How is The Labour government doing as Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs? At First Minister’s Questions (FMQs) today, the Leader of the Welsh Conservatives put to the First Minister the latest labour market statistics for Wales. Unemployment has risen from 3.8% in June 2024 to 5.6% (a 47% increase). The Welsh Conservatives…
Natasha Asghar MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education, has criticised Labour’s decision to end the 80% business rates relief for charity-run private schools, describing it as contributing to a “triple whammy” of higher taxes. Commenting, Natasha Asghar MS, said: “Labour is hitting independent schools with a triple whammy of higher taxes. “After already…
FB: This building like Aberdare was paid for by minors 6pence old money . Then donated to the both hospitals by N.C.B. I can’t understand how both buildings weren’t listed. I can understand Cynon/ Dare Wards Day Unit Aberdare as they were built 1990’s . I worked in Mountain Ash for a few months. That…
FB Post: I think this is important for people to be aware: DataMap Wales highlights the coal tip behind Conway Drive/Llangorse Road moved from category B to C in April 2024 and by October 2024, moved again to category D (which is the worse). Category D is defined as a tip with the potential to…
Save the School Transport RCT group, a FB account trying to inform and educate parents about what this council has done, cuts to school transport for your kids this September. Home to School Transport changes agreed, said a council spokesman notice not one councillor would put his/her name to this decision because they know it…
Aberdare Town had a regeneration scheme, but the cracks are showing from the lack of investment in the Aberdare town Centre The Council is completing an engagement exercise to help inform and develop a Tonypandy Town Centre Strategy – which will set out an ambitious and clear vision for the town, and be the blueprint…
The £6M development of Pontypridd’s M&S site for a council that keeps saying it has no money so up the council tax. Phase Two of the Council’s consultation for its 2025/26 Budget has now started. It will focus on a draft Strategy that has been put forward by officers, and residents can now have their…
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has been contributing to the Cardiff Capital Region City Deal since its inception in 2016. The council initially committed £79,037 towards the development of the City Deal proposal in 2015. Since then, the council has been making annual contributions to the City Deal investment fund.According to the council’s financial records, Rhondda Cynon…
Former Labour First Minister, now Finance Minister, Mark Drakeford has said that Wales was “over hospitalised”, just as the latest NHS statistics for Wales revealed an increase in the NHS treatment waiting list to 802,268 pathways, the highest figure on record, for the tenth month in a row. Drakeford said on a podcast that “If…
The Maerdy, once known as Little Moscow, is a Labour stronghold when you travel through the Rhondda Fach, you have to ask the question of why you have two Labour councillors, Susan Morgans and Jayne Smith, why did you not push for the continuance of the original proposed Bypass Road from Porth to Maerdy. It’s…
