Sian Corcoran
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Cymuned Scarlets Cymru Annibyniaeth
Community Scarlets Wales Independence
Dewi Sant "Gwnewch y pethau bychain a glywsoch ac a welsoch gennyf fi"
St David - Do the little things you heard and saw from me
Community Scarlets Wales Independence
Dewi Sant "Gwnewch y pethau bychain a glywsoch ac a welsoch gennyf fi"
St David - Do the little things you heard and saw from me
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Community groups across Wales are being encouraged to apply to the 2026 St David’s Day fund for activities to celebrate the day of Wales’ patron saint Dewi Sant, on 1 March
One week left to apply for St David’s Day 2026 celebration fund
Community groups across Wales are being encouraged to apply to the 2026 St David’s Day fund for activities to celebrate the day of Wales’ patron saint Dewi Sant, on 1 March. First Minister Eluned Morg...
nation.cymru
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Community groups across Wales are being encouraged to apply to the 2026 St David’s Day fund for activities to celebrate the day of Wales’ patron saint Dewi Sant, on 1 March
If you like Christmas, Cary Grant, black and white or feelgood films then The Bishop's Wife BBC2 Saturday 9.30am might be something you won't want to miss
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you like Christmas, Cary Grant, black and white or feelgood films then The Bishop's Wife BBC2 Saturday 9.30am might be something you won't want to miss
It shockingly has low uptake (even though its posted directly to you) in a free (until Reform get in Gov) and convenient way to either identify cancers early to or provide reassurance. If you're over 50, take responsibility for your own health and take the test. It's incredibly easy.
The Welsh Government has reported a significant rise in the number of bowel cancers detected in Wales since the screening age was reduced from 60 to 50
Bowel cancer detection rates double since lowering screening age
The Welsh Government has reported a significant rise in the number of bowel cancers detected in Wales since the screening age was reduced from 60 to 50. The change was implemented in a bid to help dia...
nation.cymru
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It shockingly has low uptake (even though its posted directly to you) in a free (until Reform get in Gov) and convenient way to either identify cancers early to or provide reassurance. If you're over 50, take responsibility for your own health and take the test. It's incredibly easy.
This is how long it takes to swear in a new member of the Government in Wales. Da iawn a llongyfarchiadau mawr i Plaid Cymru
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Plaid Cymru by-election winner sworn in at Welsh Parliament after historic ousting of Labour
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is how long it takes to swear in a new member of the Government in Wales. Da iawn a llongyfarchiadau mawr i Plaid Cymru
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
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Wales generally has a left of centre political identity.
This is how Caerphilly voted.
Reform may win a lot of seats in Wales, but it will be so hard for them to ever form a Government as most ppl don't agree with them.
This is why proportional systems are so much better.
This is how Caerphilly voted.
Reform may win a lot of seats in Wales, but it will be so hard for them to ever form a Government as most ppl don't agree with them.
This is why proportional systems are so much better.
October 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Wales generally has a left of centre political identity.
This is how Caerphilly voted.
Reform may win a lot of seats in Wales, but it will be so hard for them to ever form a Government as most ppl don't agree with them.
This is why proportional systems are so much better.
This is how Caerphilly voted.
Reform may win a lot of seats in Wales, but it will be so hard for them to ever form a Government as most ppl don't agree with them.
This is why proportional systems are so much better.
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An historic night in Caerphilly / Caerffili as Plaid Cymru end more than a hundred years of Labour representation.
Share of the vote:
Plaid 47 per cent
Reform 35 per cent
Labour 11 per cent
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Share of the vote:
Plaid 47 per cent
Reform 35 per cent
Labour 11 per cent
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Plaid wins the Caerphilly by election in historic result - live updates
Lindsay Whittle is the new Senedd Member and paid tribute to Hefin David and his family in his victory speech
www.walesonline.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
An historic night in Caerphilly / Caerffili as Plaid Cymru end more than a hundred years of Labour representation.
Share of the vote:
Plaid 47 per cent
Reform 35 per cent
Labour 11 per cent
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Share of the vote:
Plaid 47 per cent
Reform 35 per cent
Labour 11 per cent
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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Pleased to be part of this hugely significant legal challenge. The Boris Johnson Govt first suppressed the Russia report & then refused to act on it. As evidence mounts of Putin’s hybrid warfare, it’s vital that we can be confident in the robustness of our democratic systems
UK Russian interference case heads to 'Europe's Supreme Court'
THREE former MPs have lodged a case with “Europe’s Supreme Court”, accusing the UK Government of failing in its duty to protect elections from…
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October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Pleased to be part of this hugely significant legal challenge. The Boris Johnson Govt first suppressed the Russia report & then refused to act on it. As evidence mounts of Putin’s hybrid warfare, it’s vital that we can be confident in the robustness of our democratic systems
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A reminder.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A reminder.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
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#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...
Bara Brith
I have a particular fondness for Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread. My late sister Thomasina lived and worked in Wales, and my first taste of it came courtesy of her next door...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...
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A pioneering £13 million reedbed and wetland storm overflow scheme – the first of its kind in the UK – has been officially opened
Deputy First Minister opens UK’s first reedbed storm overflow
A pioneering £13 million reedbed and wetland storm overflow scheme – the first of its kind in the UK – has been officially opened Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies joined Welsh Water Chief Exec...
nation.cymru
October 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A pioneering £13 million reedbed and wetland storm overflow scheme – the first of its kind in the UK – has been officially opened
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An award-winning Welsh pub which has an entirely-vegan menu has picked up another accolade today from animal rights charity PETA
Welsh pub wins PETA Vegan Food Award
Stephen Price An award-winning Welsh pub which has an entirely-vegan menu has picked up another accolade today from animal rights charity PETA. From creamy dairy-free camembert to sensational vegan do...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
An award-winning Welsh pub which has an entirely-vegan menu has picked up another accolade today from animal rights charity PETA
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Compared with Essex, it seems Wales was quite robust about avoiding the potent mix of misogyny, classism, rumour, gossip, anti-Catholicism and scapegoating that led to an epidemic of witchcraft trials in the 16th & 17th centuries. But it was not entirely immune:
theconversation.com/curses-whisp...
theconversation.com/curses-whisp...
Curses, whispers and a demon fly: this is the story of the first Welshwoman executed for witchcraft
While thousands were executed for witchcraft across Europe, Gwen ferch Ellis was one of only five put to death in Wales.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Compared with Essex, it seems Wales was quite robust about avoiding the potent mix of misogyny, classism, rumour, gossip, anti-Catholicism and scapegoating that led to an epidemic of witchcraft trials in the 16th & 17th centuries. But it was not entirely immune:
theconversation.com/curses-whisp...
theconversation.com/curses-whisp...
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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Shwmae! 👋 It’s #ShwmaeSumae Day - a celebration of our beautiful language 💚
💬 What’s your favourite #Welsh word?
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Diwrnod Shwmae Su'mae Hapus! Heddiw, rydyn ni'n ddathlu a rhannu'r iaith Gymraeg 🏴
💬 Beth yw eich hoff air #Cymraeg chi?
💬 What’s your favourite #Welsh word?
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Diwrnod Shwmae Su'mae Hapus! Heddiw, rydyn ni'n ddathlu a rhannu'r iaith Gymraeg 🏴
💬 Beth yw eich hoff air #Cymraeg chi?
October 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Shwmae! 👋 It’s #ShwmaeSumae Day - a celebration of our beautiful language 💚
💬 What’s your favourite #Welsh word?
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Diwrnod Shwmae Su'mae Hapus! Heddiw, rydyn ni'n ddathlu a rhannu'r iaith Gymraeg 🏴
💬 Beth yw eich hoff air #Cymraeg chi?
💬 What’s your favourite #Welsh word?
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Diwrnod Shwmae Su'mae Hapus! Heddiw, rydyn ni'n ddathlu a rhannu'r iaith Gymraeg 🏴
💬 Beth yw eich hoff air #Cymraeg chi?
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Bluestone National Park Resort in Pembrokeshire has become the first holiday park in the UK to be completely fossil fuel free in all its purchased energy
Bluestone becomes UK’s first fossil fuel free holiday resort
Bluestone National Park Resort in Pembrokeshire has become the first holiday park in the UK to be completely fossil fuel free in all its purchased energy. The five star holiday resort committed to an ...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Bluestone National Park Resort in Pembrokeshire has become the first holiday park in the UK to be completely fossil fuel free in all its purchased energy
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Public Health Wales is urging people with long-term health conditions to take up the offer of a flu vaccine this winter to reduce the risk of serious illness
Health chiefs urge public to get flu jab as winter approaches
Public Health Wales is urging people with long-term health conditions to take up the offer of a flu vaccine this winter to reduce the risk of serious illness. Officials warn that flu can cause severe ...
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October 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Public Health Wales is urging people with long-term health conditions to take up the offer of a flu vaccine this winter to reduce the risk of serious illness
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Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.
September 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.
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Money. We all need it. Many struggle to get it right – especially when young. And the financial choices you make early, can shape a lifetime. So if you're a teen or 20something or a parent or grandparent of someone who is, don't miss my young person's special tonight 8pm itv
September 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Money. We all need it. Many struggle to get it right – especially when young. And the financial choices you make early, can shape a lifetime. So if you're a teen or 20something or a parent or grandparent of someone who is, don't miss my young person's special tonight 8pm itv
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NEW: The UK Govt's Ministry of Justice begins routinely publishing Wales-only prison data for the first time following a decade of research exposing issues in the Welsh criminal justice system by Dr Robert Jones. 1/3
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
Release of Wales-only prison data will “enhance transparency and scrutiny of the Welsh criminal justice system”
Dr Robert Jones welcomes move by Ministry of Justice after years of campaigning
www.cardiff.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
NEW: The UK Govt's Ministry of Justice begins routinely publishing Wales-only prison data for the first time following a decade of research exposing issues in the Welsh criminal justice system by Dr Robert Jones. 1/3
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
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German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda
September 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda
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Opinion: What makes the Republican and conservative hypocrisy so depressing is that, at a time when free speech in the west needs thoughtful defenders, its self-proclaimed champions have revealed themselves as posturing partisans. on.ft.com/46aEwsF
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Opinion: What makes the Republican and conservative hypocrisy so depressing is that, at a time when free speech in the west needs thoughtful defenders, its self-proclaimed champions have revealed themselves as posturing partisans. on.ft.com/46aEwsF
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S4C has renewed its broadcast rights for the United Rugby Championship, ensuring continued free-to-air coverage of the competition in the UK for the next two seasons
S4C renews broadcast deal for United Rugby Championship coverage
S4C has renewed its broadcast rights for the United Rugby Championship (URC), ensuring continued free-to-air coverage of the competition in the UK for the next two seasons. Under the new agreement, S4...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
S4C has renewed its broadcast rights for the United Rugby Championship, ensuring continued free-to-air coverage of the competition in the UK for the next two seasons
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New Green Party leader Zack Polanski has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of betraying a ‘colonial mindset’ towards Wales.
New Green Party leader slams Reform’s ‘colonial mindset’ towards Wales
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of betraying a “colonial mindset” towards Wales. Speaking ahead of his visit to Cardiff this weekend, Mr Polanski, who se...
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September 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of betraying a ‘colonial mindset’ towards Wales.
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A small silver birch on the shore of Llyn Padarn is in contention to be named the Woodland Trust’s UK Tree of the Year 2025 – with less than three weeks left for the public to cast their votes wp.me/p8Mk4U-15aF
September 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A small silver birch on the shore of Llyn Padarn is in contention to be named the Woodland Trust’s UK Tree of the Year 2025 – with less than three weeks left for the public to cast their votes wp.me/p8Mk4U-15aF