£1.2 billion in 2000-6 was matched, under EU rules, by an equal amount from the Welsh Assembly and UK government. ‘Objective 1’ carried on under a new name from 2006 onwards,with the EU’s ‘Convergence’ programme producing £1bn of European Regional …
Archives for March 2012
Gardens kitted out for mothers
While over at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, they share plants from different regions of the world and put on a food and craft fair, with music, in their vast glasshouse. Mums will even get in for free on the special day too.
Centre for Alternative Technology to make redundancies
CAT, which was founded in 1973 near Machynlleth, has not revealed how many of its 90 full-time staff would be losing their jobs. In 2010, its employees voted to take a four-month pay cut of nearly 10% to safeguard the company’s future…
Growing flood risk to nuclear power plants on Welsh borders
A previously unpublished analysis undertaken by Westminster’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Defra, has been made available following a request under the Freedom of Information Act by The Guardian newspaper.
Welsh farmer’s potato trolley ordeal
A 63-year-old farmer was left feeling like a sack of spuds as she tried to get to hospital after breaking her leg. Faced with a seven-hour wait for an ambulance, Janet Gladwin’s only option was to travel to Withybush Hospital in a friend’s car.