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Often, finishing a service career is presented as the end of someone’s great story. In reality, it is just the beginning. The Royal British...
Senedd members pressed Wales’ first minister about the Labour UK Government's plans to slash spending on welfare by £4.8 billion a year by the end...
The Welsh Labour Government’s final budget for the coming year was approved by the Senedd at the start of March. The £1.6 billion of extra...
A Caerphilly Council committee has dismissed a call to back ‘Zane’s Law’, a campaign aimed at tightening rules around contaminated land. Plaid...
Next week, Labour’s latest tax hike is set to hit almost every aspect of our society. Not only is this a manifesto breach, but it is completely...
This month, I want to share updates on some of the issues I have been working on here at home in Monmouthshire. One that has caused concern for many...
Local government shake-up plans which could see the Forest of Dean lose its own council have sparked calls for Foresters to stand up for themselves...
Three years ago on 21 March 2022, Wales joined more than 60 nations around the world by making physical punishment of children illegal. The main aim...
Changes to a post-Brexit funding scheme could put 93 council jobs in Caerphilly at risk next year. A new report outlines how Caerphilly County...
Just after 3pm on a Wednesday covered in spring sunshine and the hare is running at Wales’ last greyhound track. Nestled between the Rhymney...
Final plans for 16 new 'super constituencies' have been unveiled ahead of the next Senedd election in a little over a year. The Democracy and...
Last week, I had the great pleasure of inviting and joining Norman Parselle, who runs County in the Community, to No.10 Downing Street for a St....
Plaid Cymru urged the UK Government to pause and review planned changes to inheritance tax for farmers, warning the impact could be destructive in...
A Senedd member shared her own experience of sexual harassment in the workplace as she urged ministers to accelerate action to stamp out the blight on...
Since my last column I have announced my intention to stand in the Newport & Islwyn seat at next year’s Senedd elections. If I am privileged to be...
It is an honour to take part in the judging panel of UNISON’s 2025 Local Service Champions Awards. The awards are part of celebrating local...
Last month, I called on the Welsh Government to help pensioners struggling with the cold because of the decision by ministers in London to cut the...
February was Heart Month, and the British Heart Foundation used the month to urge as many people as possible to learn life-saving CPR. The BHF...
A row has broken out within Reform UK over its stance on immigration after the group’s Welsh spokesperson made several comments that appeared to...
A commission set up to advise on Wales’ infrastructure needs over the next 80 years does not know its own future beyond 2026, a committee heard. ...
Over the past month, it has been a pleasure to continue getting out and about connecting with communities across Caerphilly. We know how important...
Pot-Kettle. The last person in the world who should be commenting on elections is Donald Trump. He accuses Zelenskyy of being a dictator because...
Senedd members urged the Welsh Government to put an end to the "undignified and disrespectful” practice of corridor care in Welsh hospitals. James...
IT'S time the Welsh Government stopped shying away from rent controls. Soaring rents hurt the economy by squeezing household budgets. ...
The Labour Welsh Government is doing its favourite thing and banning things again. It’s bringing forward new nanny-state rules which will mean no...
Plaid Cymru called for the Welsh and UK Governments to condemn US president Donald Trump’s proposals to depopulate Gaza. Rhun ap Iorwerth led a...
Eluned Deluded Morgan thinks that Newport is up & coming. She should have gone to Specsavers. Dave Woolven, Newport.
The first minister Eluned Morgan urgently needs a visit to an optician if she sees Newport as an up-and-coming city with an exciting future with...
Up and Coming? As a 76-year-old native of Newport, far be it for me to disabuse the comments of First Minister Morgan’s assessment of the city’s...
The Welsh Government has announced plans for Wales to become the first nation in the UK to ban greyhound racing. Huw Irranca-Davies, the deputy...
On Friday, February 7, I held a joint advice surgery with Argoed Councillor Walter Williams at the Markham Community House and Centre. Numerous...
Thanks to our Labour Government more than 1,600 former mineworkers in Blaenau Gwent & Rhymney are now receiving an extra £29 a week in their pensions...
Senedd members rejected calls for a Wales-wide independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation by so-called grooming gangs, supporting plans for an...
Child sexual exploitation is a heinous crime and it has been harrowing reading about and listening to details of the sickening abuse inflicted on the...
Couples seeking fertility treatment in Wales face a postcode lottery in terms of access to services, a Senedd member warned. James Evans, the...
Senedd members paid tribute to Dafydd Elis-Thomas following the former Plaid Cymru leader’s death on Friday. Lord Elis-Thomas served as the first...
This was a light but very professional concert that used the movies as the way of presenting some of the most popular music from the operatic...
Street lights in Newport will be turned back on and public toilets will be reopened, the city council leader has pledged. Cllr Dimitri Batrouni...
I would like to thank residents across the Caerphilly County Borough who have taken the time to fill in our budget survey for 2025/26 or took part in...
It was with some excitement that I attended the WNO’s production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on...
A Senedd member accused the Welsh Government of failing to heed repeated warnings after the national museum was forced to close its doors. Heledd...
Senedd members criticised a “power grab” from Westminster, describing plans for UK ministers to make laws in areas already devolved to Wales as an...
As regular readers of this column will know, I really believe good mental health is as critical to our wellbeing as physical health and key to that...
Cleaning up our rivers was one of my key promises when running for MP, and since being elected, I have made this issue one of my top priorities. I...
As a supporter of Brexit, I am willing to concede that it has had a detrimental effect on UK's economic progress, though my reasons for wanting to...
The seemingly never-ending month of January has finally come to a close, and we’ve welcomed in a new month of 2025. We have dived headfirst back...
Local authorities face ongoing uncertainty over who will fund increases to National Insurance contributions, councillors in Newport have heard. The...
The recent comments by the finance minister and former leader, and former minister for health, Mark Drakeford, haven't gone unnoticed. Mr...
THE biggest mission for this Labour government is growth. You might hear politicians use that word a lot and wonder what it really means for your...
Senedd members criticised Cardiff University’s plans to cut 400 jobs and courses including nursing. Members called for ministers to intervene to...