Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg received a very good response to the demonstrations organised today against Travel Agents Thomas Cook who had banned staff from speaking Welsh in the work place.

Over a hundred people protested outside Thomas Cook in Bangor where the trouble originated with many playing drums and another seventy demonstrators, including Assembly Member Leanne Wood turned up in Cardiff. In Carmarthen a dozen Cymdeithas members picketed the shop. Protesters wore Welsh Not signs around their necks, some had their mouths taped and drumers turned up in Bangor.All the demonstrators signed a letter of protest to Thomas Cook demanding that the ban on using Welsh be quashed, and passers by on the street were also invited to sign the letter. Dewi Snelson, who organised the Bangor protest said that the response to the demonstration from people on the street was very encouraging.The letters of protest will now be passed on to Thomas Cook and Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg wishes to discuss the matter with Carwyn Jones the Assembly Minister with responsibility for the Welsh language.Dafydd Morgan Lewis, Campaigns Officer for Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg said:"This controversy has shown us how inadequate the present WelshLanguage Act is and we shall draw Carwyn Jones's attention to this in the very near future when a meeting with him has been arranged."Cwmni teithio: Protest - BBC Cymru, 15/06/07Further protests at Thomas Cook - BBC Wales, 15/06/07BANGORCARMARTHENCARDIFF