18+ hour, 39+ min ago   (483+ words) First-year students are to be offered meningitis B vaccinations at university campuses as part of a new health board programme. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board will run walk-in clinics at universities across Cardiff during September and October, with students…...

1+ day, 12+ min ago   (679+ words) ‘Sometimes old traditions are thrown up like dust along a summer road. You glimpse them briefly in the sunbeams…’ This quiet, yet profound book, and one I took great pleasure in reading, is a collection of such moments and memories,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (979+ words) Bryn Terfel’s proudest fans had the best seats in the house as his parents watched him bring a concert audience to its feet in an emotional return to north Wales. The Welsh opera superstar received a rapturous standing ovation on…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (895+ words) Cornwall Council has requested permission from the UK Government to use bilingual road signs in Cornish and English. This article discusses that request – including placing it in a comparative context with Wales where bilingual Welsh and English road signs have…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (919+ words) Most people would consider the building of a grand museum glorifying a notorious dictator estimated to be personally responsible for the deaths of around 10 million people as an act of grotesque folly and gross insensitivity. That such a museum – which…...

4+ day, 55+ min ago   (800+ words) Elgan Hearn, Local Democracy Reporter An investigation is to be held into why a prestigious high school needs over £440,000 to write off debts incurred for running community sports. Crickhowell High School announced at the end of March that it would…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (508+ words) The pressure on universities to change “will only increase” with Andy Burnham as Prime Minister, a university sector chief has suggested. It comes as the value of higher education is increasingly being questioned, Professor Malcolm Press, president of Universities UK,…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (918+ words) A Reform Member of the Senedd has refused to say whether he approved a press release on Wales’ latest PISA results that was riddled with factual inaccuracies, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. A Senedd staffer working on behalf of Sir…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1048+ words) Anthony Lewis, Local Democracy Reporter A county’s schools are having to make “increasingly difficult” decisions as falling pupil numbers impacts their budgets. A report on school finances set to go before Merthyr Tydfil Council’s Aspirational scrutiny committee on Monday, September…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (492+ words) Kieran Molloy, Local Democracy Reporter Calls have been made for a Welsh city to follow in Manchester’s footsteps and give free school transport to homeless children. Earlier this month the Greater Manchester Combined Authority granted thousands of children living in…...