News Archive

No licence fee? Welsh powers would strengthen public service broadcasting
17/02/2020 - 16:59
Following press reports that the UK Government is threatening the licence fee, campaigners have claimed that the devolution of broadcasting powers to Wales is essential in order to defend and strengthen public service broadcasting . According to reports in the Sunday Times, the UK Government wants to turn the BBC into a subscription service. At the moment, the majority of S4C funding comes from the licence fee.
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Ysgol Plasdŵr: Protestors occupy Cardiff Council offices
20/01/2020 - 18:05
A group of protestors occupied Cardiff Council’s offices today in a campaign for Welsh-medium schools at the Plasdŵr development in the capital.
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Ministers broke law nine times over lack of Welsh on trains
06/01/2020 - 12:30
Welsh Ministers have been found guilty of breaking the law in nine different ways by failing to provide Welsh language services on the train franchise they took over fifteen months ago.
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Second homes council tax: councils missing out on millions
23/12/2019 - 13:02
Some of Wales’ biggest councils - including Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire - are missing out on millions of pounds a year by failing to use powers to raise council tax on second homes, research has revealed.
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Lack of Welsh teachers: Call for ‘urgent changes’

10/12/2019 - 14:34
Campaigners have urged major policy changes to increase the supply of Welsh speaking teachers in order to meet the one million Welsh speakers target, ahead of an expected announcement this week about new education regulations. 
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National Development Framework: a fatal blow to the Welsh language?
11/11/2019 - 10:25
Campaigners have expressed concerns about the implications for the Welsh language in the National Development Framework, if the draft published by the Welsh Government is realised.  They claim that there could be very harmful outcomes for the language situation in Carmarthenshire and the north.
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‘Unbelievable’ u-turn over Wrexham council language fine - call for external inquiry
05/11/2019 - 10:34
There are calls for an inquiry after the Welsh Language Commissioner backtracked on a decision to fine Wrexham Council over its failure to produce tax documents in Welsh for the fifth year in a row. 
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‘House prices and lack of work are emptying Welsh speaking communities’ - warn campaigners
15/10/2019 - 10:53
The crisis in the housing market is ‘emptying Welsh speaking villages’ - that will be the main message of campaigners at at conference in Aberystwyth today (Saturday, 12th October).
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Bailiffs call on Ceredigion woman who refused to pay licence fee
25/09/2019 - 16:23
A woman from Ceredigion says she is going to continue to refuse to pay a court penalty she received as part of a campaign to gain broadcasting powers for Wales, despite bailiffs calling at her house just a few weeks ago. 
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Welsh Language Commissioner's investigations at their lowest ever
02/09/2019 - 15:04
According to information received by a language group, the new Welsh Language Commissioner refused to investigate over seventy per cent of complaints relating to the lack of Welsh language services received during his first month in the post – the highest percentage of refusals since the Standards came into force.
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