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Category: News

How ‘Planet Earth’-style cameras are helping council catch fly-tippers

Friday, November 17, 2023Monday, November 20, 2023

An “encouraging” reduction in fly-tipping is partly down to Caerphilly Council deploying technology normally used to record wild animals.

Caerphilly Miners Centre praised by climate change minister after visit

Friday, November 17, 2023Friday, November 17, 2023

Julie James MS visited the centre on Thursday November 16, and said it was “vital” that projects like the Miners Centre are invested in.

How the Welsh language is being promoted to help migrants feel at home

Friday, November 17, 2023Friday, November 17, 2023

The Welsh Government published its plans to turn Wales into a “nation of sanctuary” in 2019.

MS says she will not be “bullied and intimidated” after being targeted by protesters

Friday, November 17, 2023Friday, November 17, 2023

South Wales East MS Natasha Asghar’s talk to Cardiff University students on November 13 was disrupted by protesters.

Loophole could allow candidates outside of Wales to stand in Senedd elections

Friday, November 17, 2023Friday, November 17, 2023

Under the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) bill, anyone on the electoral register in Wales would qualify to be a candidate. 

New electronic prescription service to be rolled out across Wales in new year

Friday, November 17, 2023Friday, November 17, 2023

The new service will allow GPs to send prescriptions online to the patient’s choice of pharmacy, without the need for a paper form.

An “unrealistic” amendment not a ‘real solution’: Borough MPs respond to Gaza ceasefire vote

Thursday, November 16, 2023Thursday, November 16, 2023

Caerphilly county borough MPs respond to a vote on an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after a motion was tabled by the SNP. 

Gwent’s police and crime commissioner Jeff Cuthbert to step down at next election

Thursday, November 16, 2023Thursday, November 16, 2023

Labour’s Jeff Cuthbert has been in the post for seven years, having won the elections in 2016 and 2021.

Single-use vapes should be banned, Senedd told

Thursday, November 16, 2023Thursday, December 7, 2023

Jenny Rathbone MS said raspberry and bubble gum-flavoured vapes are being targeted at school children as if they were sweets.

Woman hospitalised with “life-threatening” injuries following Risca collision

Thursday, November 16, 2023Thursday, November 16, 2023

Gwent Police are appealing for information after a 91-year-old woman was taken to hospital following a collision in Risca.

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