17+ hour, 17+ min ago   (717+ words) So begins Cad Goddeu — The Battle of the Trees — one of the most enigmatic and haunting poems preserved within medieval Welsh literature. The poem unsettles modern expectations from its opening lines. Trees do not merely frame the landscape or decorate…...

18+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1097+ words) ‘If Wales had a great poet in the 19th century it was the young William Thomas (Islwyn, 1832-78).’¹ Glyn Tegai Hughes published those words at the end of the 20th century. Statements proclaiming this writer to be ‘the best’ and that poet to…...

19+ hour, 24+ min ago   (660+ words) Disgraced former BBC presenter Huw Edwards says he questioned whether people would think he had the “right to speak” as he rebuilds a public platform following his conviction for making indecent images of children. Edwards was sentenced to six months…...

20+ hour, 13+ min ago   (679+ words) ‘Sometimes old traditions are thrown up like dust along a summer road. You glimpse them briefly in the sunbeams…’ This quiet, yet profound book, and one I took great pleasure in reading, is a collection of such moments and memories,…...

23+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1168+ words) Twenty years after writing a book celebrating Radnorshire and exploring its place in Welsh history, Peter J Conradi returns to the landscape, literature and people that inspired it – and considers what has changed. Twenty years ago I wrote At the…...

23+ hour, 45+ min ago   (393+ words) Bruce Sinclair Local Democracy Reporter Plans to move workers out of a ‘blast zone’ at a major oil refinery in west Wales have been approved as part of a new laboratory and workshop development. In an application recommended for approval…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (278+ words) Dave Clark, Press Association Former chancellor George Osborne said Britain’s economy has “fallen off a cliff” since Brexit and that rejoining the European Union’s customs union would be the fastest route to recovery. Mr Osborne, who resigned as chancellor after…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (919+ words) Most people would consider the building of a grand museum glorifying a notorious dictator estimated to be personally responsible for the deaths of around 10 million people as an act of grotesque folly and gross insensitivity. That such a museum – which…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (826+ words) Plaid Cymru politicians have called for a major consultation on the future of NHS services to be paused, warning that communities are being offered “different models of centralisation” rather than meaningful choices. Eight of the party’s elected representatives in Powys…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (755+ words) A Welsh MP has accused the country’s environmental regulator of having “lost control” as he demands answers over a suspected pollution incident that turned a stream red. Henry Tufnell, Member of Parliament for Mid and South Pembrokeshire, took to social…...