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Presenter James Dundon:   Myttin 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 housing charity that wants to turn the Coastguard Flats in Looe into affordable housing for locals.The charity bought the flats from Cornwall Council last year for £1 and have since been trying to raise enough money to renovate them. However, they still need to find another £250,000, which they hope to raise from private investors.One key word to listen out for is ‘rannji’ which is the Cornish word for ‘flat’. It literally means ‘part of a house’.The word for ‘a charity’ is ‘aluseneth’, and another word which crops up a lot is ‘arghans’ which originally meant ‘silver’ but has also now come to be used for  ‘money’
Recording 1/3Myttin da. Yma aluseneth anedhyans owth assaya sevel arghans rag ewnhe unnek rannji yn Logh may hallons provia anedhow affordyadow rag tus leel.Warlena, Konsel Kernow a werthas an Rannjiow Gwithysi Alsyow dhe Three Seas Community Land Trust a unn peuns hepken, hag an trest a akordyas aga nowedhi.An trest a assayas sevel arghans dre ombrofya rag grontys, mes dyghtyer an ragdres, Simon Ryan, a leveris bos hwath edhom a dhew kans ha hanterkans a vilyow a beunsow moy rag kowlwul an ober.Res vydh dhe’n aluseneth sevel arghasans lowr erbynn mis Gortheren, hag yma govenek dhedhi may fo an arghans proviys gans riysi privedh. Mar pens sewen, an ober a allsa dalleth yn kynnyav.Mester Ryan a geworras y fedha an riysi perghennow an drehevyans neb a allsa kemeres rann yn erviransow ow tochya y dhyghtyans.
Translation 1/3Good morning. A housing charity is trying to raise money to repair eleven flats in Looe to provide affordable housing for local people.Last year, Cornwall Council sold the Coastguard Flats to Three Seas Community Land Trust for just one pound, and the trust agreed to renovate them.The trust tried to raise money by applying for grants, but project manager, Simon Ryan, said that a further £250,000 was still needed to complete the work.The charity must raise sufficient funding by July, and it hopes that the money will be provided by private donors. If they were successful, the work could begin in autumn.Mr Ryan added that the donors would be owners of the building who could take part in decisions affecting its management.
Story 2/3: Presenter James Dundon: Our next story is about South West Water who have announced that they are confident that they will not have to impose a hosepipe ban this summer.No surprise there, you might think, given the amount of rain we’ve had recently, but the company say that this is not the only reason for their confidence. They say that other factors include additional investment and other interventions by the company, as well as efforts by customers to use less water.This story is all about ‘dowr’, ‘water’, and other watery words include ‘pur lyb’, ‘very wet’, ‘kreunyow’, ‘reservoirs’, and ‘pibennow dowr’, which are ‘hosepipes’.
Recording 2/3Dowr Soth West re leveris y vos ‘kyfyansek’ na vydh edhom a dhifenna an usyans a bibennow dowr dres Kernow ha Dewnens hevlena.Yn Kernow, difennys o gul devnydh a bibennow dowr dres moy es bledhen, ynter mis Est, dew vil ha dew warn ugens ha mis Gwynngala warlena.Herwydh an kowethyans dowr, ogas ha leun yw kreunyow a-dreus dhe’n ranndir oll, henn yw leverel, yma a-dro dhe dhew ugens kansran moy dowr ynna es dell esa yn mis Meurth warlena.Pur lyb re beu an gewer dres gwav mes, herwydh an kowethyans, nyns yw henna an acheson unnik a’ga omfydhyans.Kevarwodhyas, David Harris, a leveris an kowethyans dhe gressya an myns a dhowr kavadow dre ‘kevarghowyow, oberow, an gewer, ha’gan kliensow ow lehe aga usyans a dhowr’.
Translation 2/3South West Water has said that it is ‘confident’ that there will be no need to ban the use of hosepipes in Cornwall and Devon this year.In Cornwall, it was forbidden to use hosepipes for more than a year, between August 2022 and September last year.According to the water company, reservoirs across the region are almost full, which is to say, there is about 40% more water in them than there was in March last year.The weather over the winter has been very wet but, according to the company, this isn’t the only reason for their confidence.Director, David Harris, said that the company had increased the amount of water available through ‘investments, interventions, the weather, and our customers reducing their use of water’.
Presenter James And finally this week, the story of how the scientists of Cornwall’s Archaeological Unit were able to unravel the mystery of human bones found on Cornish beaches.Their tests were able to show that a skull found on Sennen beach during a beach clean was more than 3,000 years old and dated from the Bronze Age.And it turned out that a more complete skeleton found at Trevone, near Padstow, was probably that of a sailor shipwrecked in the 18th century. Amazing.Some bone-related vocabulary to listen for includes ‘krogen benn’, ‘a skull’; ‘eskern’, ‘bones’; and ‘eskern korf’, ‘a skeleton’. 

Warlena, para a dus esa ow kempenna treth Porthsenan a gavas krogen benn dhenel, ytho i a’s danvonas dhe Unses Hendhyskoniethel Kernow rag bos hwithrys.Provow radyokarbon a dhiskwedhas bos an grogen benn moy es tri mil vloodh, henn yw leverel, dhyworth kres an Oos Brons, mes ny allas an wodhonydhyon leverel meur moy es henna.An Unses Hendhyskoniethel re bia ow studhya ynwedh korf eskern kevys nans yw diw vledhen, yn Treavon, ogas dhe Lannwedhenek.Leveryades a-barth Konsel Kernow, Ann Reynolds, a dherivas bos an eskern ma dhyworth den ynter pymp warn ugens ha dew ugens bloodh. Dell hevel, den krev ha byw re bia ev, hag yth esa chons da bos an eskern ma an remenantys a varner war worhel re bia gwreckys y’n etegves kansbledhen. Pana varth.Well, henn yw oll ahanav vy an seythen ma. Terebo nessa!
Translation 3/3Last year, a team of people who were cleaning Sennen beach  found a human skull, so they sent it off to the Cornwall Archaeological Unit to be examined.Radiocarbon testing showed that the skull was more than 3,000 years old, that is to say, from the middle of the Bronze Age, but the scientists were unable to say much more than that.The Archaeological Unit had also been studying a skeleton found two years ago at Trevone, near Padstow.A spokeswoman for Cornwall Council, Ann Reynolds, reported that these bones were from a man between 25 and 40 years old. It appears that he had been a strong and active man, and there was a good chance that these bones were the remains of a sailor on a ship that had been wrecked in the 18th century. Amazing.Well, that’s all from me for this week. Until next time!
PresenterThis week’s An Nowodhow was written and presented by Steve Penhaligon and edited by Steve Harris. You can listen to the programme again on Â鶹Éç Sounds.