Welsh Government

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SWANSEA BAY: Hospitals will be up to 140 beds short this winter, and there is no extra money to fix it

The health board's own plan says demand for medical beds will outstrip what it has from now until spring, even…

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Carmarthenshire Council

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…

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Cllr Andrew Stevens

GOWER: Livestock road casualties on the commons fall from 140 to 33 in a year, council says

The council says 80 Welsh Government-funded collars on Fairwood cattle turned the herds back before they reached the road, and…

Councillor Edward Thomas in a hi-vis jacket holding a black recycling box filled with glass bottles and jars
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STICKER SHOCK: Wrong bag, wrong day, and the new Carmarthenshire bin rules that can end in court

Bin crews won't empty your own wheelie bin, holiday lets lose their collection even if they pay premium council tax,…

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Adam Price MS

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…

A multi-storey car park clad in bronze-coloured slats with a white illuminated sign reading Glan-Yr-Afon Riverside, with a ruined castle on the hill behind
Dyfed Powys Police

HAVERFORDWEST: First hour free as new riverside multi-storey opens on Friday, four years after the old one shut

The 24-hour car park at Glan yr Afon/Riverside opens at 2pm with card-only payment and charges from £2, and buses…

Computer-generated image of a slim grey steel pole with a Y-shaped top carrying power lines across green farmland, with trees and hills behind
Adam Price MS

POLES APART: Towy Valley pylon firm swaps steel towers for 22-metre poles, just five metres shorter

Green GEN Cymru says a slimmer single-pole design could carry both its planned power lines to Llandyfaelog, with a prototype…

The stone frontage of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, with its glass extension to the side
Arts Council Wales

ARTS CASH: A new lift for the Glynn Vivian, a roof for the Print Workshop, a stage for Tŷ Tawe: where £1m of arts money is going

Eleven venues across Swansea, Neath, Llanelli, Bridgend and Ystradgynlais have a share of the Welsh Government's £8m Arts Capital Investment…

Flags at Carmarthen County Hall
Budget

CARMARTHENSHIRE: Double-digit council tax rise warning as £32m gap opens

Finance chiefs say next year needs £13m of cuts and a 5% rise just to balance, and they have found…

Swansea Guildhall's stone frontage and clock tower with an inset of council leader Rob Stewart speaking at a cabinet meeting
Budget

SWANSEA: Council leader warns of ‘Trump-style shutdown’ if Welsh Government can’t pass its budget

Cabinet adopted the finance chief's spending restrictions for the rest of the year on Wednesday, with reserves at £10m against…