News Archive

06/01/2014 - 19:20
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg has warned that the Government’s new language standards - regulations which will place duties on bodies to provide services in Welsh - could offer worse Welsh language services to the public.
02/01/2014 - 14:34
Cymdeithas yr Iaith has accused Ceredigion Council of wasting time and money with spurious public consultations which are claimed to be no more than "exercises in ticking boxes".
02/01/2014 - 14:20
Cymdeithas yr Iaith have dismissed the consultation process over Carmarthenshire Council's budget as "at best irrelevant, and in fact damaging to the future of the Welsh language and Welsh-speaking communities in the county."   Cymdeithas area officer for Dyfed, Bethan Williams said:
31/12/2013 - 10:30
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg will publish its own alternative Planning Bill in a bid to shake-up the planning system in order to strengthen the Welsh language at a community level - that’s the promise of the group’s chair in his new year’s message.
23/12/2013 - 19:38
The First Minister did not send a single email in Welsh over a period in September despite launching a campaign encouraging others to do it five times a day.  
28/11/2013 - 13:17
Members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith and campaigners for village schools under threat in Ceredigion came together at Ceredigion Council Headquarters in Aberystwyth to protest against what they call the twin "serial school closers" of ESTYN and Ceredigion LEA. The protest takes place during the week when ESTYN are carrying out an inspection of Ceredigion's education department. Cymdeithas Education spokesperson Ffred Ffransis is expected to tell
22/11/2013 - 13:18
Language campaigners have said the changes to Radio Cymru prove there needs to be a new independent broadcaster on top of BBC provision.
21/11/2013 - 12:32
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, together with the action group Save Penrhos, has sent a formal letter to Planning Minister Carl Sargeant asking him to call in the decision by Anglesey County Council planning committee to grant planning permission to Land & Lakes to build holiday homes in Penrhos. Anglesey County Council planning committee decided to grant  planning approval in a meeting on November 6th, even though the committee had decided to refuse it
15/11/2013 - 13:00
Campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg has welcomed the Welsh Language Commissioner’s investigation report into Torfaen Council after it launched an English-only hotline this year.
22/10/2013 - 14:51
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg has reacted to the First Minister’s statement about the timetable for introducing language standards.