5,000 sign petition against government halt to Cornish language funding
A petition against the government's decision to halt all funding for the Cornish language has passed five thousand signatures.
That's half-way to the ten thousand needed for an official response.
The Government had provided up to £150,000 a year to support the language since it was recognised under the Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in 2003.
But they have now withdrawn all money, saying the county can allocated funding where local people feel it should be spent:
In recent years the grant has been used to support the development of the language, including funding a range of educational activities.Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron called the governments decision a "betrayal".