A serial fly-tipper has been given a community order and fined over £1000 for blighting the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf. Mr Jeremy Boyes, who is aged 55 from Penrhiwceiber was caught red handed on a number of occasions when he decided to fly-tip items near to where he lived. Mr Boyes turned…
A Finance Committee report published today into the Welsh Government’s incoming ‘visitor levy’, included testimonies and views expressing considerable concerns with the bill, from organisations such as ScoutsCymru, Wales Tourism Alliance, the Federation of Small Businesses and others. The principle of a tourism tax enjoys support of the Welsh Labour Government, Plaid Cymru and the…
Corridor care in Welsh emergency departments has become “endemic”, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has said. A survey carried out this January and February identified all 12 of Wales’ emergency departments as treating patients in corridors and waiting areas. https://www.rcn.org.uk/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Documents/Publications/2025/January/011-958.pdf Commenting, James Evans MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social…
The latest NHS statistics for Wales revealed NHS treatment waiting list remain at 796,800 pathways. Two-year waits are 21,087 in Wales, compared with only 139 in England. The Labour Health Minister, now First Minister, Eluned Morgan promised to eliminate these waits by March 2023 and again by March 2024, but failed to meet these targets. Eluned Morgan…
The latest labour market statistics for Wales, covering January 2025, indicates that unemployment remains stagnant and the highest in the UK at 5.4% and has been for six consecutive months. Wales’ employment rate remains the lowest of all of the UK nations and regions and is falling, whereas the UK rate continues to rise. Welsh…
The Open Spaces Society are delighted that the Welsh Government will introduce provisions before the Senedd to repeal the 2026 cut-off date for public rights of way. Speaking in the Senedd on 3 March [1], Julie James, Counsel General and Minister for Delivery, said that the Government would bring forward amendments to the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales)…
Cynon Valley MS is delighted that the Welsh Government is bringing in a new £1 bus fare for everyone up to age 21. In September children who live 3 miles from their comprehensive schools and colleges will have to either walk 6 miles or catch a bus. I you are one of the lucky ones…
The Welsh Government has asked that certain provisions within the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, including those in relation to children in secure accommodation and children not in school, be applied to Wales in the same way as England. In a written cabinet statement published last week (10 March), Lynne Neagle, Cabinet Secretary for Education, and Dawn…
The Upper Tribunal has in part allowed a council’s appeal against a decision by the Education Tribunal for Wales in relation to the naming of a school in a child’s Individual Development Plan, in the first case to have been brought under the new 2018 Act regime for Additional Learning Provision in Wales. In Cardiff Council…
A new streamlined process for environmental regulations will be implemented for major projects and habitats regulations concerning bats are to be reviewed, the Government has said. The news comes as part of plans to overhaul the regulatory system, cut red tape and boost infrastructure building announced by the Treasury today (17 March). In a policy paper,…
