A Welsh Government review of learner transport has been extended to consider the distances when children aged 4-16 become eligible to receive free travel to school.
The review initially focused...
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Two charged following Barry Taser incident
TWO people have been charged following a disturbance...
Swansea Palace Theatre conversion and restoration plans unveiled
PLANS for the restoration and conversion of Swansea's historic Palace Theatre building have been unveiled as an eye-catching new six-storey home to exciting young tech and creative...
Ceredigion chosen for fibre broadband pilot scheme
CEREDIGION has been chosen as a trial area for a UK Government initiative aimed at increasing fibre broadband in rural areas. The demand for fast, reliable internet connectivity has never been so...
Welsh heritage sector unlikely to reach pre-pandemic income levels for years
THE Senedd's Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee is launching a report highlighting the crisis in the heritage sector. The Committee is calling for the Welsh Government to urge...
25,000 panels for new solar farm near Morriston Hospital
MORE farmland in Swansea is to make way for another solar farm to boost renewable energy production.
Up to 25,000 panels will be built at a farm off Rhydypandy Road, north of Morriston...
Qualifications Wales indicates examination grades in Wales will be lowered
WITH examination results expected out soon in Wales it is projected that thousands of estimated examination grades will be lowered to account for teachers being "generous" and inconsistency across...
Aberaeron harbour walls in “desperate state of repair” says councillor
THE next stage of work to save Aberaeron harbour walls in a “desperate state of repair” and a pier “held up by fresh air alone” is underway.
Ceredigion County Council has gone out to...
RSPCA re-issue warning about returning stranded mammals to sea as dolphin dies
RSPCA has issued a reminder to the “well-meaning” public not to seek to refloat beached or stranded cetaceans or aquatic mammals.
A sub-adult dolphin – approximately two...
Quarter of houses sold in Wales last year either second homes or buy to let
A quarter of the houses sold in Wales in the financial year 2019/20 were either as second homes or 'buy to let'. In some parts of Wales, however, the figure reached over a third of the total...