Welsh Government
SWANSEA: Francesca O’Brien takes the council’s £13.7m overspend to the Senedd and asks for the ALN cash to go straight to councils
The Gŵyr Abertawe MS put the spending freeze and the reserves to the education minister on Wednesday. Anna Brychan said…
SCHOOL SWIMMING: Every Year 4 and 5 pupil in Swansea and Carmarthenshire gets 20 hours of lessons from this term
Nofio Ysgol starts this month in nine council areas, with the rest of Wales to follow by 2028. The First…
RAIL CENTRE: £70m spent, not a pound of private money in, and two ministers in two days won’t say if it’s going ahead
The Global Centre of Rail Excellence at Onllwyn was meant to open last year with up to 1,000 jobs. This…
LITTER: You could be fined for rubbish thrown from your car even if you weren’t in it, and fly-tippers could face £5,000
The Welsh Government is asking whether the person a car is registered to should pay for whatever comes out of…
NEW WDA: Capital One co-founder and Airbus boss join ports chief on panel designing Wales’s development agency
Ten unpaid advisers will help shape the body ministers say will halve Wales's productivity gap, with a first report due…
RATES CUT: Verdi’s boss says only one of his five venues gets the 30% hospitality cut, and calls the £51,000 line “a cliff edge”
The Welsh Government announced on Tuesday that pubs, cafés, restaurants and gyms will get a permanent 30% business rates cut…
BUSINESS RATES: Pubs, cafés and gyms get a 30% cut, but only if they are under the £51,000 line
Hospitality and leisure venues across Wales will move onto the lower rates multiplier from April 2027, in a permanent change…
£1 BUS FARES: Nine million journeys in, the £1 ticket for under-22s is staying until 2027
The £1 single and £3 day ticket for 5 to 21-year-olds has been extended to March 2027, with more than…
CYMRAEG AI: Ministers try again to teach artificial intelligence to speak Welsh
The Welsh Government is handing data, resources and expertise to a London AI company whose flagship model was built to…
CARMARTHENSHIRE: County lands £2.1m for care housing, but where it goes is a secret for now
The Welsh Government has confirmed to Swansea Bay News that £2.1m of today's £2.3m Housing with Care Fund announcement comes…
PISA RESULTS: Wales still bottom of the UK class in every subject, as maths slides again
Wales scored lowest of the four UK nations in maths, reading and science in PISA 2025, with maths falling significantly…