Five new stations in Newport, Cardiff and Monmouthshire, plus upgrades in north Wales are on the cards.
Month: June 2025
Gardens £10m revamp inspired by Southport victims
The vision for the new space is inspired by Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice Aguiar, and Bebe King.
Reeves’s spending priorities leave little wiggle room
The chancellor’s focus on the NHS and defence will mean a spending squeeze elsewhere, writes the BBC’s political editor.
Scrap Chagos Islands deal and agree new one, UN panel urges UK
A UN human rights panel says the deal “fails to guarantee” the rights of Chagossians.
Sting says governments have neglected the North East for decades
The musician is says he is donating an undisclosed amount to the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
World War Two secret agents’ house put up for sale
Lochaber’s Inverlair Lodge was a “workshop” for WW2 agents deemed unfit for active duties.
Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales
The government plans to scrap the Vagrancy Act and bring in laws to focus on crimes like organised begging by gangs.
Twix ad banned for encouraging unsafe driving
The video advert shows a car chase that ends with two caramel-coloured cars on top of each other.
MPs set to vote on decriminalising abortion in England and Wales
Women would never be prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy under proposed new laws.
Police name man and daughter killed in house fire
Sohaib Ahmed, 38, Manahal Ahmed, nine, died following the fire in Heckmondwike on Sunday.
