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£58m active travel funding announced by Welsh Government

The funding will go towards creating 37 new active travel routes, as well as the redevelopment of a further 22.

MS Julie Morgan, Deputy Minister for Social Services, announced that the programme reached 3,178 children in its first phase.

The new approach includes a new remission service for newly diagnosed people who may be able to reverse the condition.

A new bill being put to Senedd Members has been hailed as an “important step” towards achieving renewable energy targets.

Conservative Senedd Member Natasha Asghar has not made her party’s three-person shortlist to challenge Labour’s Sadiq Khan next year.

Ynys Mon Senedd Member Rhun ap Iorwerth is currently the only confirmed candidate for the leadership and is expected to take on the role.

Thirty million pounds of Welsh Government money is being put into new programmes to help Welsh organisations develop new products and services.

Wales’ education minister, Jeremy Miles, has called for a “national effort” to tackle falling school attendance figures.

A new law banning a range of single-use plastics in Wales has been given Royal Assent.

The Welsh Government funding will be given to local authorities and follows on the £26m already invested in charging infrastructure since 2021.