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For up-to-date news about Mebyon Kernow, please visit our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220526040747/https://www.facebook.com/MebyonKernow" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a>.</div><div class="standard_section"> <div class="standard_section_header"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/rss_feed.xml"><img src="/web/20220526040747im_/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/images/rss.jpg" alt="RSS News Feed" name="rss_icon" width="35" height="35" id="rss_icon" border="0" align="right"/></a>Latest News</div> <div class="standard_section_content"> <div class="paginated_links"> Page 1 of 36 | <a href="index.php?page=2">Next Page >></a> </div> <div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=396">Neil Plummer</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">Everyone at Mebyon Kernow is extremely saddened to hear of the death of long-standing MK member and passionate Cornishman Neil Plummer. </div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 30th April 2021</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=396"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div><div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=395">Mebyon Kernow announces thirty pledges for local election campaign</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">Mebyon Kernow – the Party for Cornwall has published thirty pledges on behalf of their candidates standing in the Cornwall Council and town & parish council elections.</div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 30th April 2021</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=395"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div><div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=394">List of candidates for 2021 town and parish council elections</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">Mebyon Kernow is pleased to confirm that it has nominated a total of 25 candidates for the upcoming Town and Parish Council Elections. A number have been elected unopposed, as the number of candidates in certain areas was equal to, or fewer than, the number of seats available.</div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 30th April 2021</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=394"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div><div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=393">List of candidates for 2021 Cornwall Council elections</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">Mebyon Kernow is pleased to confirm that it has nominated a total of 19 candidates for the upcoming Cornwall Council elections.</div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 30th April 2021</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=393"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div><div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=392">Cornwall Council votes to oppose Government's planning white paper</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">Cornwall Councillors on voted 22nd September to oppose the Government’s White Paper on Planning, which seeks to introduce the frightening new “standard method for establishing housing requirement figures.” This would change Cornwall’s 20-year housing target from 52,500 to an unbelievably unsustainable 81,000 properties.</div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 19th November 2020</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=392"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div><div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=391">Cornish Nation No.83 Out Now</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">Mebyon Kernow has just published the latest edition of Cornish Nation magazine, which will be sent to MK members this week.</div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 19th November 2020</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=391"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div><div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=390">Our response to planning white paper consultation</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">Mebyon Kernow strongly objects to the “Planning for the Future” White Paper. It is our view that there are already many problems with the existing National Planning Policy Framework, not least because of the “presumption in favour” of development which has led to unchecked and damaging development that local communities have been unable to prevent.</div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 19th November 2020</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=390"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div><div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=389">MPs fail to oppose Devonwall</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">Mebyon Kernow has criticized Cornwall’s six MPs for failing to amend the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill in order to ensure that cross-Tamar “Devonwall” seats are not created in the future.</div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 19th November 2020</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=389"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div><div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=388">Update on Boundries Bill</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">The Public Bill Committee is presently taking evidence in relation to the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill 2019-21 and has commenced line-by-line scrutiny of the proposed legislation. MK Leader Cllr Dick Cole has written to the Committee about Cornwall, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the threat of a cross-Tamar “Devonwall” constituency.</div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 4th July 2020</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=388"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div><div class="news_preview"><div class="news_preview_headline"><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=387">Cornish Nation No.82 available now</a></div><div class="news_preview_text">Mebyon Kernow members receive copies of Cornish Nation magazine three times a year and the latest edition is presently being distributed.</div><div class="news_preview_buttons"><div class="news_preview_date">Published: 4th July 2020</div><a href="/web/20220526040747/https://www.mebyonkernow.org/news/article.php?id=387"><div class="news_preview_button">Read More...</div></a></div></div> <div class="paginated_links"> Page 1 of 36 | <a href="index.php?page=2">Next Page >></a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer">©2022 Mebyon Kernow - The Party for Cornwall. 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