Ebbw Vale – Jac o' the North

National Development Framework

Jac — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:10:37 +0000

PLEASE APPRECIATE THAT I GET SENT MORE INFORMATION AND LEADS THAN I CAN USE. I TRY TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY USE EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION I’M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR ♦ Last week the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’ produced the first version of the consultation document for its 20-year …

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Weep for Wales 6

Jac — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:45:32 +0000

Well I promised I’d be back, and when you’ve got a gift that keeps on giving . . . As the title suggests, this is the sixth episode in a saga that I’m more convinced than ever will end in tears for the central characters. And they will be the authors of their own downfall. …

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Devolution as Prozac

Jac — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:55:46 +0000

But first . . . A LESSON FROM HISTORY Following victories over the Persians at Salamis (480 BC) and Plataea (479 BC), and with mainland Greece liberated, the Spartans withdrew from their leadership of the wartime alliance. Athens seized the opportunity and in 478 BC created the Delian League. Athenian greed and heavy-handedness soon made the …

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Bits & Pieces: Bear Grylls, Redrow, Llanelli Poles, Ebbw Ponds

Jac — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:15:24 +0000

Bear Grylls: ‘It’s not for me, you understand . . . ‘ I’ve written about Bear Grylls, the television personality, survival expert and tourism operator a couple of times recently. Now I find myself writing about him again. My first mention of Grylls was an almost light-hearted look at his ‘survival camp’ on Llŷn, done only because …

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Welsh Assembly, Time to Move

Jac — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:25:24 +0000

When the incoming Labour government offered us devolution in 1997 I didn’t get too excited, but still, if Kinnock and George Thomas are against it, I thought, then it might have something going for it. So I voted Yes, but only because I saw devolution as a step on the road to independence. Encouraged by …

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Circuit of Wales Revisited

Jac — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:18:26 +0000

When I first heard of the Circuit of Wales project back in the early part of 2013 I was somewhat sceptical of its chances of success, and the reasons for my scepticism were set out in Vroom, Vroom – The Next Gravy Train? Despite being doubtful that the project would ever materialise I was (in …

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Fleece Jacket Fascists

Jac — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:21:21 +0000

This year saw a heated debate that most Welsh people would have been unaware was even taking place; not surprising seeing as it was about Marine Conservation Zones in the north west. Eventually, the protests of commercial fishermen and others saw the ‘Welsh’ Government do a U-turn. These Zones had been proposed with the support …

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