News Archive

Lack of Welsh online: ‘Urgent need’ for new digital body
06/08/2019 - 18:55
A new body to improve the presence of the Welsh language online is urgently needed because of the language’s current lack of visibility, according to a language group.
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Welsh communications regulator launched to replace Ofcom
24/06/2019 - 12:57
A new body to oversee broadcasting in Wales, to replace the present UK regulator, will be launched at a meeting in Carmarthenshire today (Monday, 24th June). The announcement about the creation of a shadow communications body for Wales follows a series of controversial decisions by the existing regulator, Ofcom, which, according to the founders of the new body, is ‘undermining Wales and the Welsh language’s place in the media’.
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Councils’ plans to halt language impact assessments open to court challenge says barrister
15/06/2019 - 15:48
Gwynedd and Ynys Môn councils are risking court challenges if they push ahead with a change of policy that would prevent councillors from commissioning language impact assessments of planning applications, according to a legal expert.
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Non-Welsh speakers call for Welsh-only name for the Senedd
01/06/2019 - 12:17
A group of learners and non-Welsh speakers have called on the Llywydd Elin Jones to drop her plans to impose an English name on the Senedd, in an open letter to her today (Friday, 31st May).
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Call for new Welsh digital body to improve language’s online profile
27/05/2019 - 10:20
Language campaigners have launched a campaign for a new digital body (Menter Iaith Ddigidol) saying that ‘developing Welsh online is as important as translating the Bible was to the language’.
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Only one council offers Welsh-medium apprenticeships
13/05/2019 - 11:13
Only one council in Wales has offered Welsh-medium apprenticeships over the last four years, according to a language group’s research.
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Government experts call for Welsh-medium Education Act
10/05/2019 - 12:48
Language campaigners have welcomed an expert panel’s recommendation that the Government should introduce a Welsh-medium Education Act. In a report commissioned by the Welsh Government to review the system for planning Welsh-medium education, a panel of experts which includes Professor Dylan Foster Evans and Meirion Prys Jones state:
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Cardiff Council Leader breaks promise to build new Welsh-medium school
25/04/2019 - 09:35
Campaigners have criticised the Leader of Cardiff Council for breaking a promise to open a Welsh-medium school as part of a large housing development in the city.
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Celebrities call for the opening of only Welsh medium schools in Cardiff
09/04/2019 - 09:53
Actress Mali Harries a Super Furry Animals musician Cian Ciaran are among over 35 celebrities who have called on Cardiff Council to ensure that only Welsh medium schools will be opened across the city in the future.
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Family’s plea to council leader over Gwynedd language centres
25/03/2019 - 16:17
A family from the Dolgellau area have asked for an urgent meeting with the leader of Gwynedd council leader in an effort to prevent cuts to the county’s language centres.
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