A Welsh language campaigner could be jailed after insisting she would not pay costs imposed for failing to pay for a TV licence as she called for broadcasting issues to be decided in Wales.

Eiris Llywelyn, of Ty’r Ardd in Ffostrasol, is the second Ceredigion-based Cymdeithas yr Iaith member to appear in court for refusing to pay the TV licence fee as part of the society’s campaign calling for the Welsh Government to take control over broadcasting in Wales.

But after she was given a six-month conditional discharge, Llywelyn, 68, insisted that she would not pay costs of £200 and a £20 surcharge, which could see her sent to prison.

Llywelyn insisted that ensuring decisions over broadcasting in Wales were made in the country would provide more coverage in the Welsh language and ensure that Welsh audiences would benefit from the language.

She said: “This campaign is as important as the fight to establish S4C back in the 1970s and ’80s.

“It’s a fight for the future of our language, our communities and for our democracy.

“Democracy is impossible without powers over the media - and a media which reflects our values and our culture - so that we see the world through a Welsh window.

“Devolving the broadcasting system is as important as the political system itself.

“The current system is run from Westminster. Every day we’re treated as part of England by all the British broadcasters and British propaganda which is broadcast to us in Wales.

“Westminster holds the reins. That’s what’s responsible for our current broadcasting backwater in Wales."

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