Gareth Davies MS, Member of the Welsh Parliament for the Vale of Clwyd and Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Social Services has reflected on the rise in anti-social behaviour since the implementation of the smacking ban. “This law, this encroachment on the lives of Welsh families is emblematic of the overbearing nanny state in operation,…
Celebrating the Success Of Our Towns Mountain Ash will receive £10,000 in investment Pontypridd will receive £20,000 in investment Mountain Ash and Pontypridd town centres have been crowned winners at the prestigious national ‘Let’s Celebrate Towns’ Awards, held in London, ranking them among the top eight towns in the UK. The awards, sponsored by Visa,…
The Court of Appeal has overturned lower court rulings that diminution in value in Japanese knotweed cases is irrecoverable economic loss and ordered a council in Wales to pay £4,900 in damages to a property owner. The appellant in Davies v Bridgend County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 80) purchased a house in Nant-y-moel in 2004 as…
The Aberfan disaster was the collapse of a National Coal Board spoil tip near the village of Aberfan on the morning of 21 October 1966. A spoil tip is a pile of waste rock and soil removed during coal mining. A tribunal tasked with investigating the Aberfan disaster published its findings on August 3, 1967….
