Abstract

Cornwall is facing many problems, economic and social with associated threats to her integrity and unique cultural heritage. Cornwall – unlike Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – has no special status within the United Kingdom and is regarded as a county within the English system of local government and thus subject to the system's increasingly centralised controls. In this system Cornwall is regarded as a unit within an imposed region that comprises all counties of the south-western peninsula, with no recognition of her Celtic status and traditions despite a belated formal acknowledgement of the Cornish language.

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