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Thousands join protests calling for Israelis to stop bombing Gaza. Thousands of people have joined protests across Wales today against the Israeli bombing of VENUE CYMRU VACCINATION CENTRE TO BE A THEATRE AGAIN IN SUMMER Venue Cymru vaccination centre to be a theatre again in summer. Plans to decommission Llandudno’s Venue Cymru as a coronavirus hospital are getting underway. The theatre and conference complex was hastily re-purposed in April last year as a Rainbow Hospital, ready for an anticipated wave of patients recovering from Covid. 'NEW AND POSITIVE DYNAMIC': KEY ROLES FOR NEW FACES IN There are key roles for new faces in Plaid Cymru’s new shadow cabinet, with every one of the party’s members bar Llywydd Elin Jones handed a brief. Plaid Cymru Leader Adam Price MS has today announced his key spokespeople in the Senedd, pledging to hold the Labour Welsh Government to account with “constructive but

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PLAID CYMRU MP CALLS FOR CROWN ESTATE MONEY TO STAY IN WALES A Plaid Cymru MP has called for money from the Crown Estate to stay in Wales. Liz Saville Roberts made the suggestion in response to the comments of Welsh Secretary Simon Hart on landslide problems in Nefyn. The shocking landslip on the coast took away the gardens of properties near the cliff’s edge, and Hart SON OF COUNCILLOR WHO DIED FROM COVID-19 VOWS TO CONTINUE Andy Hughes has announced he will be standing in the by-election for his late father Kevin”s Gwernymynydd seat. Source: Andy Hughes. Liam Randall, local democracy reporter The son of a Flintshire councillor who died from Covid-19 has vowed to continue his legacy by standing to

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WELSH GOVERNMENT HAND OUT £70 MILLION LOAN TO REOPEN RAIL Saul Cooke-Black, local democracy reporter A £70 million loan to progress plans to re-open the rail line between Newport and Ebbw Vale has been accepted by Blaenau Gwent council. The link, which was closed to passengers in April 1962, is on track to be restored. The interest-free loan provided by the Welsh Government will enable PUBLISHERS CONDEMN 'COWARDLY AND HATEFUL' NAZI GRAFFITI ON Publishers condemn ‘cowardly and hateful’ Nazi graffiti on Book Council building. An association representing Welsh publishers has put out a statement condemning Nazi graffiti on the HQ of the Books Council of Wales. The graffiti had appeared on the walls of the Book Council’s headquarters in Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth, last month

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S4C CREATE NEW DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION OFFICER ROLE AFTER S4C has announced that it is creating the new post of Diversity and Inclusion Officer as part of its “commitment to reflecting modern Wales” on screen and behind the camera. The move comes after the Welsh language channel was criticised on one of its own programmes for not including more BAME people in the decision-making ‘THEY LOOK AT US LIKE WE’RE FOREIGNERS’: THE STORIES OF Christian S. Phelps To pick up her nieces and nephew from school, Mymuna Soleman strolls past groups of holidaymakers in the Cardiff Bay waterfront, a newly renovated section of Wales’s capital city featuring sleek pavement, a modern theatre, new boutiques, restaurants, cafés, and museums. Cardiff doesn’t look the way it used to. And to her,

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Pride, passion and identity – the story of the rise of The Barry Horns. David Owens This is a tale not just of a band but of a fan-led

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Thousands join protests calling for Israelis to stop bombing Gaza. Thousands of people have joined protests across Wales today against the Israeli bombing of VENUE CYMRU VACCINATION CENTRE TO BE A THEATRE AGAIN IN SUMMER Venue Cymru vaccination centre to be a theatre again in summer. Plans to decommission Llandudno’s Venue Cymru as a coronavirus hospital are getting underway. The theatre and conference complex was hastily re-purposed in April last year as a Rainbow Hospital, ready for an anticipated wave of patients recovering from Covid. 'NEW AND POSITIVE DYNAMIC': KEY ROLES FOR NEW FACES IN There are key roles for new faces in Plaid Cymru’s new shadow cabinet, with every one of the party’s members bar Llywydd Elin Jones handed a brief. Plaid Cymru Leader Adam Price MS has today announced his key spokespeople in the Senedd, pledging to hold the Labour Welsh Government to account with “constructive but

forensic”

PLAID CYMRU MP CALLS FOR CROWN ESTATE MONEY TO STAY IN WALES A Plaid Cymru MP has called for money from the Crown Estate to stay in Wales. Liz Saville Roberts made the suggestion in response to the comments of Welsh Secretary Simon Hart on landslide problems in Nefyn. The shocking landslip on the coast took away the gardens of properties near the cliff’s edge, and Hart SON OF COUNCILLOR WHO DIED FROM COVID-19 VOWS TO CONTINUE Andy Hughes has announced he will be standing in the by-election for his late father Kevin”s Gwernymynydd seat. Source: Andy Hughes. Liam Randall, local democracy reporter The son of a Flintshire councillor who died from Covid-19 has vowed to continue his legacy by standing to

win his seat.

WELSH GOVERNMENT HAND OUT £70 MILLION LOAN TO REOPEN RAIL Saul Cooke-Black, local democracy reporter A £70 million loan to progress plans to re-open the rail line between Newport and Ebbw Vale has been accepted by Blaenau Gwent council. The link, which was closed to passengers in April 1962, is on track to be restored. The interest-free loan provided by the Welsh Government will enable PUBLISHERS CONDEMN 'COWARDLY AND HATEFUL' NAZI GRAFFITI ON Publishers condemn ‘cowardly and hateful’ Nazi graffiti on Book Council building. An association representing Welsh publishers has put out a statement condemning Nazi graffiti on the HQ of the Books Council of Wales. The graffiti had appeared on the walls of the Book Council’s headquarters in Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth, last month

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S4C CREATE NEW DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION OFFICER ROLE AFTER S4C Headquarters in Carmarthen. Picture by Rhodri ap Dyfrig (CC BY-SA 4.0) S4C has announced that it is creating the new post of Diversity and Inclusion Officer as part of its “commitment to reflecting modern Wales” on screen and behind the camera. ‘THEY LOOK AT US LIKE WE’RE FOREIGNERS’: THE STORIES OF Christian S. Phelps To pick up her nieces and nephew from school, Mymuna Soleman strolls past groups of holidaymakers in the Cardiff Bay waterfront, a newly renovated section of Wales’s capital city featuring sleek pavement, a modern theatre, new boutiques, restaurants, cafés, and museums. Cardiff doesn’t look the way it used to. And to her, NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL IN THE NORTH COULD BE READY BY 2025 Jez Hemming, local democracy reporter A new medical school for the north could be ready by 2025 and we’ll know what it costs by the summer, a health board chief executive has revealed. Jo Whitehead, CEO of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, revealed the news in her report to the board’s monthly meeting on Thursdsay. RESTORATION PROJECT COMMISSIONS 3D LASER SCAN OF OLDEST A restoration project has commissioned a 3D laser scan of the oldest surviving synagogue in Wales Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue has been recorded for posterity to millimetre accuracy because of a project by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) in partnership with the Foundation for Jewish Heritage. The

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BUILDING WORK TO REPLACE HEATH HOSPITAL IN CARDIFF COULD Alex Seabrook, local democracy reporter Building work to replace the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff with a new hospital could begin in 2025. The replacement hospital would take a planned three years to build, opening at the beginning of 2028. It is METRO STATION SET TO BE BUILT IN CARDIFF ON LAND A new station is set to be built in Cardiff on land previously earmarked for student flats as part of the South Wales Metro. The metro station will likely be built on the old coal yard, a derelict strip of land off Mynachdy Road, Gabalfa, next to the railway. That NORTH WALES POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER CANDIDATES: FIVE Arfon Jones, the outgoing North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner at Police HQ in Colwyn Bay. Jez Hemming, local democracy reporter. With nominations closed for the 2021 North Wales Police and crime Commissioner race, we’ve compiled a guide to CARDIFF BAY PUB ASKED BY OPERATOR TO TAKE DOWN ABOLISH The Packet pub in Cardiff Bay. Picture by @Simon1927 / Twitter. A Cardiff Bay pub has been asked to take down an Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party poster by its operator after calls for a boycott. The Packet, which has been a favourite watering hole of Senedd staff, is operated by Marston’s and trades under the Brains brand. LUCASFILM TO BEGIN FILMING WILLOW IN WALES IN MARCH Lucasfilm is to begin filming a Willow television series for Disney+ in March, it has been revealed. The TV spinoff will be set decades after Ron Howard’s 1988 film, and Warwick Davis will return in the role of the great sorcerer, Willow Ufgood. The producers say are aiming to capture the spirit of adventure, heroics, WELSH RACE EQUALITY ADVOCATES SLAM 'FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED Wales’ leading race equality advocates have written to both the Prime Minister and the author of the UK Government’s race report to express their “deep disappointment” with it. The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report by the UK Government published this week drew sharp criticism after claiming that “the British system is

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'I WAS GENUINELY HUNGRY': DRAKEFORD EXPLAINS CHEESE Mark Drakeford has explained his response to a question about his favourite cheese which went viral on social media last year and spawned a large number of memes. A clip showing the First Minister’s unexpected enthusiasm when asked about cheese lit up social media in July. With delight etched across his face he answered that PETITION TO SCRAP DEVOLUTION REJECTED BECAUSE ‘IT ISN’T UP A petition to scrap devolution has been rejected because the UK Parliament nor UK Government is “responsible for” it. It called for a repeal of the “UK Devolution Bill” and to get rid of what it called the “money pit satellite parliaments” and claimed, without supporting evidence, that there was “almost” an “EU plan to

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