Public organisations in Wales must display Welsh language signs

It emerged last month that some of Ceredigion Council's online documents, and hard copies, were not being translated into Welsh.

This prompted the Welsh Language Board to accuse the authority of ignoring its own policy, and it asked for a meeting.

The council has now voted to employ extra staff to resolve the problem.

Currently, it has four translators but according to the council they are snowed under with work.

The council said it intended to recruit one additional full-time and a part-time worker in the translation department, and it will also use self-employed staff.

Services in other areas will not be cut to pay for this Council leader Keith Evans

The extra �103,000 will be used to pay for extra printing costs as well.

Council leader Keith Evans said other services would not suffer as a result of the extra cost to taxpayers.

"When we put documents on our website we knew we were not complying with out policy, but this was an interim measure while we sorted certain things out," he said.

"Services in other areas will not be cut to pay for this, because from time to time we have windfalls as a council from returns on investments.

"We sometimes receive more money from council tax than we expected. This money will be used."

Mr Evans said online documents and some reports contained within council agendas have not been translated and therefore failed to comply with the council's language policy.