The increasingly embattled Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne was greeted with more bad news when he opened the file containing the latest growth figure this morning. The economy grew by one fifth of a percent in the second quarter of the year, way off the target of 0.8% needed to stay on track with ...
Today’s publication of the latest Gross Value Added (GVA) figures showing that prosperity levels in Wales remain the lowest of any UK nation or region. Shadow Minister for the Economy David Melding AM said: “Today’s figures show that ministers’ claims to be confident of delivering economic prosperity for Wales have a very hollow ring. “A ...
SnippetsCommenting on today’s unemployment figures for Wales, Welsh Lib Dem Shadow Economy Minister, Jenny Randerson AM said: “Another month, another set of figures show that Welsh families are more likely to be facing unemployment and hardship than most other places in the UK. “We are continuing to see high unemployment, high economic inactivity, and high ...
Welsh Assembly
Commenting on the latest unemployment figures published today, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Cheryl Gillan MP said: “Unemployment in Wales continues to be a blight on the economy and on the lives of workers and their families struggling to survive Labour’s recession. “In the last year 600 jobs a week have been lost in ...
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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