Councils should be able to translate fewer documents and signs into foreign languages in future, according to new government guidelines.**********
Having materials converted into other tongues discourages some people in the UK from learning English, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears is due to say.
Last year, a BBC investigation suggested local authorities could be spending £100m annually on the process.
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For the past decade, statistician Charles Castonguay has been predicting the demise of francophone communities outside Quebec.
Now, with census data showing a continuing slide in native French-speakers outside Quebec, he says it's time to cut off federal government life-support to the shrinking francophone outposts.