A breakdown of Peter Perry’s salary and bonuses at Welsh Water over the past few years: 2022-2023: Base salary: £332,000 Bonus: £0 (Perry voluntarily waived his bonus for this year) 2021-2022: Total remuneration: £892,000, which included: Total Fixed Pay: £652,000 (including pension and pension accrual of £337,000) Total Variable Pay (bonus): £240,000 2020-2021: Base salary:…
In just 24 hours, the NHS touches countless lives – within hospital and clinic walls and in the community. From sunrise to the quiet hours of the night, our staff work tirelessly to provide expert care, comfort, and hope. Patients arrive in need of urgent treatment, planned care, or long-term support, while families and loved…
How and where are Rhondda Cynon Taf Council spending your money? They are cutting basic services to pay for vanity projects. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Tax proposals RCT residents are struggling- we are paying MORE for LESS services. RCT financial officers put forward the recommendation for a 4.5% increase -The Labour Cabinet have lifted the…
We need an election in Wales, whose turn is it to back Labour up once again, keeping Labour in control of Wales, so much for opposition parties. The Welsh Labour Government’s Final Budget for the 2025-26 financial year will be voted on in the Senedd tomorrow (Tuesday 4th March). Labour has no majority in the…
Help Us Hold Rhondda Cynon Taf Council to Account: Freedom of Information Request on Councillors’ Expenses At AberdareOnline, we believe in transparency and accountability in local government. That’s why we’re asking you, the residents of Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT), to help us uncover councillors’ remunerations and expenses for attending Outside Bodies. Outside Bodies are organisations…
As Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is part of the quango, Cardiff Capital Region, should the council issue a statement regarding the recent judgment and the serious breach in a procurement challenge concerning the award of a £40 million contract for the demolition of Aberthaw Power Station? Cardiff Capital Region has conceded liability, causation and sufficiently…
Cash-strapped council set date for the £6M development of Pontypridd’s M&S site FB: What a load of rubbish spending all that money on that. There was nothing wrong with the shops that were there before. Plus, who wants to come to town when there is hardly any shops to come to. Something needs to be…
If you live on a social housing estate where the bags are piled high, you can put out as many black bags as you like, is this a fair system? FB: Unbelievable mess at Maerdy Mountain, is this how people behave these days, I’m in a wheelchair and still volunteer with a charity doing litter…
Daniel Grist, 41, had just collected his children from school before collapsing in the family kitchen in the late afternoon. Experiencing very few symptoms, the father-of-two went into cardiac arrest in front of his wife Danielle, who called 999. A Welsh Ambulance Service call handler guided her through cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before ambulance crews arrived….
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…
