Literature Wales is pleased to announce this year's judging panel. The English language judges are Sandeep Parmar, poet and Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University, Louise Holmwood Marshall, Head of the English and Creative Writing Department of Aberystwyth University and novelist and Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London Russell…
17 April 2019 Wales legends Ryan Giggs and Loren Dykes are urging people across Wales to nominate their local grassroots football heroes. The nominations for the 2019 McDonald’s FAW Grassroots Football Awards are now open. The awards shine the spotlight on the army of grassroots volunteers and football clubs all over Wales, celebrating the impact…
The Council will undertake five culvert repair schemes over the coming months in order to ensure their structural integrity and reduce the risk of flooding in local communities. The first project in Treherbert is now underway. Alleviating the risk of flooding in local communities is a priority for the Council, and an investment of £550,000…
Planning » Application Summary Help with this page(opens in a new window) 18/0923/13 | Residential development including landscaping, drainage, access improvements and other associated infrastructure. | LAND OFF B4275, ABERAMAN, ABERDARE, CF44 6LJ https://planning.rctcbc.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=externalDocuments&keyVal=_RHOND_DCAPR_53315 Details Summary Further Information Contacts Important Dates Publicity (0) Constraints (4) Related Cases (0) Documents The proposals are submitted in outline form with all matters…
Westdale Services Limited has today been sentenced after a 12-year-old boy slipped off a scaffold ladder, falling approximately 10 metres. Cardiff Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 6 May 2017, two boys were able to climb the rungs of a ladder within scaffolding erected by Westdale Services Limited at Southville Flats, St David’s Road, Cwmbran, by…
Research for the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) shows that 300,000 more children will live in poverty in the UK because of the two-child limit, by the time Universal Credit is fully rolled out. CPAG says that the policy breaches the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), because it no longer…
Serious accidents are one of the most common causes of hospital admissions and a major cause of death for children. Child Safety Week aims to reduce the numbers of children seriously injured or killed, by supporting anyone working with children and families to understand and deliver effective accident prevention messages. This is why it is…
Transport for Wales has awarded law firm DLA Piper a contract worth an estimated £500,000 to provide expert legal and regulatory support and advice on matters relating to the bus industry. The support and advice services to be provided to TfW and the Welsh Ministers are to include: advice on options for bus service review…
The Welsh government should be proactive in developing a jurisdictional solution to the accommodation of Welsh law and the distinct needs of Wales without creating barriers for the operation of justice or the ability of practitioners to work across England and Wales, the Law Society has said. In a submission to the Commission on Justice…
In one of the largest fly-tipping cases ever investigated within the County Borough, Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has successfully prosecuted two local men who illegally dumped large amounts of household and commercial waste. Ronnie Junior Jones, aged 29, of Maxwell Street, Ferndale, and Luke Samuel Davies, aged 27, of Brithweunydd Road, Trealaw, were sentenced at…
