Diabetes UK Cymru has launched its manifesto for the Senedd elections asking candidates to deliver change for people living with diabetes in Wales. Wales has the highest prevalence of diabetes in the UK. Diabetes UK estimates there are around 275,000 people living with diabetes in Wales, that’s around 1 in 13 people and the…
They say a week is a long time in politics, which makes twenty-two years feel like a lifetime. It’s easy to forget – even for someone of my vintage – that when the first Welsh Assembly Elections were held back in 1999, Westlife were top of the charts; Scott Gibbs had not long broken English…
Drugs and cash were seized in a day of action in the Rhondda valley on Thursday (22 April). Officers executed two early morning warrants in Ferndale, one in Parry Street and one in East Road, as they acted on information from the community. In total, four men were arrested and one woman was cautioned. Three…
The controversial plan to double the height of a waste energy plant’s chimney stack in the Cynon Valley has been rejected by the Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Planning Committee well they couldn’t do anything else if they wanted to be re-elected next year the committee refused against officer recommendations because of the visual impact it…
A culvert replacement scheme will begin next month at Bronallt Terrace in Abercwmboi, after the Council awarded Calibre Contracting Ltd. with the contract for the works. The scheme is due to start from the week commencing Monday, 17th May and is anticipated to last for a period of six weeks, subject to favourable weather and ground…
The Secretary of State for Wales will today visit a South Wales haulage company to emphasise the importance of the next Welsh Government delivering the M4 Relief Road. As part of plans to build a more prosperous Wales, the Welsh Conservatives have revealed an ambitious £2 billion infrastructure plan which will include the delivery of the…
Residents have been complaining for months about the designated Cwmbach Transport for Wales Car park being used by a vehicle hire company to store vehicles but having visited the site today its not only vans that are stored on the site but several cars. Most of the vehicles have a number of parking tickets on…
Top 100 UK law firm, Hugh James, has advised on the sale of the Sheppard’s pharmacy Group, the largest independent pharmacy group in Wales, to Avicenna Retail Limited. Sheppard’s is a family-owned business, which started in Aberdare by Alan and Jean Sheppard in 1972, and now operates 34 community pharmacies concentrated mainly in the South…
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies will today set out what he will describe as Wales’ “national mission to get the economy on the road to recovery” as the party unveils its manifesto for the upcoming Senedd election. At the heart of the manifesto will be the creation of 65,000 new jobs to power Wales'…
The quick-thinking and calmness of a six-year-old Rhondda Cynon Taf student helped save his mother from choking, and all of his family, friends and teachers are extremely proud of him. Zachary James, a Year 2 learner at Maesybryn Primary School, Llantwit Fardre, saw his mother coughing and struggling to breathe at home. But he immediately…
