George Thompson

Politics

UK Government ‘betraying Wales’ over rail funding, Plaid leader says

Rhun ap Iorwerth called for the First Minister of Wales to condemn the UK government’s Welsh rail funding.
10 Jun 2025
Politics

Welsh FM accused of doing ‘nothing’ to protect pensioners from winter fuel cut

Darren Millar, leader of the Welsh Conservatives, called for Eluned Morgan to apologise to the pensioners affected by the change last winter.
10 Jun 2025
Business News

Nigel Farage calls for ‘re-industrialisation’ of Wales

Nigel Farage has called for the blast furnaces in Port Talbot to be reopened and for Wales to start producing coal again.
9 Jun 2025
Crime

Police administrator jailed for leaking information to drug dealer boyfriend

Lucy Langmead, 44, and Daniel Cozens, 37, were sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday after admitted various charges.
3 Jun 2025
Crime

Trial of man accused of killing baby girl in car park crash delayed

Flaviu Naghi, who faces two charges of causing the death of six-month-old Sophia Kelemen, will now go on trial in January 2026.
2 Jun 2025
Environment

Wales sees sunniest spring on record

Provisional figures from the Met Office show Wales has had its sunniest spring, beating the figure from 2020.
29 May 2025
Crime

Driver jailed for killing girl, 3, in crash after taking 20 lines of cocaine

Rawal Rehman, 36, of Lambton Road, Manchester, was given a 12-year sentence at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday.
27 May 2025
UK

Three died in blaze at former RAF base after part of building ‘collapsed’

Firefighters Martyn Sadler, 38, and Jennie Logan, 30, died alongside member of the public David Chester, 57, in an incident on May 15.
27 May 2025
UK

Plans for North Wales metro service unveiled by Welsh Government

More rail and bus services, pay as you go technology and station improvements have been promised for North Wales over the next decade.
22 May 2025
UK

Welsh Tory calls for rap trio Kneecap to be dropped from festival line-up

Darren Millar has called for the band to be removed from the Green Man Festival after a band member was charged with a terror offence.
22 May 2025
Crime

Man found not guilty of preventing burial of two babies

Zilvinas Ledovskis, 50, of Swansea, was found not guilty after the prosecution said it would be presenting no evidence against him.
20 May 2025
Crime

Former MP appears in court charged with harassing ex-wife

Katie Wallis, the former MP for Bridgend, who was previously known as Jamie, appeared before Cardiff Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
19 May 2025
Politics

Reform a ‘one-man personality cult’, leader of the Welsh Tories to say

Darren Millar, leader of the Welsh Tories, will address his party at the Welsh Conservative Conference in Llangollen on Saturday.
16 May 2025
Politics

Kemi Badenoch insists Tories should not be written off at Welsh conference

The Tory leader suggested her party faces a long, hard battle to return to power and prominence as she spoke at the Welsh Conservative Conference.
16 May 2025
Politics

Conservative leaders will not rule out deals with Reform and Plaid in Wales

Kemi Badenoch and Darren Millar declined to rule out doing deals with other parties to secure becoming the next Welsh goverment.
16 May 2025
Politics

Welsh Tories in vow to introduce winter fuel payment, if elected

Darren Millar said the party would offer the boldest manifesto.
15 May 2025
Crime

Woman who disappeared after leaving work died of stab wounds, coroner told

Paria Veisi was found dead at a property in the Penylan area of Cardiff on April 19, seven days after she went missing.
15 May 2025
Crime

Man appears in court over school stabbing trial collapse

Christopher Elias, from Neath Port Talbot, appeared before Swansea Magistrates’ Court over the collapse of a school stabbing trial in October 2024.
14 May 2025
Politics

Welsh First Minister says she will not use ‘divisive language’ on immigration

Welsh Labour leader Eluned Morgan refused to say whether she supported the Prime Minister saying the UK risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’.
13 May 2025
UK

Foragers rescued from Welsh island after eating suspected hemlock

Two experienced foragers were rescued from Sully Island off the coast of south Wales earlier this month.
13 May 2025
Politics

No ‘formal relationship’ possible between Plaid and Reform

Plaid Cymru and Reform UK are predicted to be the biggest parties in Wales at the next election.
7 May 2025