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…
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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A previously unpublished analysis undertaken by Westminster’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Defra, has been made available following a request under the Freedom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.
Drought: Renewed call for Welsh water supply
The Welsh government said the people of Wales should receive proper value for “this vital resource”. On Monday the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) revealed that much of southern and eastern England was officially in a state …
Wild food – Blewit Pate recipe
Serve on toast or, alternatively, stuff between the skin and breast of a chicken before roasting (it’s just as good in a jacket spud for you veggies).
Recipe – baked eggs and rocket with chilli and yoghurt
I stumbled across this dish on returning from my morel hunting in Turkey. One of our wonderful hosts, Ali, gave us all a kilo of home-grown paprika as we left.
Cardiff Farmers’ Markets
RCMA (Riverside Community Market Association) currently runs four Farmers Markets in Cardiff. RCMA also aims to improve knowledge about, and access to, a fresh healthy diet and reduce the level of ‘food poverty’ in South Riverside and adjacent areas of Cardiff.
Welsh economy cuts predicted to leave £6bn black hole
Ms Griffith said this would force people to cut back on basic items of food and drink. She said: “[These] cuts have barely come into effect yet; £17m of the total cut of £794m is due to be saved this tax year, meaning merely 2% of the total has been …
Welsh rapeseed oil to be marketed as a rival to Italy’s finest olive oils
A small farmers’ co-operative which already produces a high-quality rapeseed oil for the Welsh market is now branching out into Cheshire and Cumbria. Blodyn Aur – Golden Flower in English – is the brand name of the golden liquid that its makers claim …
Welsh MP Alun Cairns urges cut in wind farm subsidy
A south Wales MP says wind farms are inefficient and he has joined over 100 fellow Conservatives to urge a cut in tax subsidies for onshore turbines. Vale of Glamorgan MP Alun Cairns told BBC’s Sunday Politics they are too expensive.
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