ICONIC CORNISH CASTLE FLIES THE FLAG FOR LIB DEMS DURING ELECTION (Julia Goldsworthy)

Julia Goldsworthy <info@juliagoldsworthy.org>

ICONIC CORNISH CASTLE FLIES THE FLAG FOR LIB DEMS DURING ELECTION

April 9, 2010 5:00 PM

Julia Goldsworthy and castle owner Anne Sawalha with the flag at Carn Brea Castle

One of Cornwall's most iconic buildings is flying the flag for the Liberal Democrats in the general election. Carn Brea Castle, which sits atop Carn Brea and is visible for miles around the Camborne and Redruth area, will fly a yellow Lib Dem flag from its battlements for the entire campaign.

The 14th Century stone folly is a widely used as a symbol of the area and regularly features on the front of brochures and guides advertising Cornwall. Present owners Munir and Anne Sawalha now run it as a Jordanian restaurant. The couple said they agreed to fly the flag from the building in support of local Lib Dem candidate Julia Goldsworthy.

Mrs Sawalha said: "We offered to do it to support Julia. She's been such a great local MP that we felt it was the least we could do."

Miss Goldsworthy said: "I'm very grateful to the Sawalhas for demonstrating their support in this way. This has to be one of the most unusual and distinctive political poster sites in the whole country. We have put plenty of posters up in our campaigns in the past, but this is the first flag!"