UK Parliament Week 2021
UK Parliament Week takes place next week from 1-7 November. This year the focus is how small actions can lead to big changes, encouraging local people to get informed, take action and make an impact on issues they care...
Local hauliers mark National Lorry week
Great to see real can-do attitude at Llanelli family firm Owens Group, and hear how they stepped in at very short notice to deliver PPE in the pandemic, and are training up apprentice HGV drivers, but, as we start...
Thank you Llanelli & District League of Hospital Friends!
Real privilege last night to be with the amazing Llanelli and District League of Hospital Friends to celebrate their 50th Anniversary…. and to congratulate them on 50 years of fantastic fundraising efforts for hospital services in Llanelli, and see...
Coleg Sir Gar students help out at Goods Shed project
Massive thank you to public service students from Coleg Sir Gar for all your hard work helping to clear the ground outside the Llanelli Railway Goods Shed, as well as your great ideas about what you’d like to see...
Retailer launches new sustainability plans
Great to visit Primark in Llanelli to hear about the company’s new sustainability strategy. It is encouraging to see such a big retailer making commitments to sustainability, from eliminating single-use plastic to ensuring that all Primark clothing is recyclable...
Lee Waters MS joins me to view Goods Shed transformation progress
Many thanks to my great colleague and friend Lee Waters, local MS and Deputy Minister for Climate Change ( with responsibility, amongst many other things, for regeneration ) for coming to see Phase 1 transformation of Goods Shed Office...
Dolen Teifi Community Transport
Privilege to attend celebration of excellent work by Dolen Teifi in providing community transport including in Llanelli and, with support from John Burns, in Kidwelly & see launch of electric 7-seater vehicles. Many thanks to all involved, including 900...
Cancel the Universal Credit Cut!
Yesterday in Parliament, I warned the Secretary of State for Wales of the devastating effect that the Tory £20 a week Universal Credit cut will have on 7,650 households in Llanelli and also on our local economy. It is...
Great model of the Goods Shed by Des
Huge thanks to Des Thomas, from the Llanelli and Mynydd Mawr Railway for giving us this amazing model of the Goods Shed, which he made himself, taking many painstaking hours to make a very accurate replica, reproducing the exact...
Many may be unable to vote in future if Tory Voter ID plans get go ahead
Millions of people across the UK, including many in Llanelli, may be excluded from their democratic right to vote under plans put forward today by the Conservative UK Government, according to local MP, Nia Griffith. In the recent Queen’s...