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Presenter Anoushka Williams:ÌýÌýMyttin da! It’s time now for An Nowodhow, the news in Cornish, read for you this week by Steve Penhaligon.

Our first story is about a government grant which is being shared by swimming pools across the country with the aim of improving their energy efficiency.

Five pools in Cornwall will receive money for the installation of solar panels, and the Jubilee Pool in Penzance will get enough to buy some new pool covers.

The Cornish word for ‘a pool’ is ‘poll’, and the word for ‘to swim’ is ‘neuvya’. So ‘a swimming pool’ is ‘poll-neuvya’. Notice how the word order is the opposite of the English. That’s often the case in Cornish!

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Myttin da. Hwegh poll-neuvya a-dreus dhe Gernow a wra degemeres rann a ront dhyworth an governans rag gwellhe aga musurow effeythadewder nerth.

An gront, tri ugens milvil a beunsow y dalvosogeth, a vydh rennys ynter pollow-neuvya oll a-dreus dhe Bow Sows ha Kernow.

Omma yn Kernow, pollow yn Reskammel, Karnbre, Hellys, Ponswad ha Porthia a wra degemeres arghasans rag ynstallya panellow howlek.Ìý Kresen Dermyn Syger Porthia a wra degemeres an brassa gront, kans, hwetek ha dew ugens a vilyow a beunsow y dalvosogeth. Ha Poll Jubile Pennsans a dhegemmer tamm le es deg mil beuns rag kudhlennow nowydh.

Menyster a-barth Sport, Stuart Andrew, a leveris y hwra an skoodhyans nowydh dhyworth an governans ‘surhe may hallo kansow a bollow-neuvya iselhe aga hostow oberyans ha pesya provia servis dhe les a-barth kemenethow a-dreus dhe’n pow’.

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Good morning. Six swimming pools across Cornwall will receive a share of a government grant to improve their energy efficiency measures.

The grant, worth £60 million, will be shared between swimming pools all across England and Cornwall.

Here in Cornwall, pools in Camelford, Carn Brea, Helston, Wadebridge and St Ives will receive funding to install solar panels. St Ives Leisure Centre will receive the biggest grant, worth £156,000. And the Jubilee Pool in Penzance will receive a little less than £10,000 for new covers.Ìý

Minister for Sport, Stuart Andrew, said that the new government support will ‘ensure hundreds of swimming pools can lower their operating costs and continue to provide an important service for communities across the country’.

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Our next story is about a new government-funded project to plant more trees on farmland across Cornwall.

Cornwall Council is organising the work and encouraging farmers to create more woodland, which will lock away more carbon and help nature recover.

So far, 4,000 trees have been planted and it is hoped that by next winter there will be as many as 32,000 new trees on farms all over Cornwall.

One key word to listen out for is the word for ‘tree’. ‘gwedhen’ is one tree and the plural is ‘gwedhennow’. You will hear both in the story. Listen carefully though, because sometimes the ‘g’ isn’t pronounced and you will just hear, ‘wedhen’ and ‘wedhennow’!

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Avel rann a ragdres arghesys gans an governans, tiogow yn Kernow re dhallathas plansa milyow a wedhennow war aga thir.

Dyghtys vydh an towl gans Konsel Kernow ha seulabrys y feu plansys moy es peswar mil wedhen, gans an amkan a blansa kemmys ha dewdhek mil warn ugens oll war-barth kyns nessa gwav.

Plensys re beu an gwedhennow yn lies tyller divers, rag ensampel, yn keow, klyswydh, kornellow a barkow, hag avalenegi yn bargenyow tir yn Bosvena, Egloslajek ha war an Lysardh.

Konseler Martyn Alvey a dhisplegyas bos an ragdres ‘an alhwedh dhe wruthyl moy gwedhegi’ hag a wre ‘gorra moy karbon yn dann alhwedh ha gwellhe natur’.

Ev a geworras bos mall dhe’n konsel ‘skoodhya tiogow erel owth adoptya an system a blansa ma meur y les’.

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As part of a project funded by the government, farmers in Cornwall have begun planting thousands of trees on their land.

The project will be managed by Cornwall Council and already more than 4,000 trees have been planted, with the aim of planting as many as 32,000 all together before next winter.

The trees have been planted in many different places: in hedgerows, shelter-belts, field corners and orchards on farms in Bodmin, Ladock and on the Lizard.

Councillor Martyn Alvey explained that the project was ‘key to creating more woodland’ which would ‘lock up carbon and restore nature’.

He added that the council was looking forward to ‘supporting more farmers to adopt this highly beneficial planting system’.

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And finally this week, the NHS in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have announced a range of measures that will allow many of its patients to spend Easter at home with their families. This will have the additional benefit of freeing up space for emergency treatment in the trust’s hospitals over the holidays.

A special support helpline has been set up, and one-off payments will be available to help pay the cost of additional care and any necessary changes to the patients’ homes.

It’s interesting to note that, in Cornish, the Isles of Scilly is generally referred to as ‘Syllan’, which may reflect that fact that 4000 years ago, it was just one island, until rising sea levels gradually split it into the island group that we see today.

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An NHS yn Kernow ha Syllan re dheklaryas y fynna ev gul devnydh a ‘vusurow divers’ may hallo nebes a’y berthyoryon spena Pask tre gans aga theylu, hag yth esa ev ow kesoberi gans kemenethow, an konsel, ha bagasow gwith rag kowlwul an amkan na.

Pennsodhoges klavjioryon, Susan Bracefield, a leveris, ‘Ni a wor an brassa rann a dus dhe wellhe moy uskis hag i tre’, ow keworra y hwre an ragdres provia moy spas yn klavjiow an trest rag goredhommow dres an dy’golyow.

Y fydh pemonts arbennik kavadow dhe berthyoryon dhe dyli kost a brovia gwith keworransel po aswiwa aga chi, mar pe henna res.

Dres henna, skoodhys vydh perthyoryon dre linen weres hag i tre.

Wel, henn yw oll ahanav vy an seythen ma. Pask Lowen dhywgh hwi oll.

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The NHS in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly have announced that it would make use of ‘a variety of initiatives’ to allow some of its patients to spend Easter at home with their families, and that it was working with communities, the council and care teams to achieve this aim.

Chief Nursing Officer, Susan Bracefield, said, ‘We know people recover better and more quickly at home’, adding that the project would provide more space in the trust’s hospitals for emergencies over the holidays.

Special payments will be available to patients to pay for the cost of providing additional care or adapting their home, if that were necessary.

In addition, patients will be supported through a helpline while they are at home.

Well, that’s all from me for this week. Happy Easter to you all.

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This week’s An Nowodhow was written and presented by Steve Penhaligon and edited by Wella Morris. You can listen to the programme again on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sounds.