Merv v Ken

The Grand Bard of Cornwall has the BBC's Ken Macquarrie in his sights.

Telynyor an Weryn, otherwise known as Merv Davey and sometimes Dr Folk, addressed fellow Bards at the Gorsedh Kernow, in its 90th anniverary year, on clifftops outside Newquay earlier this month.

"Radio Cornwall is exemplary in its work for the Cornish community but once beyond the Tamar commitment to Cornwall tapers dramatically. Gorsedh Kernow invited Ken MacQuarrie, BBC Director of Nations & Regions to attend the Gorsedh Kernow Conference to speak on proposals to create a designated service for Cornwall, such as an i-Player platform, as it does for the other UK
nations. We received no response from Mr MacQuarrie or from the BBC. Gorsedh Kernow calls upon the BBC to acknowledge the UK Government’s recognition of the Cornish as a National Minority alongside of the Welsh and Scots and deliver a designated service to us. We also call upon the secretary of State for Media, Culture and sport to take this matter up and on our Cornish  MPs to champion it. To the Trustees of the BBC we say this exclusion of Cornwall is unjust."