NOW MUM GOES TO GWLAD YR LA
Iceland told to use Welsh sign
LIZARD SNACK ATTACK
A RAMPAGING giant monitor lizard raids a supermarket and climbs the shelves in search of a snack.
The 6ft-long reptile emerged from a nearby canal and ran into the 7-Eleven store, sparking panic.
Staff and customers hid behind the counter while the beast, which has sharp claws and a tail like a whip, went on its supermarket sweep.
Shocked customer Narumpa Tangsin said: “They’re dangerous animals, especially when they’re angry, so I stayed well back. I guess shops have everything, even for lizards.”
A rescue team arrived at the store in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, and took the creature safely outside.
ICELAND has been told to use the Welsh word for the country on its signs.
The frozen food chain, which has its HQ in Wales, has applied for permission to display an English version of the company name on a new Welsh branch.
But Aberystwyth Town Council has lodged an objection. Councillors demanded the Welsh translation of Iceland, Gwlad yr la I, should be shown.
The council confirmed at a meeting that it “objects to monolingual signage”,
by TOM BEVAN
adding all signs “should be bilingual with Welsh first”.
Town mayor Charlie Kingsbury said: “We expect all signage to be bilingual.”
Cllr Mark Strong added: “We should be firmly stating that Welsh is equal in use to English in this area.
“And anything that communicates with the public should be bilingual.
“It needs to be strongly, clearly and firmly made to them that we expect all signage that is visible from the outside to be bilingual.”
The calls come less than two months after Iceland’s PR chief Keith Hann, 66, was axed from his £102,000
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job after making derogatory comments about Wales and its language.
On his blog, he referred to Welsh signage in supermarkets as “incomprehensible” and “gibberish”.
And he described it as “uncannily like someone with bad catarrh clearing his throat”.
At the time of Mr Hann’s departure, the firm described itself as a “proud Welsh company, with a long history of investment in Welsh communities.”
The new store is set open on May 11. to