Political News

On Sunday 15th March, Vaughan Williams visited Halen Gwyr, Gower Sea Salt who are a new business set up locally in Delta Lakes, Llanelli. Hannah...

CLLR Jeff Edmunds, Executive Board Member for resources, has explained the purpose of reserves following speculation about their use. Over the last week, it has...

Joyce Watson AM is backing a public campaign to stop NHS privatisation. The People’s NHS campaign is calling on the UK Government to protect the...

A candidate to be the next MP for Llanelli has pledged that if elected he will only take the average wage of Llanelli constituents....

Plaid Cymru Llanelli Westminster candidate Vaughan Williams has launched a petition to scrap the car parking charges for Llanelli Town Centre. The response so far...

Penny Edwards has been elected the new Carmarthenshire County Councillor for the Hengoed ward. A by-election was held yesterday following the...

Exposed: the government isn’t just turning a blind eye to tax-dodgers. It’s actually helping them.   The government has rubber-stamped a legal loophole that...

Plans announced by the Welsh Labour Government which will strengthen rules on smoking in cars will be introduced later this year. ...

Llanelli AM Keith Davies says the cost of living crisis is not over as new figures released today, show that wages for local workers...

Mae Keith Davies, Aelod Cynulliad Llanelli, wedi cefnogi Apêl Fawr y Cennin Pedr gan Marie Curie yr wythnos hon, ar ôl lansio'r apêl codi...

Llanelli Assembly Member Keith Davies has this week backed Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal following the official launch of the fundraising appeal in Wales....

Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain. In one stroke he defined the criteria by which the Nazis' "impossible" Enigma...

Over the last 2 weeks Scott Jones, TUSC candidate in Llanelli, has been contacted by dozens of people in the Llanelli constituency asking ‘What...

Wales’ Health and Social Services Minister, Mark Drakeford has called on the UK Government to ensure Wales is fully represented on the independent Panel...

Keith Davies AM has visited the John Davies pharmacy in Burry Port to raise awareness of the NHS ‘Choose Well’ campaign. The aim...

The following is a Press statement from the Leadership of Carmarthenshire County Council. We are pleased to confirm that following a...

by Robert Lloyd Llanelli’s future, school security, the media’s glorification of war, giving students a political voice and the dangers of social media destroying...

County Councillor Siân Caiach is to stand for Member of Parliament for Llanelli at the U.K. General Election Assembly election on May 7th 2015....

Plaid Cymru Llanelli have announced their candidates for the forthcoming County/Community by-election on Thursday 19th February in Hengoed Ward. The Party...

Scott Jones, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate for Llanelli at next May’s general election has welcomed the victory of the left...

Disappointment has been expressed following the approval of the U.K Government's 'Charter for Budget Responsibility' which will bind the next Westminster Government to billions...

Please note that Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales leader Leanne Wood will be in Llanelli Town Centre on Saturday morning (24th January)...

Following the Selection Meeting on the 17th January, 2015 for the Hengoed By-Election, the Llanelli Constituency Labour Party has announced that Penny Edwards, wife...

Nia Griffith MP had signed up to @CommunityUnion’s Stand up for Steel campaign. Speaking before the launch of the campaign on Wednesday in a...

Nia Griffith MP has welcomed the announcement by Carmarthenshire’s ruling Labour Group that they will not be offering a golden handshake severance payment to...

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has called on Westminster leaders to come to Wales to debate Welsh issues on live television before May’s general...

Plaid Cymru politicians Jonathan Edwards MP and Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM have said a potential severance package at a cost of £446,000 for the...

A potential £446,000 pay-off for a Carmarthenshire County Council boss Mark James has been branded "a disgrace" by Plaid Cymru. Vaughan...

by Robert Lloyd Former Labour Leader Neil Kinnock will be the guest speaker at the next fundraising dinner for the Labour Party in Llanelli....

Llanelli MP and Shadow Wales Minister Nia Griffith is calling for the compulsory state registration of hairdressers. She will this week be raising this...

Nia Griffith MP has declared her full support for parents in the campaign to keep free bus transport to St. John Lloyd’s School. ...

Nia Griffith MP has reacted angrily to plans by the Police and Crime Commissioner to cut funding for CCTV coverage, comprising 87 cameras currently...

Plaid Cymru Leader, Leanne Wood AM, has today renewed her party's pledge to save and strengthen the Welsh Health Service and argued that Plaid...

Plaid Cymru’s Social Services spokesperson Lindsay Whittle says the First Minister is failing to stand up for disabled people by not supporting the establishment...

Nia Griffith MP had the pleasure of meeting the winners of her Christmas card competition when she visited their respective schools Burry Port Primary...

Nia Griffith MP has accused the Tory – LibDem coalition of choosing policies on tax and welfare which have hit the poorest in Wales...

On December 6th, it was Small Business Saturday. Plaid Cymru Llanelli Westminster candidate Vaughan Williams and his team visited local traders in Llanelli Market...

Keith Davies AM has applauded the £70,000 announced yesterday for a Llanelli project to promote Welsh Language in the town. It will go...

Austerity and de-industrialisation a dent in Welsh tax take. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has today said the first OBR publication...

Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister, Lesley Griffiths, today announced £257,000 to help parents develop their children’s language skills. The Minister made...

On Thursday 27th November, Plaid Cymru Llanelli hosted an evening ‘What next for Wales' with guest speaker Dafydd Wigley at the Queen Victoria Club,...

Leanne Wood calls for alternative to austerity! The UK Government’s austerity agenda has failed and must be replaced by a programme of rebalancing wealth and...

Plaid peer Lord Dafydd Wigley will today (Tuesday) use a questions session in the House of Lords to make the case for Wales to...

None of us can be complacent about the immense challenge facing small, independent businesses, and in particular those in our town centre, but we...

Nia Griffith MP for Llanelli has joined forces with Anglesey’s Albert Owen MP to campaign to get a level playing field for sharing out...

Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans, has this morning announced the completion of the Review into Farming Connect, and that she is...

Carmarthenshire's Executive Board is to lobby the Welsh Government for more funding to carry out statutory duties placed on the county council to assess...

Come and meet your Plaid Llanelli Westminster candidate Vaughan Williams and our guest speaker Dafydd Wigley. Thursday 27th November 2014 7.30pm...

A FORMER Carmarthenshire councillor could be granted the prestigious honour of the Freedom of the County. The accolade, the highest a...

£1.1 billion: that’s how much massive banks like HSBC and RBS coughed up this week in UK fines. That’s a lot of unexpected...