Welsh slate bids for global status

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Vanoord
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12 years ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22097403

Quite an interesting article on Welsh slate through the ages, although the map ignores Corris and Llangollen...

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Edd
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12 years ago

Very interesting article 🙂

'I started reading it with full intention to read it all and then got bored and went and got beer instead!'

ChrisJC
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12 years ago

Not quite sure what the point is?
Why should an EU quango* be marketing products? Surely Welsh Slate have a marketing dept.

Chris.

*well, I don't know if it's a quango to be fair to it.

sinker
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12 years ago

"ChrisJC" wrote:

....Surely Welsh Slate have a marketing dept...

Do you mean "Welsh slate" as in slate from Wales, or do you mean "Welsh Slate" as in the company....?

Yma O Hyd....

Vanoord
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12 years ago

This is Welsh slate as in slate from Wales.

I purposefully didn't capitalise the 'slate' in the title 😉

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sinker
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12 years ago

"Vanoord" wrote:

This is Welsh slate as in slate from Wales.

😉 Some folks aren't aware....

Welsh slate needs all the help it can get....from "quangos" or anywhere else for that matter.....

Whereas Welsh Slate.....hmmm...

Yma O Hyd....