The BBC has reported today on the extreme pressures facing staff and patients at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital’s emergency department. The report reflects the Wales-wide figures that show the Labour-run NHS has three-quarters of a million people on an NHS waiting list, the slowest ambulance response times on records, and the worst A&E waits in Britain. Commenting, Welsh Conservative…
The Welsh Ambulance Service have carried out over two million hours of paid overtime in the last five years, it can be revealed. Figures obtained by the Welsh Conservatives show WAST staff work an average of 31,700 hours of overtime every month since April 2017, at a total cost of £61,166,262 – over £10m per…
Cumbria coalmine decision branded ‘dereliction of duty’ The Government’s decision to grant planning permission for a new coalmine in Cumbria is a ‘shocking dereliction of duty’, planners say. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove has given the Whitehaven coalmine – the first new coalmine in the UK in 30 years – the green light despite…
Officers from Tarian, the regional organised crime team for southern Wales, supported by South Wales Police, uncovered a substantial amount of evidence of a large-scale cocaine and heroin network dealing throughout Wales run by Nicholas Gale, 31, and his close associates. Gale used encrypted messaging platforms to speak to both his suppliers and customer base…
