<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-story-body__h1">No M&S Foodhall sign amid Welsh language planning row</h1>
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The store's Park Avenue entrance has no external Foodhall sign
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</figure><p class="gmail-story-body__introduction">A new Marks and
Spencer store has opened in Aberystwyth without its foodhall sign after
it refused to provide a Welsh language translation.</p><p>Ceredigion councillors said all signs at the new branch should be in Welsh and English.</p><p>But the firm said "Foodhall" was a brand name and was not translated anywhere.</p><p>M&S removed the planned sign from its original application to allow the store to open but has now lodged a fresh one.</p><figure class="gmail-media-landscape gmail-no-caption gmail-full-width">
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</figure><p>The firm's new application reiterates its claim that M&S Foodhall is a brand name under the Marks and Spencer trademark.</p><p>It
said there was no legal requirement for it to provide bilingual signs
as the law only applies to public sector bodies and private firms in the
gas, electricity, postal and railway industries.</p><p>It added it did not translate branded signs in its international stores in countries such as Turkey, Ireland and India.</p><p>Aberystwyth
Town Council has once again objected to the application, saying it
expected the Welsh language "to be at least as prominent as the
English".</p><p>Chris Bentley, M&S Aberystwyth store manager, said:
"All directional signage in-store will be bilingual and colleagues that
speak Welsh can be identified via badges this is in line with our
language policy created with the Welsh Language Commissioner."</p><p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-39367129">http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-39367129</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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