| 词条 | Cornish Solidarity |
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It produced "Cornwall First", a newsletter published every two months which is free to members.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} HistoryIn February 1998, campaigners against the closure of South Crofty, the last hard rock and tin mine in Cornwall, blocked the A30 trunk road into Cornwall using a twenty-car slow-moving convoy.[1][2] The organisation grew from this protest, and demanded Objective One regional funding for Cornwall, an exclusively-Cornish European Parliament constituency, a Cornish university, support for Cornwall's traditional industries and local control over Cornwall's health service; these demands were broadly similar to those being made at the time by Mebyon Kernow, a Cornish nationalist party that had recently relaunched itself. Cornish Solidarity was consolidated as a pressure group after the closure of South Crofty, the last hard rock mine in Cornwall, in March 1998.[1] Greg Woods was elected the organisation's chairman.[2] In March 1998, hundreds of Cornish Solidarity campaigners staged a protest on the Tamar Bridge. A convoy of protesters, many waving black and white Saint Piran's flags from their vehicles, drove to the bridge, and used pennies to pay the £1 toll to enter Devon at Plymouth; Woods claimed that "that's all we've got left to pay with in Cornwall".[1][2] In July 1998, Cornish Solidarity staged its last major protest, in which over 1,000 protestors blocked the Tamar Bridge.[1] Since achieving many of its aims, Cornish Solidarity has undertaken a self-imposed hibernation vowing to return to fight any attempt to attack or alter Cornwall's ethnic diversity, boundaries or constitutional status.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} LegacyCornwall was granted Objective One status in March 1999.[1] In 1998, Cornwall was recognised by the UK government as having "distinct cultural and historical factors reflecting a Celtic background",[3] thus allowing it to be separated in a regional and economic sense from Devon. See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{Cite book|title=Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism|last=Deacon|first=Bernard|last2=Cole|first2=Dick|last3=Tregidga|first3=Garry|publisher=Welsh Academic Press|year=2003|isbn=1860570755|location=Wales|pages=99-101|authorlink1=Bernard Deacon|authorlink2=Dick Cole (politician)|authorlink3=Garry Tregidga}} 2. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/65538.stm|title=BBC News {{!}} UK {{!}} Cornwall demands economic help|last=|first=|date=14 March 1998|website=news.bbc.co.uk|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=19 September 2018}} 3. ^[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo981022/debtext/81022-23.htm Hansard 1998 - Cornwall has distinct cultural and historical factors reflecting a Celtic background] External links
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