Welsh Conservatives
PYLONS: Labour warns Plaid’s plan to bury power lines could push up bills
Reform and the Conservatives want new lines underground. Labour warns it could land on your bills, and ministers have yet…
COUNCIL TAX: Bands stay stuck on 2003 values into the 2030s as Plaid shelves the revaluation to save £80m
A quarter of households could have gone up a band, a quarter down. The Finance Minister says cushioning the losers…
NRW: Welsh Tories want the watchdog that polices Withyhedge and the Llanelli fly site scrapped
Andrew RT Davies says the regulator is “unfit for purpose” and should go the way Conservatives in England plan for…
UNION ROW: Plaid told to fix NHS as Rhun backs break-up pact
Welsh opposition parties say hospital care and schools should come first as nationalist leaders declare Westminster’s time is running out.…
‘PRETTY WEEDY CITY’: Council blames record summer for Swansea’s overgrown kerbs, then admits the spraying started late
Conservative councillors say the streets fell "well below the standard residents should reasonably expect". The cabinet member says they "may…
BROADCASTING: Wales’ new media watchdog won’t exist until 2028 — as critics call it “constitutional navel-gazing”
The Welsh Government has set out its timetable for a Shadow Broadcasting and Communications Authority — a working group recruited…
SENEDD: Local Reform members split in childcare row — and Plaid’s flagship policy ‘could cost £710m’
Reform UK's Swansea Bay and Carmarthenshire Senedd members split three ways in a vote on the party's own childcare debate…
GCSE SHAKE-UP: Exam board to overhaul new English GCSE in Wales months after launch as teachers warn of burnout
The WJEC is consulting on significant changes to the new GCSE English language and literature course, after warnings that a…
GREEN STEEL DELAY: Cross-party calls for answers over Port Talbot furnace setback as politicians press Tata and National Grid
A cross-party call for clarity is mounting at the Senedd over the delay to Port Talbot's new electric arc furnace,…
FAIRWOOD: Lib Dems take Swansea seat from Conservatives in by-election following death of former Lord Mayor
The Welsh Liberal Democrats have won the Fairwood ward on Swansea Council from the Conservatives in a by-election held after…
SCHOOL PHONES: First Minister rules out Wales-wide ban as Plaid Cymru leaves decision to individual schools — with Swansea parents already debating the issue
There will be no Wales-wide ban on mobile phones in schools, First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth has confirmed — with…