Cardiff Council’s Park Services has worked closely with Whitchurch Women’s Institute (WI) to refurbish two special war memorials. The historical plaques date back to WWII and were erected on Whitchurch Common by the American Embassy. It was a way to thank to local people for the hospitality their soldiers had received during the war before ...
Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating awareness event about school meals in Britain. National School Meals Week has been running since 1993 and is organised by the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA). The week encourages schoolchildren to enjoy a healthy school meal ...
A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of exposure of its workers and the public to the potentially fatal Legionella bacteria. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Merthyr Industrial Services (Biomass) Limited following an investigation of its premises as part of HSE’s response ...
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work on a client’s property. A self-employed handyman from Cardiff, who does not wish to be named, regularly carried out work on properties managed by Rochefort Shugar Ltd and on 15 October 2010 was sent to a ...
A loan shark who preyed on vulnerable people is due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th November at Cardiff Crown Court. He was convicted last month of 6 counts of illegal money lending. Robert Welch 57, from Cardiff, pleaded guilty to all of the charges brought against him. Councillor Judith Woodman, Cardiff Council Executive Member ...
The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the Department for Work and Pensions today. Despite a formal public consultation the offices in major cities including London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Cardiff are to close, including award-winning jobcentres such as Camberwell where 2,000 local people signed ...
Since the General Election councils in England and Wales have lost over 101,000 jobs and the Vale of Glamorgan is flying high in the league of putting people out of work, with the worst record in Wales. Despite being only 115th in total size of all authorities in England and Wales, the council is 16th ...
A group of Barclays staff based in Cardiff have successfully completed the UK Three Peaks challenge in aid of NSPCC Cymru/Wales and raised over £8,800 for the children’s charity. Barclays customer retentions team leader, Ian Edwards, and twenty two of his colleagues climbed to the peaks of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in 13 ...
The Public and Commercial Services union which represents civil and public servants has called on the government to invest in HM Revenue and Customs rather than cut costs. The government has acknowledged concerns raised by the Treasury select committee about a problem with leadership in Revenue and Customs but the continuing drive to cut staff ...
On the 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste slid onto the village of Aberfan in South Wales. The history of the tragedy is well documented elsewhere, but briefly for some 50 years up to 1966, millions of cubic metres of excavated mining debris from ...
Cardiff Council’s Park Services has worked closely with Whitchurch Women’s Institute (WI) to refurbish two special war memorials. The...
Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating...
A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of...
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work...
A loan shark who preyed on vulnerable people is due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th November at Cardiff...
The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the...
Since the General Election councils in England and Wales have lost over 101,000 jobs and the Vale of Glamorgan...
A group of Barclays staff based in Cardiff have successfully completed the UK Three Peaks challenge in aid of...
The Public and Commercial Services union which represents civil and public servants has called on the government to invest...
On the 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste...
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