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Consultant blames Welsh Government for north Wales’ NHS crisis Richard Evans, Local Democracy Reporter A consultant heading a Facebook group started by retired doctors and nurses campaigning to end Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s A&E and beds crisis has...

A consultant heading a Facebook group started by retired doctors and nurses campaigning to end Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s A&E and beds crisis has slammed Welsh Government

Welsh Water sewage spills at highest in 10 years, NRW data shows Natural Resources Wales data shows Welsh Water was responsible for 132 sewage spills in 2024.

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Odd headline. I saw Michael Sheen as Nye last week.

Equally why are so many medical doctors religious?

There is no need to be rude

So you accept some risk is inevitable. The question then is where to draw the line. Is it reasonable to reduce the speed limit of 30 stretch of road where there has never been an accident? But keep a 40 in place at a blackspot?

Do you accept that some risk is acceptable? If you don’t, then ban cars altogether. But I return to my original concern about lack of consistency. Different LAs seem to have adopted different views of risk (or more likely the implementation principles) We are left with a mess.

The local democracy question is far more complicated and is the tightrope elected politicians walk.

I suppose if I were implementing I would adopt an evidence based approach. If a stretch of road had a bad accident record or was near a school etc then no problem with 20.

Not sure those are big factors on many of the roads people want to revert. Personally the most irritating thing about the 20s is the complete lack of consistency. A drive from Llandudno to Milford takes in four counties with four very different approaches.

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If you ask me whether the road passed my house should be closed to through traffic, I would say yes. Residents are not always the best judges.

Surely having a proportionally bigger public sector is a political decision of the Welsh Govt. It could decide to shrink it and if proportionally smaller than England’s we’d be quids in.

Ok but please allow me my delusions

I think everyone is jumping to the wrong conclusion. Npt/Cdf to merge, Osp/Sca to merge and RGC to go fully pro. E and W to get equal funding. N get a reduced amount.

So . Scrapping Non Dom status will actually cost billions more than it raises. That went well then.

A quick reminder that we’ve seen the Farage effect before..

What does “further and faster” even mean?

In Birmingham the recycling rate is 23%. In @conwycbc.bsky.social it is 70%.

Country ratter offers to help tackle Birmingham bin strike rodent plague ‘My terriers will kill them all,’ Tom Bowen claims as he warns removing refuse will only send rats scurrying to gardens, cellars and sewers

Unleash the dogs of war!

Is there a link to the data?

Errr. Aren’t theSingle Market and customs union tariff walls by another name?

Are they paying their own way?

Flog it on beeb 2

Indeed

An accurate headline if a little misleading. The most recent poll of GPs shows a sizeable and growing majority against. The decision to move to a ‘neither oppose nor support’ position was procedural because “oppose” didn’t quite hit 50%

Rachel from complaints find government a lot tougher than opposition

Apparently some people In Birmingham haven’t had their bins collected for three weeks. In Conwy ours are once a month without strikes

Very odd take. The Plaid vote fell by 27%. The other three candidates took 41% from a standing start. 2:5 voters supported Reform or Tory.

Closed list d’Hondt?