Councils in Wales are to be given new powers to turn leisure centres and other buildings into hospitals to help respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Housing and Local Government Minister Julie James has introduced emergency permitted development rights, which will allow local authorities to change the use of buildings or erect […]
First Minister Mark Drakeford has today announced a new £500m fund to provide extra support to the Welsh economy, businesses and charities experiencing a sharp drop in trading as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The Economic Resilience Fund aims to plug the gaps in the support schemes already announced […]
The National Eisteddfod has been postponed until August 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The yearly Wesh language cultural festival was due to be held in Ceredigion for the first time in 28 years, near the town of Tregaron. The “difficult” decision was taken by the organisation’s Management Board over […]
Aberavon Labour MP Stephen Kinnock has been told off by South Wales Police online after he travelled to his father’s house to celebrate his birthday. The son of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock posted a message saying that he and his wife, former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, had made the […]
Opposition politicians have voiced “massive concern” after a deal between the Welsh Government and a company which would have allowed 6,000 Covid-19 tests a day collapsed. Currently, there are only facilities to carry out 800 tests per day in Wales. The Welsh Government are now only predicting to be able […]
Two executives of the private equity firm with plans to take the Six Nations off free-to-air TV recently made five-figure donations to the Conservative party, Nation.Cymru can reveal. Electoral Commission records show that Robert R. Lucas, a managing partner and director of the UK arm of CVC Capital Partners, gave […]
Wales’ Principality Stadium could be turned into a field hospital to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board CEO, Len Richards, said they were making preparations based upon the modelling and predictions of numbers of patients and admissions. “The assumptions have been well documented following publication […]
A former Welsh Government Minister who represented Rhondda for the Labour Party for 13 years has had his application to rejoin the party rejected. Leighton Andrews received a message on 24 March saying that his application had been rejected because the voted for the Green Party at the European Elections […]
The BBC has been criticised after announcing that breakfast news bulletins from BBC Wales would no longer be shown on BBC One. Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the decision was “shocking” and needed to be “overturned immediately”. BBC Wales Director Rhodri Talfan Davies, however, defended the decision, saying audience […]
Care home staff are calling for a boycott of Tesco after they refused to allow them to shop there during the special NHS time slots. Senior care practitioner Ria Roberts, a 34-year-single mum who works for the Pendine Park care organisation in Wrexham, blasted the “lack of respect” shown to […]
