Patients, staff and visitors will be able to park for free at almost every NHS hospital in Wales by the end of 2011, Health Minister Edwina Hart announced this week.
The announcement fulfils the Welsh Assembly Government’s One Wales commitment to reform charges for hospital parking. Wales is the first UK country to make such [...]...
The people behind Y Byd project had some not very nice things to say about Rhodri Glyn Thomas today.
Dyddiol Cyf. the company behind the project to launch a Welsh language daily newspaper today published a News Release today attacking the Welsh Assembly’s Culture Minister.
Rhodri Glyn Thomas’ decision not to give them the grant they wanted - around £1 million - to set up a daily Welsh language newspaper has irritated them. So they’ve hit back hard and low.
They invoke the One Wales political agreement of 27th June 2007 between Labour and Plaid Cymru, claiming that Rhodri Glyn Thomas has reneged on a “promise” within that manifesto.
And they claim (in Welsh) : Rydym fel cenedl yn haeddu papur dyddiol. Mae angen llais newyddiadurol ychwanegol ar Gymru er...
Warnings not to downgrade services have followed the announcement of a review of the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr.
The Health Minister Edwina Hart has announced that Professor Mansel Aylward will conduct a review of services at the hospital. She has now also dissolved the Pontypridd and Rhondda NHS Trust, and North Glamorgan NHS Trust, and confirmed the establishment of a single NHS Trust merging the two bodies. A Shadow Board is due to be in place by December 2007, with full implementation of the Trust merger by the 1st April 2008.
Plaid Assembly Member Leanne Wood has noted the Minister’s review but warned that services for people at the Heads of the Valley must not be downgraded. She commented:
“I have said many times that I will oppose any proposals which would cut...
The UK media's news blackout about the historic Labour-Plaid agreement prompts this posting.
Firstly, some background:
On May 3, Labour achieved its worst percentage result in Wales since 1918 (33%) but managed to hang on to 26 seats out of the 60 Assembly seats.
Plaid gained three AMs to go to 15, Tories 12 (+1), Lib Dems were static on 6 and Trish Law retained her seat as an independent People's Voice representative. Forward Wales AM John Marek lost his seat in Wrexham to Labour.
Prior to the election Labour had made much of the threat of "vote Plaid, get Tory" - i.e. that Plaid would do a deal with the Tories and Lib Dems in the event of a hung Senedd.
This appeared to be happening when the leaders of the three parties agreed a so-called Rainbow alliance. The agreement was...
