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Proceedings began two hours late after lawyers for the detainees said they needed time to acquaint themselves with the files Few of the immigrants turned up. More that 30 were freed on Saturday after a different court refused to extend detention from 24 hours to six days, saying the applications were faulty or unjustified. And when he was a teenager, Christianity was mainly characterised by a series of “don’ts”.But he told the crowd that Britain was now going too far the other way and it was time for some traditional modern boundaries to be re-drawn.”At present we live in a society where sometimes the only thing that cannot be tolerated is to say that something is wrong,” said Dr Carey.”We have to say there are moral standards, both personal and corporate.”He added: “Too often people are encouraged to think no further than their own private world …”We are now seeing the consequences of a privatised, DIY morality working itself out in many aspects of our society.”This applies also to our Church. Four years ago, hundreds of school children responded to a request for volunteers to learn the disappearing language and now classes are offered in every school.. Britain was suffering from the consequences of a “privatised, DIY morality”, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday. Dr George Carey said sometimes in modern Britain the only thing that could not be tolerated was to say that something was wrong.
He made his call for the re-establishment of moral guidelines to a congregation of about 20,000 at Britain’s biggest Christian arts festival.Dr Carey was speaking at the 23rd annual Greenbelt Festival, this year being staged near Corby, Northamptonshire.And his message was applauded enthusiastically by a gathering of mainly young people, dressed in T-shirts and jeans.The Archbishop told the crowd that he had last attended the festival 17 or 18 years ago when he had camped out with his family.He said at that time the main theme of the festival was radical Christianity, and that theme still continued.Dr Carey said to be radical went to the roots of the Christian faith.

In the Scottish Highlands there is a resurgence of interest in the Scots Gaelic dialect, much of it fuelled by the enthusiasm for all things Celtic brought by a recent influx of English families to the area.
The number of Gaelic-medium schools has grown from two to 50 in the past 10 years, while the number of Gaelic-medium play-groups has jumped from four in 1982 to a current high of 142.Programmes financed by the Gaelic Television Fund have attracted audiences of 500,000.The Celtic dialects are divided into two linguistic groups. Irish, Scots and Manx Gaelic form the Goidellic group, while Welsh, Breton and the Cornish dialect, Kernow, make up the Brythonic group.Kernow is perhaps the smallest of these, in terms of the number of speakers, but its advocates have claimed it is the fastest-growing. There are broadcasts in Kernow, dictionaries are written and it is taught in schools.Manx is a mixture of “pure” Irish Gaelic and its Scots offshoot but it uses English orthography. There is a Celtic revival that stretches from John o’Groats to Land’s End and beyond. Learning Welsh has, she said, proved a “plus at work and play”..

This proved to be the case in Myddfai, a village at the foot of the Black Mountain, when Mrs Jordan, 33, took part in a tricky community council meeting. “It was a challenge to my Welsh, but the outcome was successful and it boosted my confidence,” she said.The daughter of a diplomat – her father Kenneth East was British Ambassador to Iceland – her move to Wales brought the opportunity and challenge of becoming bilingual. When Isabel Jordan joined the Brecon Beacons National Park as community development officer a year ago, she spoke no Welsh. Today her command of the language enables her to cope happily as she visits villagers in an area where Welsh is the usual means of communication.
The park’s management encourages staff to learn the language and to attend evening classes and intensive weekend instruction. Mrs Jordan said: “The time spent learning Welsh is invaluable.”Her job entails liaising with communities, spread around 519 square miles of mid-Wales, to improve their quality of life. Only 30,000 people live in the park – 8,000 in Brecon, the “capital” of the Beacons.Community groups, including Women’s Institutes, young farmers’ clubs and parent-teacher associations, as well as 50 statutory community councils, call on Mrs Jordan’s expertise. “We help to refurbish village halls, raise funds for community events and help to get environment projects up and running,” Mrs Jordan said.