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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Queen's birthday
yesterday was a good day to release bad news!<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-36104716">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-36104716</a><br>
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The wider political context of this, indicated in the article, is
devolution of funding towards local authorities in the UK, under
the Localism Act 2011:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localism_Act_2011">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localism_Act_2011</a>. This draws
decision-making power over such things away from central govt and
towards local govt.<br>
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There's also a public petition to parliament to reverse the
decision:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/128474">https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/128474</a><br>
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This is a somewhat shaky moment for funding to be withdrawn, given
the significant changes underway to the institutional structure of
the Cornish language revival, discussed towards the end of (ahem)
my latest article</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.academia.edu/13099456/">https://www.academia.edu/13099456/</a> </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">(co-authored).</font></font><br>
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Dave<br>
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--<br>
Dr. Dave Sayers<br>
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University |
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.shu.ac.uk">www.shu.ac.uk</a><br>
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD |
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.wiserd.ac.uk">www.wiserd.ac.uk</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a> | <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers">http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers</a><br>
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