2+ hour, 16+ min ago   (384+ words) More than 1,600 council staff took part in Welsh language awareness training last year, compared with fewer than 100 three years earlier, according to a report highlighting progress in promoting the language. The figures, published by Newport City Council, come as the…...

3+ hour, 17+ min ago   (371+ words) Dale Spridgeon, Local Democracy Reporter A 19th century chapel with “spectacular views” has been given the green light for conversion into a luxury holiday let. A full application was approved by Anglesey County Council for the restoration of Capel Tabor at…...

5+ hour, 59+ min ago   (641+ words) Twm Owen, Local Democracy Reporter A £250,000 scheme will see traffic lights giving priority to buses installed on a road between two towns where traffic is regularly reduced to a slow-moving crawl. Last year concerns were raised the six mile journey…...

6+ hour, 21+ min ago   (238+ words) Lewis Smith, Local Democracy Reporter Plans for a new Welsh-medium primary school have been approved, paving the way for a purpose-built facility offering education and childcare entirely through the medium of Welsh. The new seedling school will be built in…...

6+ hour, 39+ min ago   (1396+ words) “Be careful!” said an editor friend when my first book came out. “Publishers compare notes about which authors are difficult to work with!” “I get on with everyone,” I laughed. Apparently there’s a writer in Aberystwyth who goes around harassing…...

7+ hour, 1+ min ago   (600+ words) Oxfam Cymru has urged governments to back a Palestinian-led reconstruction of Gaza after a new report estimated it will cost £53.4 billion to rebuild the territory over the next decade. The charity says the scale of the destruction is unprecedented, with…...

7+ hour, 39+ min ago   (724+ words) Weithiau, dw i’n medru teimlo fel crwban, i raddau, yn fy nhaith i ddysgu Cymraeg, crwban araf iawn, iawn ar brydiau. Mae wedi bod yn daith gyda chyfnodau da ond weithiau mae angen hwb arna i … rhywbeth arbennig. Mae treulio…...

7+ hour, 55+ min ago   (1059+ words) Just a few weeks ago I visited Dublin for Bloomsday, the day commemorating the action of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (16 June 1904). I went to the city’s oldest theatre, the Smock Alley Theatre, for an event. In 1663 it was called the Theatre…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago   (792+ words) The future of a Welsh tourist attraction has been thrown into doubt after the owners announced the historic building will be put up for auction. Tŷ Hyll, also known as the ‘Ugly House’, is located on the outskirts of Betws-y-Coed…...

8+ hour, 49+ min ago   (252+ words) A Swansea man has been jailed for 17 years after carrying out a prolonged attack on a woman he had met for the first time that evening. Jamie Rawson, 56, of Swansea city centre, was convicted of rape, false imprisonment, assault occasioning…...