Welsh public services and councils are facing staggering budget gaps - and this is a direct result of the cruel austerity agenda pursued by the Tories, and as yet unabandoned by Keir Starmer.

What's more, Wales's economic woes are compounded by the disastrously unfair funding formula in which we're trapped - the Barnett stranglehold in which our economy is gripped.

Those cuts, at a local level, are having disastrous consequences, and some of the decisions being made will have long-lasting implications. I've called on Caerphilly County Council to think again when it comes to their proposed cuts to Meals on Wheels, and for the council to secure the future of Llancaiach Fawr Manor House and Blackwood Miners........

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