At 1pm today, outside of the Cymdeithas yr Iaith Stand at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Rhuthun, Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg will be launching a National petition calling for a New Welsh Language Act.

The petition calls on the Welsh Assembly Government to ensure a New Welsh Language Act that will provide official status and a Commissioner for the Language, along with basic rights that will give everyone in Wales fair and real opportunities to learn Welsh, receive a Welsh medium education and be enabled to use the language in every aspect of life.This comes 10 days before the New Welsh Language Act Festival being held in Aberystwyth's Art Centre at 2pm on the 10th of June.In the Festival, their will be statements by Eleanor Burnham AM, Lisa Francis AM, the leader of the opposition Ieuan Wyn Jones, representatives of national societies, alongside poets, bands and rappers, all of whom will support the call for a new Welsh language act.