A copy of the full text of their response is set out below: “12th August

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MI5 – They’re All Heart! They Even Run a Charity

July 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Our report on the Intelligence Commissioners Report (IC) earlier this week in which we expressed some scepticism about how open to control and scrutiny the British Security Services are may have to be revised. The IC had written,

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CPT Respond on Nuclear Police but HMIC Still Evasive

April 7, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has responded to a letter from the Celtic League. In the correspondence the League had asked if the CPT would include the

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May Turns Her Back on Child Abuse in Intelligence House of Horrors

March 16, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE It was dubbed the ‘House of horrors” where children were abused whilst the authorities looked the other way. The Kincora boy’s home in Belfast was the scene of serious organised sex abuse of children in the 1970s. It

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EU Commissioner Urged to Press UK Over Traveller Discrimination

March 13, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has written to the European Justice Commissioner, Věra Jourová, urging her to support concerns raised by the Celtic League over discrimination suffered by the Traveller community in the United Kingdom. A recent letter to UK

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Travellers: Pickles Urged Not to Heed Pressure For More Discrimination

March 8, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE In its most recent report on the United Kingdom the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in 2009) raised particular concern about the plight of Roma/Gypsies and Irish Travellers. The Rights Body said: “31: The

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UK Government Respond on Nuclear Waste Ship Fire

February 22, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The United Kingdom government (via its Maritime and Coastguard Agency) has responded to a query from the Celtic League about the fire on a Danish ship, the MV Parida, which was transporting nuclear waste from Dounreay in Scotland

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UK Minister: Trident Nuclear Deterrent Needed

February 5, 2015

UK Minister: “The possibility that a major direct nuclear threat to the UK might re-emerge” News from Celtic league The UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Farming, Food and the Marine Environment has written in response to a letter sent to him

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League Condemn Irish British Military Training Agreement

January 18, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League expresses its grave concern over a military training agreement to be signed between United Kingdom and Irish Ministers later this month. The Celtic League are well aware of the high reputation and integrity that Irish

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DECC Quizzed on Safety of Nuclear Fire Ship

January 6, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has asked the United Kingdom Department of the Environment and Climate Change about safety systems on a ship carrying nuclear waste which caught fire off Scotland in October. See below: “Baroness Verma Parliamentary Under Secretary

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