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Solidarity and Unity (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
RAIL UNION RMT announced today that it is to ballot a group of signalling staff in the Wales and the Marches Operations area for strike action and action short of strike action over the imposition of rosters at the new South Wales Control Centre due to open in January 2010. The ballot will cover RMT signalling grades members at the following NR signalling locations in the Wales and Marches Operations...
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Tortoiseshell (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Cardiff Rivers #4 Taff-Ely-Rhymney - City Hall Great to grab another cache in the old stomping ground last week, near Cardiff City Hall. I went for the Post Office Tower shot - Cache in the foreground, Capitol Tower in the background.
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Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
The Great British Cheese Festival at Cardiff Castle was a huge success this year with thousands attending to sample the cheeses and of course the real ales and ciders available at the Cardiff Arms bar, run by CAMRA. Emergency beer supplies were brought in by Rhymney, Vale of Glamorgan and Otley Breweries. Cider supplies were stocked up with reorders from Denis Gwatkin and Gwynt y Ddraig. A pleasant...
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Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Beer list for the Cardiff Arms beer tent at the Great British Cheese Festival: Breconshire Cribyn 4.5% Breconshire Rescue Brew 4.4% St Austell Tribute Hobsons Best Caledonian Dechars IPA 3.8% Butcombe Bitter Woodforde Wherry 3.8% Morrisey Fox blonde 4.2% Dark Star Hophead 3.8% Rhymney Dark 4% Purple Moose Snowdonia 3.6% Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9% Brycelin Buddy Marvelous 4 Otley Amarillo Rhymney Hobby...
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Rhymney Valley Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
A MAN, bleeding profusely from a gaping wound to his neck and a further injury to his hand, believed he was going to die after being attacked in a flat in Rhymney, Cardiff Crown Court has heard.
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Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
Brecon Beer Festival Well it's that time of year again when the local beer festivals all start happening at the same time. For those of you not going to the Plough & Harrow in Monknash this weekend there is the Brecon Beer Festival at their new venue, the Breconshire Brewery tap, the Boar's Head. For those wishing to travel to Brecon, Sixty-six coaches run the X43 Abergaveny-Brecon- Merthyr-Cardiff...
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upside down in cloud (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
There doesn't seem to be much of Idris Davies' poetry on the internet, so I've uploaded these four, which are in "This World of Wales - an anthology of Anglo-Welsh poetry", ed. Gerald Morgan. And now I'll shut up. Gwalia Deserta VIII Do you remember 1926 ? That summer of soups and speeches, The sunlight on the idle wheels and the deserted crossings, And the laughter and the cursing in the...
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Valleys Mam (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
OK so is there any rationale in this,its not that those furthest away claimed most.Its not that ministers claimed most.So why did they claim what they did and what was it for - weekly shop,entertaining -pass may be someone out there knows Brian Gibbons Labour, Aberavon Total food claim £3,861.90 Mark Isherwood Conservative, North Wales Total food claim £3,126.30 Elin Jones Plaid Cymru,...
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Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
Daley Dozen, part 3 An occasional series devoted to a dozen best things in the beer world. 12 favourite pubs in South Wales Clytha Arms, Monmouthshire . Set in its own grounds, the Clytha has won countless awards over the years for its real ales and food. It is even on a bus route, though a somewhat irregular one. Joiners, Bishopston, Swansea . Home of the Swansea Brewing Company, the Joiners offers...
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Huw Lewis (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
There's simply no point trying to put a positive spin or a brave face on about last night's results. They were truly dreadful for Labour as a Party and, I would contend, for Wales as a country. However you jiggle the figures, the Tories beat us in the popular vote here in Wales, with UKIP polling strongly as well. This tells you that something pretty fundamental is wrong with politics in Wales right...
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Rhymney Valley Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
WITH last week’s report on the reduction of the X38 bus service, the Rhymney Valley Express found a situation that could isolate the communities of the Rhymney Valley. To find out more about the October 6 changes, reporter Ian Caleb travelled on the 5.10pm from Cardiff to Bargoed and talked to the people it affects most.
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cardiff radical socialist forum (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Azerbaijani artist Babi Badalov, whose asylum claim was rejected by the Home Office, was seized when reporting to the Border Agency office in Cardiff today. He was taken to Rhymney police station but his current whereabouts are unknown. An openly gay man, critical of his homophobic government, Babi has already suffered physical and mental attacks [...]
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icWales (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
THE kick-off for Merthyr’s first pre-season friendly with Cardiff City on Saturday (July 12) has been brought forward.
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Rhymney Valley Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
A BUS taking passengers from the Rhymney Valley to Cardiff fell well below national reliability standards, a public inquiry has heard.
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icWales (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
AARON Ramsey has been backed to overcome the disappointment of Cardiff’s FA Cup Final defeat and become “one of the best midfielders in the country”.
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