Local residents are warmly invited to join Nia Griffith MP to discuss meeting the challenges of an ageing population at 11 am Sat 21st January in the Lliedi Suite of the Selwyn Samuel Centre, a discussion on how we...

We in Llanelli believe firmly in our National Health Service, and so does our Labour Welsh Government – a very different picture from over the border in England where the Tory Government’s latest   legislation threatens to destroy the NHS...

Does travel broaden the mind? By and large foreign travel and better communication, with pictures beamed instantly across the globe have helped to break down prejudice and make us realise how much we have in common. Take the financial...

This week sees the publication of the report by Mary Portas on how to breathe life back into Britain’s declining town centres. There have been many reports before on the subject but to little avail. The problems that we...

James Griffiths, one of my distinguished predecessors as MP for Llanelli, became the first-ever Secretary of State for Wales when the Welsh Office he had long campaigned for was set up in 1964. However, in the final months of...

Many of you will be familiar Reinhold Niebuhr’s ‘serenity’ prayer which asks for wisdom to tell the difference between those things that we can change, and those things which we cannot – so while the solutions to the global...

It is a grim irony that, in this week that marks anti-poverty week, the Conservative-led   government seems determined to do away with the Agricultural Wages Board. One of the key ways of reducing poverty is to ensure that people...

This month sees the implementation of the long awaited Agency Workers Directive, which will give agency workers the right to equal treatment with permanent employees after 12 weeks. There are many agency workers here in Llanelli and millions across...

Since parliamentary debates have been televised, when people think of parliament, they to think of the Chamber, and, in particular the most cutting comments at Prime Minister’s questions – because that’s what the media’s political commentators like best –...

I was privileged to attend the Fun Day recently in Dwyfor, Llwynhendy and had the chance to admire the vegetables that keen gardeners have already grown in the allotments that have only been developed in the last few months...