Jon Gower Wales 29, Fiji 17. It takes a long time to banish some nightmares. That dark day, 29th September, 2007 when Fiji whooped Wales, still casts its long shadow but today Wales exhibited individual brilliance whilst digging deep collectively as a team against muscular and fierce Fiji onslaughts in […]
Language campaigners have accused the First Minister of dishonesty about the Welsh Government’s view on the Welsh Assembly name change, ahead of a vote today on the matter. In July, a delegation from Cymdeithas yr Iaith met the First Minister and asked for his view on a Welsh-only name for […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home First Minister’s Questions. Leader of the Opposition, Paul Davies AM (Con, Preseli Pembs.) asked how many operations have been cancelled in the Welsh NHS over the last four years? In the absence of a clear answer by the First Minister, he decided to help him out: “….the […]
There are fears that hundreds of thousands of voters in Wales won’t be able to vote in a snap election because they’re not on the electoral roll. The Electoral Commission’s first major study of the ‘completeness’ of the electoral register in three years reveals that between 410,000 and 560,000 people […]
A Welsh independence referendum before 2030 is possible if the UK does not reform itself, according to a Conservative AM. David Melding, who has been an Assembly Member since the Senedd was formed in 1999, said that Plaid Cymru’s aim of holding a referendum before that date wasn’t “entirely fanciful”. […]
The Labour party have selected their candidate in an attempt to retain the Ynys Môn seat after MP Albert Owen decided to step down. Mary Roberts said that she had been born and raised on the Anglesey and said that she had “the passion, experience and campaigning skills” to represent […]
A bid to replace ex-Arfon Assembly Member Alun Ffred Jones as Plaid Cymru Chair failed on the second day of the party’s annual conference in Swansea. Dr Dewi Evans, who had expressed support for allowing independent Assembly Member Neil McEvoy back into the party, was defeated in the conference vote. […]
Jonathan Edwards MP will tell the Plaid Cymru conference today that the Brexit process has had the same effect on support for independence as what Thatcher had for devolution. The main reason of the shift between the 1979 no vote for devolution, to the 1997 yes vote was “the people […]
Families on housing benefit are priced out of almost all homes to rent in Wales, according to new research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The investigation found only 52 two-bed properties across Wales that were affordable. In some cities, the Bureau found almost no affordable two-bed flats to rent: […]
Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price will set out a new cradle-to-grave vision for Wales as a “caring country” in his Plaid Cymru conference speech on Friday. In his speech at his party’s annual conference in Swansea this weekend, the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr AM will say that a Plaid Cymru government […]
