Thanks to the Google Ads on the Forum, I found Wales1000Things this evening.
A bit like a cross between Flickr and YouTube, 1000Things is the place to post your content related to Wales.
Take a look around the site and also download a brochure and you may win one of twenty £250 Blacks Online vouchers. […]

Beep beep bbbeeep beep… hello, this is Rhondda calling…
Radio Cwmni launches in the Rhondda in less than a month. Unfortunately, it’ll only be on the air for a month but there’s a second visit planned for later in the year.
Via: Rhondda Today
Link: Leighton Andrews, AM for the Rhondda
Link: Treherbert.info

Should they prove successful winning power in the upcoming elections, Plaid Cyrmu has plans in the works for a “National Living Wage” among a great many other improvements geared toward citizens of Wales. Pledging the Plaid assembly government would be “the most open and transparent administration in Europe” Ieuan Wyn Jones also announced a […]

In today’s 5 minute news update from BBC they tell us it has been “recommended” that the powers that be lay off a considerable number (400) of staff from the Cranberry Foods factory in Abergavenny. Dumping employees at Abergavenny and moving jobs to Derbyshire is going to have a significant impact on the local […]

Debate, of course! Apparently disgruntled at Wales’ win in the bidding wars for the military training base in Glamorgan, some English MPs have taken exception to the selection process. But First Minister Rhodri Morgan assures us there were no ‘foul means’ involved in the bid.
BBC Story 

Great news for Wales and the South East in particular as the Government confirms that a new defence training academy will be based at St Athan, near Cardiff.   In addition to the creation of the new jobs, the academy will bring an estimated £58m into the local economy annually.
The BBC reports that £16bn will be invested […]

In what’s shaping up to be a battle of words, Welsh secretary Peter Hain seems to feel the UK is in danger of breaking apart. This contention has been counterd by Plaid Deputy Leader, Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM, suggests Mr. Hain is out to cause concern to boost support for the Labour Party.
Mr. Thomas […]

You see some strange things whilst travelling the roads of the world and Wales is no exception. 
Traffic Wales is the Welsh Assembly Government’s traffic information service and it has collated a list of 10 of the strangest sights seen.
Traffic Wales’ 10 strangest sights
1. A man dressed as Father Christmas tied to a gantry.
2. Two small […]

7,786 households,
49% had Internet access,
>25% had a concessionary bus pass,
24% of people provided unpaid help to someone who was not a relation.
Just a few of the statistics which resulted from the 2005 Living in Wales Survey commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government.  The 2005 Survey was the second such survery to be commissioned currently managed […]

“Dim Ysmygu” - if you grew up in Wales then you’d know what that means - just like you know what ‘Araf’ and ‘Gwasanaethau’ mean (’Slow’ and ‘Services’ respectively - road signs).
However, as Assembly Member Glyn Davies reports, the Welsh Assembly have decided to implement a new sign reading: ‘Mae ysmygu yn y fangre hon […]

The opposition is holding strong against Labour’s budget proposal unless it includes more funding for schools and universities. Chancellor Gordon Brown, however, has proposed an extra ­£165m for Wales over the next four years, with £9m available next year.  The indication is that the Conservatives will back this new proposed budget if enough of the […]

Looks like the valley town of Merthyr Tydfil is the first of three locations to gain a new Assembly Building. In addition to adding a sizable number of public sector jobs, the civil servants who work there will be handling such issues as social justice, housing and European funding. “The aim of the move is […]