Not so great, Auntie
BBC Wales yesterday announced its “saving” plan – or cuts, as most of us call it – as part of the Delivering Quality First (DQF) measures which have in turn come about as a result of the UK...
View ArticleSwansea Coastguard silent protest/ Protest distaw Gwylwyr y Glannau Abertawe
Today the campaign to save Swansea Coastguard Station held a silent protest outside the Mumbles office as Mike Penning the Tory Shipping Minister visited to speak to staff. Rumour has it that Mr...
View ArticlePlaid needs to ditch this cult of the individual
THE past few weeks has seen a great deal of speculation about the kind of role that Adam Price will play in Plaid Cymru in the future. That he is talented is in little doubt. His recently-released...
View ArticleSave Swansea Coastguard Station
When I found out last week via the media that Swansea Coastguard Station was to close, at first I couldn’t believe it. This was mainly due to the fact that Swansea was never even earmarked for closure....
View Articlesomething a bit different…
Here is my attempt at a poem for the first time in…years. Its about my car crash that I have written about previously here on this blog. Let me know what you think! Demon Days I used to love that...
View ArticleJob Evaluation mess of Labour-run Bridgend Council
LAST night, I arranged a meeting at Bridgend’s Evergreen Hall to hear from council staff their very real concerns over the job evaluation process. Ian Titherington from Plaid Cymru, and with a strong...
View ArticleA fast track Communications Act?
A FEW weeks ago, I led a Plaid Cymru debate in the Senedd regarding the Communications Review that has been initiated by Jeremy Hunt MP, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and I...
View ArticleThese comments won’t help the Welsh media
MENNA Richards, the former Director of BBC Wales, delivered a lecture last week in which she criticised politicians for focusing on the future of S4/C to the detriment of BBC Wales and its English...
View ArticleReaction to Lloyd’s job losses, Pencoed
Bethan Jenkins, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West, said: ”Incredibly sad news – my thoughts go out to the families of those workers. It demonstrates that towns like Pencoed and Bridgend are not safe...
View ArticleSomething needs fixing
SOMETIMES it’s hard to work out what is going on in the jobs market. Take engineering, for example. It is this discipline that the entire fortune of the Western industrialised world was built upon. Its...
View ArticleDon’t scrap BBC Introducing in Wales
Don’t scrap BBC Introducing in Wales Plaid AM joins industry calls to keep vital platform going Bethan Jenkins AM is calling on the BBC to reconsider plans to bring to an end its Introducing...
View ArticleWelsh musicians ‘are right to strike’/ Cerddorion Cymreig ‘yn iawn i streicio’
Cerddorion Cymreig ‘yn iawn i streicio’ AC Plaid yn cefnogi’r streic ac yn galw am newid gan y BBC Mae Bethan Jenkins AC yn cefnogi penderfyniad cerddorion Cymreig i streicio am dri diwrnod o 19-21...
View ArticleBody image, A one woman battle..?
I read an article today by Kira Cochrane in the Guardian, about the work that the MP Jo Swinson has done on the All party committee on body image. It states that Jo Swinson’s work has been a ‘one woman...
View ArticlePlaid Neath Port Talbot launch 2012 Local Election Campaign/ Plaid Castell...
Dyma lun o lansiad ymgyrch Llywodraeth Lleol Plaid Cymru Castell Nedd Port Talbot. Mae gennym nifer fawr o ymgeiswyr brwdfrydig sydd yn barod i gymryd y frwydr i Llafur yn yr ardal. Here is a picture...
View ArticleBridgend Council workers protest against Job Evaluation process/ Protest...
Here is a picture of staff at Heronsbridge School, Bridgend protesting last week about Bridgend Council’s Job Evaluation process. Staff are angry that many of the nursery nurses in the Borough are set...
View ArticleSomething needs fixing
SOMETIMES it’s hard to work out what is going on in the jobs market. Take engineering, for example. It is this discipline that the entire fortune of the Western industrialised world was built upon. Its...
View ArticleNot so great, Auntie
BBC Wales yesterday announced its “saving” plan – or cuts, as most of us call it – as part of the Delivering Quality First (DQF) measures which have in turn come about as a result of the UK...
View ArticleThese comments won’t help the Welsh media
MENNA Richards, the former Director of BBC Wales, delivered a lecture last week in which she criticised politicians for focusing on the future of S4/C to the detriment of BBC Wales and its English...
View ArticleJob Evaluation mess of Labour-run Bridgend Council
LAST night, I arranged a meeting at Bridgend’s Evergreen Hall to hear from council staff their very real concerns over the job evaluation process. Ian Titherington from Plaid Cymru, and with a strong...
View ArticleDon’t scrap BBC Introducing in Wales
Don’t scrap BBC Introducing in Wales Plaid AM joins industry calls to keep vital platform going Bethan Jenkins AM is calling on the BBC to reconsider plans to bring to an end its Introducing...
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