Jul 23rd, 2008 gan Eurolang
The clause that “Regional languages are part of France’s heritage” will be included in Article 75 of France’s Constitution following a vote in the Senate yesterday. The Senate’s decision followed a second vote last week in the National Assembly calling for the introduction of the clause. The move has been given a qualified welcome by ‘regional’ language supporters, with the NGO EBLUL calling for France to go the extra mile and ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
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Jul 23rd, 2008 gan David Cornock
Gordon Brown managed to un-glue himself from an anti-aviation protester to host a reception for Lobby journalists in Downing Street last night.The Prime Minister let us have the run of the No 10 garden, which seemed in good shape despite having hosted …
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Jul 23rd, 2008 gan Nick - Web Team
Just wanted to share a snippet of info which popped up in my feedreader this morning while trawling the web for new links using the tag ‘Wrexham’.
The website Vintage Dish which revives old recipes has unearthed one from 1870 - the Wrexham Gingerbread. [Are you aware of it and do you still use?] Here are the ingredients.
Equal quantities of flour, butter, molasses, and loaf-sugar; the butter, sugar, and molasses to be made hot; then mix in, by degrees, the flour, the rind of a lemon, and ginger to your taste; drop it on buttered tins, leaving a space between, and bake it in a rather quick oven. Take it off with a knife, and to make a variety, roll some over a stick when warm, to look like wafers.
We’re waiting to hear back from Vintage Dish because it would be interesting to know from where they dug up this recipe.
We are aware the late cook and author Dorothy Hartley wrote about traditional cookery and maybe it came from her book, Food in England, which was first published in 1954 and remains in print to this day.
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Jul 23rd, 2008 gan Peter Black
The Welsh Conservatives returned to form yesterday blaming the Welsh Assembly Government for a 154% increase in the bonuses paid to top civil servants over the last five years, even though it is not a devolved matter and despite the fact that the bonus…
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Jul 23rd, 2008 gan Ordovicius
Free and cheaper public transport should be more widely available in Welsh rural areas to combat poverty, says a report by the Assembly’s rural development sub-committee:
The Rural Deprivation in Wales report, which will be launched at the Royal Welsh …
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Martin Eaglestone
We could hardly contain our excitement as the grass grew in Shropshire. Anyway having gone 2-0 down, and sent some of us to the bar, the Baggies woke up and ended up with a pre season 2-2 draw. The joys of pre season football ………..
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With my Swansea Bay 5k entry now posted in readiness for August 5th, curiousity got the better of me today as I wondered what my projected finish time would be - in relation to my running times of late.
Step in the Runner’s World race time predictor a useful online tool for calculating just that - […]
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Paul Flynn
Fun in the garden It was the first time I have ever been there. Last night’s good weather allowed the backbenchers’ reception at 10 Downing Street to be moved to the garden. The rear of the house is not a…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Glyn Davies
Been to the Royal Welsh Show today. Its an amazing event. The biggest drawback was the hastle getting in - waiting in the ‘park and ride’ area for a bus. After half an hour, and some moaning, it arrived. Seems that it was over an hour yesterday. The S…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Glyn Davies
So Alun Ffred has finally been named as Wales’ new Minister of Culture, Media and Sport. Looks a sensible appointment. He was a decent footballer, has lots of media experience and has at least one highly successful singer in the family. And with the es…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Hen Ferchetan
One of the headlines announcing Alun Ffred Jones’ rise to the Cabinet comes from The Stage website. It says: Jones appointed Wales’ Heritage Minister after shock departure of Thomas.Now I know the headline just a teeny bit on the long winded side, bu…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan hedd@cymdeithas.com
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg has written to Alun Ffred Jones congratulating him on his appointment as the new Heritage Minister. Speaking on behalf of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, Dafydd Morgan Lewis said, “We wish Alun Ffred Jones well in his…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan noborderswales
Despite the Home Office’s desire to deport Jean Pierre, on Kenya Airways’ notorious flight KQ101, Jean Pierre didn’t fly yesterday. We’re still not sure what caused the deportation to be cancelled. Appeals to Kenya Airlines to refuse to carry him appeared to fall on deaf ears. Likewise the Home Office, though they actually gave a […]
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Damian OLoan
Damian O'Loan (Paris): What kind of company was Labour keeping when it relied on DUP votes to get 42 day detention through the Commons? The answer is becoming clearer by the day.
Iris Robinson MP, MLA, wife of Northern Ireland First Minister Peter, has made three horrendous statements on public morality. The latest to be reported: “There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children.” Read the rest of this post…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Martin Eaglestone
The appointment of a local politician to a Cabinet deserves recognition. So llongyfarchiadau to Alun Ffred Jones AM on his appointment to the Assembly Government.
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Martin Eaglestone
Yes the fever has struck and no time for that serious political blogging. Shrewsbury beckons tonight as the mighty Baggies continue the build up to the new Premiership season …………..
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Ordovicius
Well, it’s no great surprise that Alun Ffred Jones has become the Assembly Government’s new Heritage Minister. Congratulations to Ffred, who is my local AM.
The appointment was announced today by the First Minister:
Mr Morgan said Alun Ffred Jones wa…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Hen Ferchetan
Alun Ffred Jones - surprise surprise!The AM for Caernarfon has been confirmed as the new minister for Culture. Alun Ffred said that he isdetermined to build on the strong foundations laid by Rhodri Glyn Thomas,and to deliver on the commitments set out …
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Editor
Cambria has been sent a press release by the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) quantifying the amount of booze our alcoholic elected masters in Westminster get through at our expense. Apparently the consumption is about the annual turnover of 35 pubs (and London pubs at that) and nearly £9000 per MP.
It would be interesting […]
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Peter Black
The appointment of Alun Ffred Jones as the new Heritage Minister has been much anticipated none more so than by his own side it seems.Tom Bodden reports that North Wales Plaid AM Janet Ryder welcomed the appointment in a press release issued at 12.37pm…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Matt Wardman
Matt Wardman (Wardman Wire): This is the second in the lastest series of Blogpower Roundups, and this is my roundup of some of the current live issues around Civil Liberties.
While there are differences between bloggers on some questions at the edge on just what comes under Civil Liberties, there's usually a strong consensus around the right to self-expression, and that restriction of topics that we can write about or the excessive monitoring of online activity are BAD things.
Heather Yaxley has reflected on the whole theme of Defending Blogs.
In this roundup, I've covered recent Blogpower posts, and highlighted a number of other posts that I have come across. As it is a thematic roundup, I am going back several weeks.
Colin Campbell's comment about extra speed cameras in South Australia prompted me to do some digging into just how many speed cameras we have now in the UK. The answer: one hell of a lot - perhaps 7,000-10,000 plus all those installed in cars and on motorcyles.
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Che Grav-ara
Defence Questions Regarding St Athan:Adam Price (Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Defence; Transport; Ministry of Justice); Carmarthen East & Dinefwr, Plaid Cymru)This project was announced with considerable…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Anthony Barnett
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): In a meditation on the fate of "Big Player" Unionism in Scotland, in today's FT, John Lloyd fails to register that this is now an argument taking place in England - the really big change from ten years ago. He looks forward cautiously to a Labour win in Glasgow on Thursday and at the same time considers what the argument for the Union needs to be now in Scotland. He asks,
"And what, indeed, would a renewed Unionism look and sound like? Mr Brown has sought to equate Britishness with "a passion for liberty anchored in a sense of duty and an intrinsic commitment to fair play", as he put it three years ago, when still chancellor of the exchequer." Read the rest of this post…
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan John Gilheaney
I heard this song for the first time at the weekend. It’s called White Winter Hymnal and it’s by a group called Fleet Foxes.It’s beautiful.
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Cambria
Well Well Well. So who is going to tell Obama about Morgan ‘the Organ’? Not us…Nooooo. Peter Hain? Nooooo. The political blogosphere? Well, what do you think…
Source: Wales online: Welsh PR guru’s at heart of Obama campaign - WalesOnline
IF Barack Obama is elected President in November, a Welsh public relations guru is likely to have […]
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Nick - Web Team
Quick links to the stories and blogs we’re following today using our shared reader [what’s this?], including:
- Wrexham animal rights campaigners join badger cull rally
- Photos: Ruthin’s new craft centre
- 300 jobs fears if Somerfield chain sale approved
- Mixed emotions over peacock stories
Wrexham animal rights campaigners join badger cull rally - Evening Leader
Animal rights campaigners will join together on Saturday, July 26 outside the Welsh Assembly offices in Colwyn Bay to put pressure on a decision taken to hold a badger cull in an attempt to control bovine TB.
300 jobs fears if Somerfield chain sale approved - Evening Leader
Staff at Flintshire’s five Somerfield stores - Mold, Connah’s Quay, Holywell, Buckley and Flint - are waiting to hear if their jobs are safe.
Countdown to craft centre opening - rhuthun.blogspot.com
Photos show the first proper glimpses of Ruthin’s ’spon-new’ Canolfan Grefft/Craft Centre.
Wait for one peacock story and two come at the same time!
The first is in the form of a letter [Cruel confiscation of our peacocks] in the Denbighshire Free Press: I am appalled by the actions of officials of Denbighshire County Council that they should confiscate a family of peacocks in such a cruel manner in Tremeirchion recently.
The second story [Peacock sets up home on Broughton street] comes from the Evening Leader: The majestic bird has been making himself at home on St Mary’s Way in the Flintshire community, and has now been there for a week with locals feeding him.
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Miss Wagstaff
In early September TOTAL POLITICS, in association with APCO WORLDWIDE will publish the 2008-9 Guide to Political Blogging in the UK. It will contain articles on blogging by some of Britain’s leading bloggers, together with a directory of UK political b…
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24.07.08 - Gweithdy Bocsio/Hunanamddifyniad AM DDIM
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Celf a Chrefft, Helfa Drysor, Gemau Dwr, Sioe Dalentau, Gemau Chwaraeon a llawer mwy!28/7/2008
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Jul 22nd, 2008 gan Eurolang
The use of Welsh on the international stage took a major step forward last week following a decision by the European Union Council of Ministers. They have decided that in future, Ministers will be able to speak in Welsh when representing the UK at the Council of Ministers and have their words translated simultaneously. Citizens will also be able to write in Welsh to office holders at the Council.
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