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Pupils at the London Welsh school in Ealing. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

Parents and children say they love Ysgol Gymraeg Llundain (the London Welsh school), the only bilingual Welsh language nursery and primary school in England. The only problem, according to the school’s chair of governors, is there aren’t enough of them.

For 65 years Ysgol Gymraeg Llundain has been teaching Welsh language and culture to children of the Welsh diaspora. But since Covid, the tiny independent school in west London has become even tinier.