Pickets were held outside the Salisbury Road branch of Tesco Express in Cathays, Cardiff and Tesco in Bangor. This is but one of many events being held by Cymdeithas yr Iaith (The Welsh Language Society) to underline the need for an effective New Welsh Language Act. More pickets and protests will be held during the next few weeks.

Members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg targeted targeted Tesco and Morrison stores through out Wales last night, covering them with stickers calling for a New Welsh Language Act. The stores targeted were in Bangor, Caernarfon, Aberystwyth, Carmarthen, Swansea and Cardiff (Grangetown and 2 stores on Cowbridge Road). A slogan was painted on the wall of the Morrison store in Caernarfon.

Cymdeithas yr Iaith has welcomed the announcement by Coun. Dyfed Edwards (Holder of Education Portfolio in Gwynedd) that the plan to re-organise dozens of Gwynedd schools into federations has been suspended for a year to allow consideration of the new possibilities for collaboration between schools which are anticipated in new Assembly guidelines shortly to be published.

Today, which is the day that students receive their results for the first semester, the students themselves will be awarding degrees to Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities.