Pledge to block water competition

A second Welsh Conservative MP is to vote for an amendment criticising the Queen's Speech for not including a bill paving the way to an EU referendum. Vale of Glamorgan MP Alun Cairns joins Aberconwy MP Guto Bebb in supporting a backbench amendment ...

There was a "spectacular failure of governance" in the Caldicot and Wentlooge Levels Internal Drainage Board, a senior Welsh Government official has acknowledged. Gareth Jones, director general of the sustainable futures department, was giving ...

WELSH control of the Severn Bridges would see its tolls reduced, First Minister Carwyn Jones has claimed. Mr Jones's Government in Cardiff Bay has long called for powers over the two structures to be devolved to Wales. He has branded the current ...

A new set of Welsh language standards has been announced for consultation by the Welsh government after an initial set was rejected as too complicated. Education Minister Leighton Andrews turned down the original proposals from language commissioner ...

Opponents of plans for an opencast mine want the Welsh government to respect its own planning guidance and block it to avoid "enormous public expense". Torfaen council rejected the Varteg Hill application near Blaenavon in 2011 which is close to ...

An independent TV company has issued redundancy notices to 10 members of staff due to a cut in work from Welsh language broadcaster S4C. Antena currently employs 26 at its head office in Caernarfon. Director Iestyn Garlick told BBC Radio Cymru's ...

Welsh Secretary David Jones paid back £81,000 to the taxpayer on profits made on his second home in London with parliamentary expenses. Parliament's spending watchdog has revealed he is amongst 29 politicians due to repay a total of £484,000. The ...

The Welsh government is spending an extra £19m to double the number of young children it helps in families living in poor areas. It plans to add 146 projects to the Flying Start programme which offers part-time childcare for under-fours. Ministers ...

Last September I wrote a blog post about several headstones belonging to Welsh emigrants which had been uncovered in Grand Forks, British Columbia. After the article was posted I was sent this photo from the Boundary Museum because they believed he ...