A pub in Aberystwyth has said that they will close their doors at 10pm on Saturday night after they expressed concerns about people’s “complete disregard of the fight against the pandemic”. The Ship and Castle Pub criticised the behaviour and abuse they were experiencing in the wake of efforts to […]
Natural Resources Wales has been accused of failing to insist on adequate testing of the sediment from the construction of Somerset’s Hinkley C nuclear power station. EDF Energy has applied to dispose of the sediment in the sea two miles from the South Wales coast. They applied for permission to […]
A Welsh Government report detailing a reasonable worst-case scenario for the Covid-19 pandemic in Wales shows the number of hospital admissions peaking around Christmas. The report shows the number of infections, hospital admissions and deaths estimated to occur for Wales between 1st July 2020 and 31st March 2021. The reasonable […]
First Minister Mark Drakeford says the Welsh Government is not considering proposals for a national lockdown at present, despite the recent increase in coronavirus cases. Earlier on Friday The UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, refused to rule out imposing nationwide restrictions across England to try to slow a surge in […]
The First Minister Mark Drakeford has said that the very little contact the Welsh Government had with the UK Government was “unacceptable”. Mark Drakeford said he had had one brief conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson since May 28. He said that he was receiving “inconsistent” messages on whether there […]
The First Minister Mark Drakeford has said that they are now “very confident” that the R rate in Wales has crept back above 1. He said that in the last week cases had gone from 20 per 100,000 to almost 35. 41 people were now being treated in hospital for […]
Welsh Conservative MPs have now received over £30,000 in so-called ‘dark money’ over the last 12 months after a London-based club gave cash to Wrexham Conservatives as part of a campaign to hold on to former ‘red wall’ seats. Nation.Cymru revealed in February how over half of the funding for Wales’ newly […]
Welsh speakers have been left impressed by the advice of a US agony aunt who answered a letter by a woman who said the Welsh language was causing discord in her relationship. In her ‘Ask Amy’ column in the Chicago Tribune, Amy Dickinson answered a question by a woman who […]
A BBC presenter has apologised after “mangling” Welsh place-names when discussing the new coronavirus lockdowns. Nick Robinson, the current presenter of the Today programme on Radio 4, was discussing the lockdown in Rhondda Cynon Taf. “I’m going to have nightmares about this.,” he said on Twitter in response to criticism. […]
The UK Government must consider a shorter working week to save jobs and rebuild the economy, the Future Generations Commissioner has said. Sophie Howe, alongside General Secretary of the Wales TUC Shavanah Taj, have written a joint letter calling on the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to consider changes before the furlough […]
