Analysis has shown that Wales could lose hundreds of millions of pounds of funding to London and the South East of England after Brexit. Wales will lose 2.3 billion as a result of Brexit, a loss per head of the population of £743.11, between 2021 and 2027, the analysis shows. […]
Plaid Cymru have accused Labour in Wales of ‘hypocrisy’ over NHS privatisation following attempts to privatise a major NHS service. Last week, Welsh Labour had said it wouldn’t allow the Welsh NHS to be on the table in the event of post-Brexit US-UK trade negotiations. Now a health board under […]
South Wales East AM Delyth Jewell has been selected to contest her home constituency of Caerphilly for Plaid Cymru for the upcoming 2021 Assembly election. Caerphilly is likely to be a key battleground seat at the election where Plaid Cymru need a swing of 2.90% – or 1,575 votes – […]
Photo by Grahame Jenkins on Unsplash Owen Donovan, Senedd Home Ford Europe has announced that the Bridgend engine plant will close on 25th September 2020, with the loss of around 1,700 jobs. The company have blamed “cost disadvantages” compared to other plants and excess manufacturing capacity due to a fall in […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home Up to a fifth of Welsh care homes could close within five years Shadow Social Care Minister, Janet Finch-Saunders AM (Con, Aberconwy), was alarmed that a survey of Welsh care homes found that 16% of them are expecting to close within five years, while the number of […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home The latest attempt to build a Newport bypass has failed after the First Minister announced this afternoon that the Welsh Government won’t give it the go ahead. The First Minister’s written decision is available here (pdf) alongside the inspector’s report (pdf). Bypass couldn’t be implemented for […]
Machynlleth Town Council has become the first to formally back Welsh independence. The home of Owain Glyndŵr’s Parliament House held a split vote on Tuesday but following a second vote decided to support Yes Cymru’s campaign. “We support the idea and recognise that the campaign should exist, as it were,” […]
S4C has only funded English-medium apprenticeships over the last four years, according to research by a language campaign group. Since 2015, the Welsh language broadcaster has employed three apprentices, who were all non-Welsh speakers, according to S4C’s response to a freedom of information request by Cymdeithas yr Iaith. The response […]
12.10am: That’s it! There are still a few results coming in around the UK, but everything has been one and dusted in Wales, and at a reasonable hour. Perhaps we should do all elections like this? Despite the result being historic, it all went exactly as expected in Wales, with […]
Bridgend Council has sent a landlord a letter threatening a fine over a Cofiwch Dryweryn ‘advertisement’ painted on the side of the building. The landlord of Freya Bletsoe, the owner of the Ella & Riley sweet shop in the town on which the mural is painted, received the letter saying […]
