<h2 class="date-header">Thursday, 4 October 2007</h2>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://this-is-sparta.blogspot.com/2007/10/swansea-council-confused-about-road.html"><font color="#000000">Swansea Council Confused About Road Signs</font></a> </h3>
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<p>Golwg reveals that Swansea Council has admitted that it <i>hasn't</i> received permission from the Welsh Government to put up monoglot English signs on a roundabout, despite <a href="http://this-is-sparta.blogspot.com/2007/09/swansea-bans-bilingual-signs.html" target="new">
<font color="#cc0000">claims made by a spokesperson last week</font></a>. he Heritage Minister, Rhodri Glyn Thomas, told Golwg on Tuesday <i>"It isn't true that the government has given (Swansea Council) permission...The Welsh Language Board is discussing the matter with Swansea Council."
</i><br><br>Swansea Council now aknowledges this, though it still seems to be in a state of confusion on the matter.<br><br><i>"An officer told me that perhaps permission had been given"</i> said Jason Rogers, Council Communications Officer.
<i>"But I hadn't confirmed that with certainty as being the situation. So I got a bit of a shock reading Golwg's article."</i><br><br>Last week he told Golwg: <i>"It goes against the council's language policy but the Assembly Government gave us special license to make the change"
</i>. <br><br>Hmmm.<br><br>Returning to the present, he (now) says: <i>"The situation has changerd somewhat. But I don't in truth believe that the Assembly has given us special permission.<br><br>I'm still working with officers in order to work out what the situation is."
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