A book celebrating one dog's role in the Keskerdh Kernow March has been launched this week.

The Dog Who Walked to London, by Ann Trevenen Jenkin is a true story and poem for children - and adults who are young at heart - about a dog called Brengy (Cornish for noble hound) who accompanied a march from St Keverne, through Penryn and on to London.

The event in 1997 commemorated an original march 500 years earlier to protest against taxes levied on the Cornish by Henry VII. Then it was led by St Keverne smith Michael Joseph An Gof and Bodmin lawyer Thomas Flamank who collected around 10,000 followers and who were eventually hung, drawn and quartered on the orders of the king.

"It was a way of standing up for Cornwall, and we had a commemoration march to help the government focus on the fact Cornwall was still very deprived," said Mrs Trevenen Jenkin, who is a former Grand Bard.

At the book launch in Leedstown on Sunday, chairman of Keskerdh Kernow Alastair Quinnell said a few words before some 150 people present had the opportunity to purchase a signed copy.

The volume is illustrated with over 40 colour photographs, and includes line drawings by Craig Weatherhill.