"AN AIRLINE is claiming a world first with the launch of a tri-lingual website in English, Gaelic and Welsh.
"The 'Laws of Hywel Dda' is the term applied to a system of native Welsh law named after Hywel Dda (died 950) who is credited with its codification. None of the surviving Welsh law manuscripts, however, is earlier than the second quarter of the thirteenth century. Although they contain law that is of twelfth- and thirteenth-century origin, scholars are agreed that these manuscripts contain a core of matter that is much earlier in date. Most of these books are small in size and were probably designed as 'pocket-books' to be carried about by lawyers rather than to be kept on library shelves."
"If the language is to live, we see how essential it is that we move on swiftly to update and strengthen the 1993 Welsh Language Act: to strengthen the language’s status in public administration and services; to give language rights to Welsh speakers who wish to speak it in their daily lives and to Welsh speaking communities; to increase the provision of Welsh medium schools, to create centres to verify and standardise Welsh language terms in new fields and to establish a statutory Commissioner to be a constitutional guardian of the Welsh language."
"Mae’r gantores jazz, Lleuwen Steffan, yn hanu o Ddyffryn Ogwen ac yn gyn-aelod o'r band ‘Acoustique'. Mae ei llais melfedaidd yn adnabyddus ar draws Gymru, yn ogystal a thu hwnt i'r ffin.
"A mountainside in Snowdonia is the site of an experiment to increase stocks of wild native bluebells.
"At the end of 1955 it was announced that Liverpool Corporation was intending to build a new reservoir in the Tryweryn valley, in order to meet the city's growing need for water. The plan was to erect a dam on the river Tryweryn, thus drowning the village of Capel Celyn, north of Bala."
"HylaFAX is an enterprise-class system for sending and receiving facsimiles as well as for sending alpha-numeric pages.
