Photographs taken this morning in Groes Faen Rhondda Cynon Taff highlighted frustration for residents in the area, the photographs clearly show signs for both 20mph and 30mph on the same stretch of road, causing confusion for drivers, especially considering the road has an average speed camera at the entrance and exit road to the village….
Welsh Labour politician slammed for ‘deplorable and shocking’ bTB comments In the Senedd Chamber this week, Labour MS for Mid and West Wales, Joyce Watson, angered Wales’ farming community by saying: “If we’re talking about a rethink, Minister, have you looked at any farms that have perpetual TB status, and have you considered the question…
The latest international inbound visits and spend to Wales figures from the ONS for the first two quarters of 2023 (January to June) have been released. The figures reveal that there were 403,000 inbound visits to Wales, down 12% on the same period in 2019. £188 million was spent by visitors and while this was…
Late one evening in July 2022 a horrendous domestic incident happened in the Penrhys area, when Jonathan Woods, 40 assaulted his partner. He knocked her to the ground and stamped on her face, leaving the victim helpless and fighting for her life on the side of the road. The only witness to this horrific assault…
Elizabeth England, of Five Paper Chambers, runs through the key points of the latest Court of Appeal Japanese Knotweed case. The Court of Appeal has this week has considered the case of Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council CA-2022-001778. In 2015 Mr Churchill purchased a house in Merthyr Tydfil, and according to his claim,…
Welsh local authorities have made progress in the administration of homelessness assessments but there are opportunities for further improvement, the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales has said. The Ombudsman’s comments came in a follow-up report to its ‘own initiative’ Investigation, Homelessness Reviewed: an open door to positive change, undertaken in 2021. The 2021 report examined whether local authorities…
