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 Carwyn's View .............on the European Election results |
What do I make of the European election results? It was certainly a bad night for us in the Labour party. We were outvoted in Bridgend and came second across the whole of Wales. More of that la...
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| Carwyn's View..........on AM / MP expenses |
| While not trying to defend some of the stranger claims made by some opposition politicians in the Assembly I though I’d outline this week exactly what we in the Assembly get and how it is spent. |
| Carwyn's View..........on Northern Ireland |
Readers will know that having a wife from Belfast has meant that I’ve written in the past about the politics of Northern Ireland. It was sad to see then the news last week that two soldiers a...
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| Carwyn's View.........on plastic bags |
One of the debates that took place last week in the Assembly came about as a result of a committee report into the use of plastic bags in Wales. It is now for the Minister, Jane Davidson to respond a...
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| Carwyn's View on ...........sport in Bridgend |
A few weeks ago, the Gazette broke the story of the plans for a new sports complex at Island Farm. Readers of this newspaper will know that the last time such a scheme was proposed it kept the Letter...
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| Carwyn's View..........on the latest BBC controversy |
Many of you will have heard recently of the decision by the BBC and Sky TV not to broadcast appeals regarding the situation in Gaza by the Disaster Emergency Committee made up of charitable organisat...
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| Carwyn's View..........on Troed-y-Ton residential home |
There has been some public concern this week about the proposals to close Troed-y-Ton residential home and replace it with another facility. As I understand it, the proposal is to replace the p...
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| Carwyn's View..........on the US Presidential Election |
The American election is over. It was always going to be groundbreaking, with either a black president or female vice-president being a certainty, for the first time in US history. Barack Obama...
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| Carwyn's View...........on the credit crunch |
The credit crunch continues to make the news following the failure of the US Congress last week to allow a $700billion dollar bail out of the banks. Let’s remember first of all that the situa...
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| Carwyn’s View: The National Eisteddfod |
This week, Cardiff has hosted the National Eisteddfod, and despite the weather, it seems to have been a success. The Eisteddfod remains a mystery to many people, particularly those who don’t ...
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| Carwyn's View: Controlling the banks in a "free" market.....¦. |
Since at least the end of the last war in this country, we’ve had what is sometimes referred to as a mixed economy.
This means that some things are run by the state, meaning the UK Gov...
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| Carwyn's View: A night spent with Bridgend Police |
Last week I spent an educational night in the company of Bridgend’s police. What I wanted to do was to get some flavour of what a busy Friday night was like from their perspective. Af...
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| Carwyn's View: Sandville Self-Help Centre / Emergency Care |
Last week I had the honour of being present at the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Sandville Self-Help Centre in Ton Kenfig. The centre itself was set up with the aim of providing help and...
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| Carwyn's View: School Fayres |
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the decision by Mynydd Cynffig Junior School about its decision to ban the sale of home-made cakes from a Christmas Fayre. The reasoni...
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| Carwyn's View: Prisons |
What should prison be like? People will have a variety of views on this. There are some who take the view that they should look like the Devil’s Island prison from the film Papillion. Others se...
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| Carwyn's View: Europe |
Many readers to this column will know that I am very pro-European in my views. Of course, there is much that could be done to improve the way that the European Union works. It could be far more d...
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| Carwyn's View: Street drinking in Bridgend Town Centre |
On the weekend of the 22nd-24th of September, Bridgend had one of its periodic street festivals. This one was bigger than normal, with stalls along Market Street and Caroline Street selling items...
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| Carwyn's View: Rugby World Cup 2007 |
By the time you read this, the finalists for the Rugby World Cup will be known. Will it be the quirky flair of France, the grinding efficiency of England, the big runners of South Africa or the d...
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| Carwyn's View: Media Reporting of the Madeleine Mc Cann Case |
When there is a criminal investigation in this country, very little is said about it in the media. Similarly, when someone is charged with a crime, the details don’t actually come out in public...
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| Carwyn's View: Hard Working Students Get Their Just Rewards |
Young people across Bridgend have spent recent weeks celebrating their exams results and looking forward to what the future will bring them. It is an all too common refrain from the sce...
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