The £2 million package is a mix of grant and loan funding from Visit Wales and the Welsh Government’s Targeted Regeneration Investment programme, which will provide £100 million of capital support across Wales over 3 years for regeneration projects. Newport City Council has worked in close collaboration with Garrison Barclay Estates (GBE), who has taken…
DVSA has launched a new free service to allow motorists to replace a lost, stolen or damaged MOT certificate. The service can be used to get MOT certificate copies for cars, vans and motorcycles. Copies for lorries, buses and coaches will be available later in 2019. What you need The service can be found here. You'll…
In our data-driven world, it’s more important than ever to know who is using people’s personal data, and why. Today the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is launching the ‘Be Data Aware’ campaign to help people understand how organisations might be using their data to target them online, and how people can control who is targeting them. This…
“Illustrating the significance of the stories of Wales to a global readership.” Literature Wales has today announced which titles have been shortlisted for both the English and Welsh-language Wales Book of the Year Awards 2019. The Award is presented annually to the best works in the fields of creative writing and literary criticism in…
Darren Millar AM has repeated his calls for the Welsh Government to urgently address staffing shortages in the Welsh NHS which are putting patients at risk. Commenting on today’s news of a Royal Collage warning over the shortage of consultant paediatricians in Wales, acting Welsh Conservative Health spokesperson, Mr Millar, said: “Time after time we hear that…
As part of an investigation following a disturbance which occurred in Pontypridd on Friday, May 3, 18 year-old Kyle Townsend from Aberdare has been charged with breaching his criminal behaviour order.He will appear at Merthyr Magistrates Court on Friday, 10 May, 2019.The investigation into the incident is ongoing – officers expect to make further arrests…
Shadow Environment Minister and South Wales Central AM, Andrew RT Davies, has written to the First Minister calling on him to intervene and make an urgent decision on the environmental impact assessment for Barry Incinerator. In February 2018, Labour’s Environment Minister, Hannah Blythyn AM, claimed the Welsh Government was minded to order an EIA for…
About Glenboi Primary School Glenboi Primary school is in the village of Glenboi, near Mountain Ash in Rhondda, Cynon Taf local authority. There are 134 pupils on roll, including 23 pupils in the nursery. There is a learning resource base for pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties at the school, one single age, full time…
Welsh hospitals are understaffed and overstretched. Over two-thirds of trainees report regular and frequent rota gaps, almost one-third of advertised consultant posts go unfilled, and absence due to sickness is rising. As 120 doctors and health professionals gather today (Thursday 09 May) in Deeside for the Royal College of Physician’s (RCP) second north Wales conference, the college has…
All authorities bar one (Denbighshire) responded to the request. The figures showed: £113,948,515 was spent on agency supply staff in the above period; Two authorities, Neath Port Talbot and Newport, won’t payroll supply teachers directly, forcing schools to go to agencies. In Wrexham, supply teachers can only be paid directly in certain circumstances; Eight authorities…
