ANTI-METRIX (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Welcome to MILTARY WALES - ST ATHAN SCHOOL FOR MERCENARIES - Welsh Assembly Minister JANE DAVIDSON decided NOT to call in this controversial application! Her decision was NOT TO INTERVENE! We have to formally request the papers relating to this to find out what reasons were actually given for not calling this in! Political lackeys all of them as the decision is made to follow their Westminster bosses...
0725 to Paddington (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Luckily, I knew what he meant. In the course of my interview with David Cameron, I asked him where he stood on the £13bn Defence Training Academy planned for St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. Being a smart politician,...
David Cornock's other blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
It wouldn't be a party conference without questions being asked about the defence training academy proposed for St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. Around 5,000 jobs are due to be created by the project to centralise training at one base in the largest private finance initative seen. Unless of course an incoming Conservative Government pulls the plug on it. So, David Cameron, you're the PM. What would...
icWales (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
The pair both live in the Vale of Glamorgan and share a lift into training each morning.
Carwyn Jones AM (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Rhodri Morgan of course deservedly stole all the headlines with his final speech to a UK Labour conference. Rhodri's wit and intelligence was given a standing ovation by conference, led by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues. There was a great fringe meeting last night on the theme 'Winning for Wales in the global economy'. It was good to hear from the new prospective Assembly Candidate for...
icWales (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
RICCY SCIMECA hopes to see the last of the Cardiff City gym at the Vale of Glamorgan after over a year in the wilderness, writes Mark Bloom.
icWales (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
RICCY SCIMECA hopes to see the last of the Cardiff City gym at the Vale of Glamorgan after over a year in the wilderness, writes Mark Bloom.
A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
I've been much involved in my 'Elderly Care' work over the last few days, so only now catching up on what's been happened at the Lib Dem Conference in Bournemouth. The only consistent theme seems to have been a full-blooded attack on the Conservative Party, and David Cameron in particular. " Who's the nasty party now?" is a question that occurs to me. It wouldn't be so worthy of comment if...
ANTI-METRIX (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Cable says scrap defence academy Vince Cable said the £13bn project was too costly A pan-forces training academy which would create thousands of jobs in south Wales should be scrapped, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman has said. Dr Vince Cable MP said the £13bn to set up the St Athan project was was too costly in the current economic climate. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced...
Welshpurpletree's Weblog (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
We had a lovely day out yesterday, once again the sun was shining, we went to Dyffryn Gardens in the Vale of Glamorgan. It was European Heritage Weekend, which meant it was free entry. We got there for 11am to meet up with our friend Richard and his daughter, and it was already starting to [...]
ANTI-METRIX (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
at last - the voice of reason...perhaps the local lib dems will see sence at last! Scrap Defence Training College , says Lib Dem WalesOnline - Tomos Livingstone - 3 hours ago Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable has identified the Training College , due to open in St Athan in 2014, as one project that should be dropped. ... Scrap Defence Training College, says Lib Dem Western Mail Scrap...
David Cornock's other blog (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
No-one can accuse the Lib Dems of refusing to use the c-word. Their Treasury guru, Vince Cable, is publishing today a list of where the axe would fall should they win power. His chums in the Welsh Lib Dems may or may not be thrilled to learn that Dr Cable would scrap the defence training review contract, estimated to be worth £13bn, a project that would see a defence training academcy set up...
ANTI-METRIX (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
WAGs Steamroller Aerospace Aspirations Welsh taxpayers 20m bill for privatised military college! The aerospace team in WAG have had to justify their aspirations for the Aerospace Park in the plans put to the Vale of Glamorgan Council for approval of the St Athan Defence College development. They call it a “draft comprehensive strategy” in the Design and Access statement dated May 2009....
Valleys Mam (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
I have seen various references to the lack of accountability that Commissioners seem to have.Who does this particular Commissioner answer to,certainly not the public it seems In today's Western Mail a national charity is criticising Ms Marks for not intervening when she should have and being basically a "company" person.I quote "WALES’ Commissioner for Older People is irrelevant,...
The Politics Blog (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
By Glenn Hughes A free job clinic will be held on Monday, September 14, 2009 in the Vale of Glamorgan. Starting at 7:30 p.m. and lasting approximately 2 hours, local job seekers will have the chance to pick the brains of local recruitment specialists: CV that works. The venue for this exciting event is the Llantwit Major town hall. The evening event is aimed at helping anyone who can't get a job in...
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