UK: call for unified strategy to protect British minority languages</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="UK: call for unified strategy to protect British minority languages"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="UK,call,for,unified,strategy,to,protect,British,minority,languages"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">14-05-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>UK: call for unified strategy to protect British minority languages</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Edinburgh, Scotland (BBC): A unified strategy to protect British minority languages such as Gaelic and Welsh has been called for. Orkney-based expert Dr Donna Heddle said without one they would become "devalued and lost". She was commenting ahead of a conference, Voices of the West, which will be held in Inverness in June. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7396013.stm " target="blank">news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7396013.stm </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show