VIDEO: Welsh Assembly

Former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Elis-Thomas will not take part in a Welsh assembly tribute to Baroness Thatcher because he "disagreed with everything she did". The peer said she widened the gap between rich and poor and the effects were still being ...

The education minister has defended his intervention in the troubled education service at Blaenau Gwent council. Leighton Andrews was responding to an urgent question in plenary from Plaid Cymru's Simon Thomas. He said the critical Estyn report had ...

AMs raised concerns about the dangers of energy drinks on 15 May 2013. Labour AM Jenny Rathbone led the individual member's debate on the dangers of the drinks, supported by Conservative AM Angela Burns, Liberal Democrat Aled Roberts and her Labour ...

First Minister, Carwyn Jones, has today announced a GBP1.6m EU funding boost to continue the development of a pioneering tidal energy stream generator off the West Wales coast. The funding will help Welsh marine renewable energy company, Tidal ...

Democracy in Wales is being damaged by a lack of coverage of Welsh affairs in the London-based media, the assembly's presiding officer fears. Rosemary Butler says she is worried that too many people are getting their news from organisations ...

Reorganisation plans for health services in south Wales will be announced "by the end of the month" according to the first minister. Carwyn Jones was responding to members' questions on 14 May 2013. Plaid Cymru South Wales West AM Bethan Jenkins ...

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 ...

A number of changes to rules affecting cattle movements and the Welsh Government's TB eradication policy come into effect from 1 April. Following recommendations from the European Commission's Food and Veterinary Office (FVO), consideration of a ...