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To promote Galician, BNG are demanding that corporations and institutions receiving grants from A Xunta (the Galician government) commit themselves to using Galician. Other measures proposed by BNG are for a 40% minimum quota of Galician on the TV and radio and an increase in cultural contacts with Portuguese-speaking countries. Portuguese and Galician were the same language in the Middle Ages and remain closely related.

A builder is paying £13,000 for a unique collection of 92 signed soccer shirts with the proceeds going to help save Wrexham Football Club.

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.1 Global Hectaers

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 5.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.3 PLANETS.

Cannabis test 'positive' for AMs
A Welsh assembly member who called for his colleagues to volunteer to try out a new drug detection machine has tested "positive" for cannabis himself.

Microsoft helps China to censor bloggers

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The American company is helping censors remove "freedom" and "democracy" from the net in China with a software package that prevents bloggers from using these and other politically sensitive words on their websites.

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Users who try to include such terms in subject lines are warned: "This topic contains forbidden words. Please delete them."

Mewn datganiad, dywedodd Adran Diwylliant San Steffan eu bod "yn ystyried cynhyrchu ffurflenni Cymraeg" ond bod "problemau ymarferol ynglŷn â sut y gall pobl ddi-Gymraeg ddeall cais Cymraeg".

My name is Mark Brady and I'm currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Essex. I'm interesting in blogging and how reputation spreads in the blogosphere. To that end, I've constructed this online questionnaire to gather a first wave of data. The questionnaire should take no more than 20 minutes, and you need to be a blogger to answer it. Please email the URL of the questionnaire to any other bloggers you know, or even post the URL on your own blog.

Wales mindful of GB football team

Wales have given a guarded response to British Olympic officials' plans to field a combined British football team if the 2012 Games are held in London.

The FA of Wales says its position is closer to that of Scotland, who fear a British team could lose the "national identity" of the home nations.

FAW secretary general David Collins said: "We would obviously wish to protect the four British positions.

"We will cross that bridge if London or Paris' Olympic bid is successful."

The Welsh, like the Scots, are worried that a British team would threaten the position of the individual home nations within world football.

Historicaly Wales was a suburb of Atlantis that was founded by illiterate whale worshippers, wanting to name their new land after these giants of the sea but been beaten by the fact that they were illiterate. Wales was once a small collection of about 18 smaller states, the two most important being Dadlau and Rhyfel however these two state were joined together in the year 486 Since its creation the denizens of Wales have evolved from worshipping whales to worshipping Goblins and sheep instead.

Type of people having characteristics making them look like a well. Derived from 'Wellish,' because people are lazy and like using as few letters as possible. If it continues on as such, will be known as 'Welh' within 45 years.