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For the past two years, Children in Wales has published a report, Child and Family Poverty in Wales: A snapshot of key issues raised by families (2014) (2015). We are repeating the survey for 2016 to give us an up to date picture of poverty in Wales and to identify trends over the three year…

On your Marks, Get Set…..Go! With four months to go until the world-famous Nos Galan Road Races, online registration opened 10am today (Tuesday, September 6).  Nos Galan Road Races: Online Registration This year marks the 58th anniversary of the New Year’s Eve event in Mountain Ash, and entering the races is now easier than ever…

Recent figures have revealed that over two-thirds of all VAT/PAYE registered companies (68%) in Wales are now designated as in a Welsh Government ‘priority sector’. Welsh Conservatives have accused the Welsh Government of “spreading the jam too thinly”, while the policy has also come under fire from business leaders in the past for including too…

The Confederation of British Industry in Wales is warning that traffic congestion across the country could be starving the economy of jobs. Meanwhile, the Campaign for Better Transport has complained about a focus on infrastructure projects linking England with Wales, often at the expense of developing transport inside Wales. See original report by ITV Wales, HERE….

A mix of World and European champions, along with first-time Paralympians, will be aiming to keep up a proud history of elite success for Welsh disabled athletes at the Paralympic Games in Rio. Twenty-six Welsh athletes have been selected as part of the 264 ParalympicsGB squad, making up a significant 10% of the Great Britain…

Some salmon stocks in Wales are facing an ‘unprecedented’ threat after a dramatic decrease in the numbers of salmon fry in several Welsh rivers. Routine monitoring by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) officers revealed fry numbers (young salmon hatched in the spring of 2016) at critically low levels on the Usk, Tywi and Clwyd in most…

Older people living at independent living schemes in the Rhondda Cynon Taff are celebrating after £2,000 of funding from the Big Lottery Fund Celebrate programme. Six out of ten people surveyed, by YouGov for the Big Lottery Fund, say they cannot remember ever coming together to celebrate with their community. The Big Lottery Fund want to…

What effect have the Government's austerity measures had on people's health? For doctors working in deprived areas, the answers are of great concern What does austerity mean to you? Big cuts in public spending, perhaps. A tactic to balance the books in an economic crisis? Or a welfare state so trimmed that its benefits no…

A Written Assembly Question (WAQ) by the Leader of the Welsh Conservatives has revealed that Labour’s First Minister has once again opted to fly trans-Atlantic from Heathrow, rather than from the airport his government owns in Cardiff. Carwyn Jones is in America this week to “sell Wales to the world like never before”, but has…