Charity sees a rise in crisis calls as thousands of people with cancer in Wales ‘struggle to survive due to devastating financial hardship’

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…

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South Wales Police officers are continuing to investigate the disappearance of Ricky Harris from Aberdare

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,…

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Welsh Labour refuses to take responsibility for the education funding crisis

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…

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 Labour-run Welsh NHS and a hospital under pressure with over 80 acutely unwell emergency patients waiting for beds

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…

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Labour’s return to the Turnpike or toll road introduced in 1752 was backed up by Labour’s lapdogs

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),…

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