Tenovus Cancer Care’s mobile bowel clinic together with Cwm Taf University Health Board’s cancer experts have cut waiting times for bowel cancer concerns in half for the people of Merthyr Tydfil. The bowel bus is a specialist clinic housed on board one of Tenovus Cancer Care’s mobile support units. The mobile unit have has visited…
On January 31st the ICT Department at St John’s welcomed 28 Year 6 MAT students from our local feeder schools. The aim of the day was to give the students experience of using a range of programming languages to begin to explore the exiting world of computer coding! Using the ‘Hour of Code’ website, student…
Government needs to implement the UNCRDP Returning from Geneva, Disability Wales will launch the Wales today at the Cross Party Working Group on Disability. Our report formed part of the GB Alternative Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled People. In order to ensure that progress is made on meeting the human rights…
Welsh Conservatives will this week call on the National Assembly for Wales to recognise the ongoing failure of the Welsh Labour Government. The calls come in an opposition debate in the Senedd on Wednesday afternoon. Welsh Conservatives will highlight a litany of Labour failures over 18 years of devolution and call on AMs to vote…
Ysbyty Cwm Cynon in Mountain Ash We ask the question why 5 years on from the opening of Ysbyty Cwm Cynon in Mountain Ash is ward 5 unoccupied at Ysbyty Cwm Cynon in Mountain Ash when the Labour controlled Welsh NHS is short of beds? During the planning stages of Ysbyty Cwm Cynon the…
CLAIRE Archer from Cwmbach near Aberdare has recently (March, 2017) been appointed as an Recruitment Administrator for an award-winning care company in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT). The 34-year-old, who previously worked as a receptionist in Cardiff, has joined Abacare, which last year (2016) won a 10-year framework to provide care in the area, and will…
Last year Southerndown based artist Mark Youd began work on a project inspired by a new model, and a body of work inspired by this sitter resulted. The fruits of that session form his latest exhibition which was unveiled in a Caerphilly gallery this week. Mark Youd says he hesitates to call himself a portrait…
Councils are spending more than £14.5m a year on providing ‘facility time’ for trade union reps, according to new research by the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA). The campaign group said the average local authority spent 0.10% of its wage bill on subsidising the work of trade unions, with at least 371 full-time staff members working for trade…
Spring is in the air and the weather is finally getting warmer, so what better time to get your children away from the games console and into the fresh air? Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is helping to do just that by introducing a free rod licence for 12 to 16 year-olds, to encourage more young people…
The conditions clearly say, “It has also specified that HGV movements associated with construction activities and deliveries to the site will take place between 09.30 – 12.00 and 13.00 – 15.00 hours. The Transportation Section is satisfied that this effectively prohibits large deliveries /construction traffic during the critical school run hours.” We are informed…
