Concerns over plans to extend a quarry near Gelligaer have been raised in Cardiff Bay, as the Senedd debated calls for a mandatory 1,000-metre buffer zone around all quarries.
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Newport hailed ‘a city on the rise’
Senedd Members hailed Newport as a city on the rise – economically, socially and culturally – with so much to offer the whole of Wales.
‘Crying shame’ or ‘very positive’ – what does the future hold for Llancaiach Fawr?
The Grade-I listed manor, near Nelson, has been “mothballed” and on the market since January, following a Caerphilly County Borough Council cost-cutting decision to end its annual subsidy for the site.
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Taxpayers hit with £5.25m bill for botched power station contract
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Cardiff region city deal ‘on course to create 26,000 jobs’
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Third edition of free poetry booklet set to launch
The third edition of poetry booklet, Tatws Siôn Cent, is set to be launched in Senghenydd over the weekend.
‘No targets, no teeth and no accountability’: ministers’ disability rights plan criticised
Campaigners warned it will be “impossible” to hold the Welsh Government to account on progress against its disabled people’s rights plan due to a lack of concrete targets.
NHS Wales to remove no-show patients from waiting lists
Jeremy Miles warned more than 700,000 appointments are missed each year, with 14% of all outpatient appointments lost because people do not turn up or cannot attend.
Man arrested after bomb hoax in Blackwood
A 49-year-old Blackwood man was arrested after a bomb hoax which saw police cordon the area off and evacuate residents from their homes.