The National Botanic Gardens based in Llanarthne should not receive public funding while in breach of its language duties - that's the call from language campaigners in a letter to the First Minister and Leader of Carmarthenshire County Council following complaints about English-only signage.
"A million Welsh speakers", that's the aim all the parties should include in their manifestos in 2016, according to language campaigners who have started putting together ideas to inform the next Welsh Government's policies today (Thursday, 26th March).
Expressing its disappointment that Ceredigion's Cabinet has once again taken the "predictable" path of starting a Statutory Consultation on a proposal to close two village schools Cymdeithas say that these schools could be the key to drawing newcomers into Welsh-language community life.
Language campaigners have welcomed the announcement that Powys County Council is to establish a working group that will tackle the decline in the number of Welsh speakers in the County.
On behalf of the Maldwyn branch of Cymdeithas yr Iaith, Elwyn Vaughan said:
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg has reacted to the new language rights published today.
Manon Elin, vice-chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg’s rights group commented:
Carmarthenshire County Council has come under fire for stopping the public from going to meetings of a panel discussing far-reaching changes aimed at strengthening the Welsh language in the area.
Students have pasted posters in the Morrisons store in Aberystwyth as part of a national campaign against the supermarket because of its lack of Welsh language services.
Cymdeithas yr Iaith has criticised a report presented to Ceredigion County Council that recommends the closure of a Welsh-medium village school, the author of which has neither visited the school or spoken to anyone connected specifically with the school.
