As part of the wider £1.66M South Wales Metro project for improvements to Upper Boat Gyratory and funding from Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s £5.89M Highways Investment Scheme, essential structural maintenance works have now began to the major bridge over the River Taf leading to the A473. In order to carry out this work safely the…
Exciting news as major scheme begins at Upper Boat, Pontypridd. A multi-million-pound programme of investment is set to take place to improve transport links in the Pontypridd and wider Taff Ely area. In autumn 2013 the Welsh Government confirmed plans for a South Wales Metro system that will provide improvements to bus and rail links…
The only party committed to protecting the NHS budget in Wales has called on Welsh Labour to respond to Jeremy Corbyn’s criticism of health funding here. Labour’s new socialist chief recently told a hall of supporters that ‘the Welsh NHS is clearly affected by funding’ (Cardiff’s Mercure Hotel, August 11th). Last week his…
Get your eyes checked – urges National Eye Health Week Look after your eyes by going for a regular sight test will be the main message of this year’s National Eye Health Week (21-27 September 2015). Now in its sixth year, National Eye Health Week brings organisations and health professionals from across Wales…
Literature Wales, the national company for the promotion and development of literature, has announced that the next round of Writers’ Bursaries are now open for submission. The bursaries, which are funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Wales, enable writers of all genres and backgrounds to take time out to write. Since…
Despite the information put out by RCT Council which stated that the Education Minister would have the final decision on whether to create through schools in the area it appears that is not the case. Welsh Government have put the ball firmly back in the court of the Council to make the decision on the…
The Welsh Books Council, in partnership with Mewn Cymeriad, will celebrate the life and work of Roald Dahl. To mark 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl, this Sunday (13 September) the Welsh Books Council, in partnership with Mewn Cymeriad, will announce that they will be celebrating the life and work of the…
A Tylorstown father whose life was saved by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Leisure staff, using equipment that was on site thanks to a pioneering partnership with the Welsh Ambulance Service (WAS) was on hand this week to see that vital partnership extended. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Leisure Services has a successful partnership with the Welsh…
Coverage of national and local politics in Wales could be greatly eroded under plans by Trinity Mirror to introduce click-through targets for its journalists, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have warned. Plans revealed by Media Wales’ National Union of Journalists branch are to give individual journalists targets for the number of website clicks achieved for their…
A protein found in deposits in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease may have been passed on via injections of human growth hormone, finds a study published in this week's Nature. The protein beta-amyloid was observed in seven of the eight cases examined, suggesting that they may have gone on to develop Alzheimer's disease had they…
