Below is taken from AberdareOnline discution boards I have lived and loved living in Aberdare for 50+ years! In all the years I can remember only a Labour MP for the area. I do not know much of politics but wonder why, in all the years of a labour MP, have our fortunes still remained…
After many months reading, meeting and debating, the Wales Book of the Year judges have chosen their nine-strong list of favorites from the books published in 2016, and Literature Wales is delighted to announce that the English-language Short List 2017 is as follows: The Roland Mathias Poetry Award What Possessed Me, John Freeman (Worple) The…
Strictly Come Dancing star Ruth Langsford took a break from the dancefloor to join 3,000 people who united against dementia at an Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk. The Loose Women and ITV This Morning presenter, who lost her dad, Dennis, to dementia, swapped sequins for a blue Alzheimer’s Society t-shirt when she took part in the…
Concerns have been raised over the future for schools and social care in Wales, after comments by the Welsh Local Government Association. However, Welsh Conservatives say the “buck stops” with the Welsh Labour Government – who’ve been furnished with a fiscal framework, new tax powers and a protected block grant in recent years. Shadow Local…
People who believe their care should have been funded by the NHS are being encouraged by the Welsh Government to register their intent to make a claim. Continuing NHS Healthcare is a package of care provided free-of-charge by the NHS for people with complex and primarily health-based needs. This can be provided in a care…
Somerset County Council has paid more than £1.8m to settle a compensation claim arising from an accident involving a pothole in a road. This has emerged from a Freedom of Information request made by a local newspaper. The council said the highest claim it had met over the past three years had been ”£1,836,000 general…
Staff and patients at Pinewood House in Treorchy have created their own special version of Come Dine With Me. The mental health rehabilitation unit in Treorchy played host to an adapted version of the popular television show as patients and members of staff joined in to create three different courses for each other. Each of…
