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Remember the commitment in the One Wales Agreement to launch a Welsh language daily newspaper?

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Remember how when the then Heritage Minister announced extra annual subsidies of £200,000 for Welsh language media over three years when a daily paper would need a minimum of £600,000 a year and substantial public sector advertising to be viable?

Remember the row that ensued?

Did you think any commitment to find ways of funding a daily Welsh language newspaper was a thing of the past?

I did. But tonight an intriguing suggestion that one of the Welsh parties will make a commitment in their manifesto for the upcoming General Election to support the launch a daily paper in Welsh.

Whose manifesto?

The party who has "Welshed-up" - as I'm told the process is now called in academic circles - pretty succesfully over the past few years; the party who wants voters to question what Plaid has delivered in office.

Got it in one: the Welsh Conservatives.

Calls in - no response yet.

UPDATE

The Welsh Conservatives have heard the whispers too. Their response? They have always been supportive of the idea of a Welsh language newspaper and have made that very clear but haven't yet done the number crunching. When they do in and if the money adds up, then they might consider the idea of including a commitment to fund a Welsh language newspaper in their manifesto. Then again ...

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