Building safety reforms risk “suppressing the appetite” of mortgage lenders to offer loans on flats, making properties effectively unsellable to most buyers, a Senedd committee has heard.
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Test results and appointment tracking coming to NHS Wales app
Patients will be able to view test results and track appointments in the NHS Wales app as part of a major expansion announced by the Welsh Government.
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Senedd demands tougher fly-tipping penalties
Senedd members have demanded a crackdown on fly-tipping, with 42,000 incidents last year – a number that is rapidly rising while prosecution rates remain relatively low.
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Swift action needed: Senedd debates calls to save Wales’ fastest declining bird
Senedd members have debated a 10,000-name petition calling for “swift bricks” to be made mandatory in all new buildings to reverse the bird’s alarming decline.
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Torfaen Council unveils ‘The Deal’ to shift power from civic centre to communities
A NEW ‘deal’ between a council and residents is intended to move power away from the civic centre and into communities.
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Kerbside recycling scheme now includes small electrical items in Torfaen
Residents in Torfaen will be able to recycle small electrical items from home as part of their weekly collections from Monday 6 October 2025.
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£70,000 grant to bring Pontypool shop back into use
A GRANT of nearly £70,000 has been approved to bring a former pet shop back into use and convert an office above it into a flat.
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Senedd staff stress levels ‘stubbornly high’ as expansion looms
Nearly half of Senedd staff are suffering significant stress, with a “worrying” workload fuelled by the Welsh Parliament’s expansion weighing on their well-being, a committee has heard.
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‘It’s bloody inhumane’: Damning account of corridor care at the Grange Hospital
A cancer patient was forced to spend a “bloody inhumane” night in a chair at the Grange hospital, only getting a bed after collapsing on the floor, the Senedd has heard.
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VIDEO: Sighthound walk in Cwmbran to be regular event
Dozens of sighthounds (and their owners) met last Sunday morning by Northfields for a social walk along the Afon Lwyd.