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Cambria Politico (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nick Bourne has found a new way of striking home the fact that the Tories did quite well in this spring’s local elections, winning more votes in Cardiff than the Liberal Democrats, who are leading the authority. He is demanding that the Assembly forges ahead with establishing directly-elected mayors in the Welsh cities. Talking to the press [...]
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icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday
Union slams bank giant over job cuts WalesOnline The UK’s biggest trade union condemned banking giant Barclays today for cutting more than 300 jobs at its home loans division.Unite said it was “incensed” at the decision and called on the bank to replace the jobs, being lost at the Firstplus business in Cardiff, South Wales.Deputy general secretary Graham Goddard said: “Whilst the...
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Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
This plan to rebuild the Welsh Labour Party has popped up on Wales Online. Just when I was thinking it was time to rebuild from the smallest electoral unit, namely the branch. Otherwise I just don't know how we develop and sustain a local political narrative linked to Labour values. Might suit party bureaucrats, but will it help rebuild the core vote?
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ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | yesterday
The opposition parties in Cardiff Bay have spoken of One Wales' first year as a year of failure and missed opportunities. They shouldn't be so hard on themselves.
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icWales (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
WALES’ rowers sprang the shock of the Henley Royal Regatta quarter-finals when they held on to beat seeds Leander in the quadruple sculls by a single foot – after the favourites had put out Barcelona Olympic champions Greg and Jonny Searle.
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Having barely been to Wales in the first forty years of my life, over the last few years I have paid many visits to Cardiff. Admittedly three of the visits were to watch West Ham in two play-off finals and a Cup Final! I spent Thursday evening and most of Friday in the Welsh capital filming for Telegraph TV. Each time I go I am struck by the vibrancy of the place. There's a real buzz,...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
THE X Factor judges have blasted Welsh talent after holding the hit show’s auditions in Cardiff this week, saying: “This year’s winner won’t come from Wales”.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
LAST night, in Cardiff's soggy Bute Park, there was a kind of miracle. Several thousand women took something seemingly unredeemably awful and turned it into something positive. They took their grief over lost loved-ones and friends and they used it to motivate themselves to run.
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helping business in flintshire (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Jun 25 2008 by David R. Jones, Daily Post A DECISION to base the top civil servant who will oversee economic development in North Wales in an office in Cardiff comes under renewed scrutiny from business leaders this week. The Welsh Assembly Government’s move to make Ian Williams’ job as head of its North Wales division and [...]
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icWales (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Ogden, of Brook View Close, Thornhill, Cardiff, was in front of Cardiff Magistrates’ Court yesterday where his solicitor Huw Bowden said his client believed his tolerance to alcohol may have been impaired by blood pressure tablets.
