The recent 2022 census held unexpected news for Wales. It found the number of Welsh speakers in the country had decreased by 1.2% since the previous 2011 census, from 19% to 17.8%. This represents an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Botwnnog village council wants to ban non-Welsh speakers from moving into the new homes - WALES NEWS SERVICE Non-Welsh speakers ...

Councillors in Wales would like a new housing development of affordable homes to be limited to Welsh speakers only. Botwnnog Community Council in Gwynedd, north Wales, has objected to proposals for 18 ...

The percentage of people able to speak Welsh is the lowest recorded in over eight years at 27.7%, government statistics indicate. There were around 851,700 Welsh speakers in Wales in the year ending ...

Welsh-speaking inmates have been told to use English by staff at Wales' biggest prison, according to former inmates. Speaking to researchers at Cardiff and Liverpool universities, ex-prisoners at HMP ...

The Welsh government has a language strategy that aims to have a million people speaking Welsh by 2050. And it seems to be working: recently on TV channel S4C, 230,000 children from more than 1,000 ...

A plan to ban English speakers from moving into a new housing estate in a Welsh coastal village has been ruled illegal. The village council of Trefor, on the North Wales coast, said it would only ...

A new pilot scheme aims to boost language skills in the childcare sector and expand the use of Welsh in early years settings.