Commenting on the news that health chiefs have warned recruiting GPs was “a national problem” and that surgeries were “withering”, Welsh Conservative Shadow Health Minister, Russell George MS said: “Our Welsh NHS is critically understaffed due to 25 years of Labour under resourcing our health service with real terms cuts to fund their vanity projects….
Commenting on the news that councils across Wales face bankruptcy if they do not receive more funding or make drastic cuts to some of their most important services, Welsh Conservative Leader, Andrew RT Davies MS said: “It is a very real concern that councils in Wales are struggling to deliver essential services. “As we know,…
Today, Macmillan Cancer Support is launching an emergency appeal as it warns that thousands of people with cancer in Wales are in financial distress, with the hidden costs of a cancer diagnosis, coupled with the impact of the cost-of-living crisis, pushing people to ‘extreme measures’. The leading cancer support charity has seen a worrying rise…
South Wales Police officers are continuing to investigate the disappearance of Ricky Harris from Aberdare, who is missing. Specialist resources have been deployed and will continue to do so in the Aberdare area to search for Ricky. Ricky, aged 31, was last seen on CCTV at around 2.20pm on Saturday afternoon, 18th November, in Maes-Y-Deri,…
Responding to her spokesperson questions to Labour’s Education Minister Jeremy Miles, Welsh Conservative Shadow Education Minister, Laura Anne Jones MS said: “With head teachers in Wales currently describing the current financial difficulties as “frightening”, I challenged the Minister on his government’s record of cutting the education budget. “The Minister constantly shrugged off blame and failed…
Morriston Hospital in the Swansea Bay area has been escalated to the highest level of alert, a Business Continuity Incident (BCI) has been issued following “extreme pressures in our emergency and unscheduled care services.” During a Business Continuity Incident or ‘black alert’, the health board diverts staff from non-acute areas of healthcare, they also enlist…
Responding to her spokesperson questions to Labour’s Climate Change Minister in the Senedd today, Welsh Conservative Shadow Climate Change Minister, Janet Finch-Saunders MS said: “We all know about the housing crisis in Wales and we all know that to address this crisis more homes must be built. Labour is currently building half the number of…
Photograph: Aberdare Upper Village Turnpike House, bottom of Cwmdare Hill Trecynon From 1652 in England and 1752 in Wales, Acts of Parliament enabled committees of the gentry and others to improve either a particular road or all the main roads in a county. These committees were known as Turnpike Trusts because a pike (or pole),…
A skip company has been fined £7000 and the company director given a 12-week custodial sentence for the for the illegal depositing of waste at Barnhill Industrial Estate near Blackwood, following an investigation by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Digaway Limited and the sole company director, Mr Daniel Jenkins, were found guilty of depositing controlled waste…
Tuesday, 21 November, 2023 we saw a key milestone happen at PCH as the larger of the two cranes has done its part for the refurbishment project and been dismantled. Take a look at the time-lapse video here. The cranes were introduced in June 2022 to facilitate the construction and fit-out of the new plant rooms…
