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nation.cymru | Emily Price
News 05 May 2025 Dale Spridgeon – Local democracy reporterBeachgoers are leaving “human waste” in gardens and jet-skiers were “splashing about under the influence of alcohol”, claim locals opposed to a beachside café being granted a licence to serve alcohol.
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nation.cymru | Emily Price
News 05 May 2025 Richard Evans, Local democracy reporterA councillor has slammed a local authority for sticking by its decision to introduce parking charges on a promenade. Conwy Council will now charge motorists on the promenade stretch between ‘The Arches’ and ‘Rotary Way’. Councillors claimed the decision will affect those exercising, the elderly and the disabled.
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nation.cymru | Emily Price
News 05 May 2025 Ted Peskett, Local democracy reporterA controversial set of standards that councillors were asked to sign up to years ago has been deemed unnecessary by a city council’s chief legal advisor. The ‘Cardiff Undertaking’, adopted by Cardiff Council in 2004 and amended over the years, has raised concerns among some councillors, with one local representative calling some of its points “alarming”.
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nation.cymru | Emily Price
News 05 May 2025 Richard Youle, Local democracy reporter Spitfire flights are coming to a council-owned airport in Wales in a fortnight’s time. The famous fighter plane with its rumbling Rolls-Royce Merlin engine will take to the skies for paying customers at Swansea Airport on May 11 and five dates in June, July, August and September.
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nation.cymru | Emily Price
News 04 May 2025 A wool art exhibition celebrating VE Day has been unveiled at Wonderwool Wales – the award-winning show that celebrates all that’s great about Welsh wool and natural fibres. The popular two-day event was held at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells last weekend. The ‘Britain at War’ exhibition – The Longest Yarn 2 – had nine panels for its launch but will grow to 80 as extra panels are added during a tour of the UK over the coming months.
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nation.cymru | Emily Price
Opinion 03 May 2025 Beccy LeachIt may be a beautiful spring day but while the sun is blazing outside, I’m sipping tea in a dark basement of a coffee shop, with dim artificial light. And yet I choose to do this, saddened that it’s the final time. Why? It’s where I’ve spent thousands of hours over the past eight years or more, socialising in that basement gloom with people who have lit up my life. People who’ve found sanctuary in Wales – and friendship in a Cardiff café.
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nation.cymru | Emily Price
News 03 May 2025 Two Welsh hotel owners have taken on a cycling marathon challenge to raise money to pay for dancers from a small primary school to visit Patagonia. Tony and Donna Cooper-Barney, owners of five star Palé Hall at Llandderfel, near Bala, set off on Saturday on a 423-kilometre ride from Cannes in France to Pisa in Italy, which they expect to complete this weekend. Their mission is to raise £10,000 for Ysgol Betws Gwerful Goch, near Corwen in memory of their late son, James.
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nation.cymru | Emily Price
News 02 May 2025 Lewis Smith – Local Democracy reporterReform UK have won a seat on a second Welsh council following a by-election in south Wales. The by-election was held for the Pyle, Kenfig Hill and Cefn Cribwr ward in Bridgend on May 1, 2025, after the resignation of former Labour councillor Mike Kearn. The vacant seat was won by newly elected Reform councillor, Owain Clatworthy, 20, who clinched it with a narrow margin of only 30 votes.
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nation.cymru | Emily Price
News 02 May 2025 Transport for Wales (TfW) has launched a new online brand shop offering merchandise designed to celebrate the beauty of Wales while supporting the transport network. The shop offers a collection of items from drinkware and prints to postcards and souvenirs designed to capture the essence of travel across the network. Many items in TfW’s brand shop are made in Wales, allowing customers to support local businesses while taking home a piece of their journey.
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nation.cymru | Emily Price
News 02 May 2025 Sir Keir Starmer has defended taking “tough decisions” after Labour figures hit out at the party’s record in government in the wake of local election results in England. Reform UK’s Sarah Pochin beat Sir Keir Starmer’s candidate Karen Shore by six votes in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, taking the seat which Labour won with a majority of almost 14,700 less than a year ago.
