Cornish plea in realm of the Census

The county’s unitary local authority is telling people via its website that they can enter “Cornish” in the survey of people’s lives in the UK.

Cornwall Council has also produced posters for residents to put up in their homes and in shop windows supporting the campaign.

Cornish is not a tick-box option on the official census form. But it is an allowed option under “other” and a campaign has sprung up similar to that for the 2001 census, where people chose “Jedi” from the Star Wars films as their religion.