Rhondda Cynon Taf is interested to find out your views on childcare currently available in your local area. Your opinions are important to us and will help us to develop childcare where, and when, it is needed. Feedback from this questionnaire will be used to inform the Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2016 update report. Your feedback…
Police in Aberdare are appealing fro information following an assault which occurred in the town centre shortly after 4.00am on Sunday 1st November 2015 as Hallowe’en events drew to a close. A 24 year old local man was the approached in the Victoria Square area and struck by an unknown man, he fell down and…
There is nothing more evocative of the sound of Wales than its male voice choirs. Standard bearers of local pride and iconic features of the contemporary Welsh landscape, they have moved audiences the world over with their stirring harmonies. Written by Gareth Williams, one of Wales's leading cultural historians, Do You Hear the People Sing? The…
Welsh Conservatives have questioned a set of new guidelines surrounding senior public sector pay in Wales. Published today by Welsh government, the ‘principles and minimum standards’ for ‘senior remuneration’ follow years of Welsh Conservative criticism of council ‘fat cat’ salaries. The Shadow Minister for Local Government has raised doubts over the effectiveness of the…
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) officers are continuing to work with South Wales Fire and Rescue Service to tackle a blaze at a Newport wood recycling site. The site at Newport Docks has an estimated 20,000 tonnes of woodchip waste onsite awaiting removal. Ashley Lansdown, Industry and Waste Team Leader from Natural Resources Wales, said: "Yesterday (Saturday,…
Commenting on the publication of a report by the Royal College of Surgeons – which labels NHS waiting times in Wales ‘unacceptably high’ – Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Health, Darren Millar AM, said: “This is yet more evidence that Welsh patients are getting a raw deal. In England, just six per cent of…
Children in Wales, as members of The Fuel Poverty Coalition has produced its manifesto ‘Ending Wales’ Cold Crisis’ for the National Assembly for Wales’ election in May 2016. The manifesto introduces five key priorities for action for the next Welsh Government over the next 5 years from 2016: Set a new fuel poverty target to…
