Fair trade fortnight
Next week is the beginning of fair trade fortnight, and it is now over five years since Wales became a fair trade nation. The concept of fair trade is now well-understood, simply that paying people a fair price for...
STOP PRESS: Urgent talks for sports clubs
Stop press: Message from Nia Griffith MP, “I have held urgent talks with Cllr Deryk Cundy, Chair of the Regeneration and Leisure Scrutiny Committee, and shown him the stark figures of the planned sports’ fee hikes. As a result,...
Nia Griffith MP supports sports’ clubs
Nia Griffith MP has slammed the council’s proposed hikes in playing field fees, saying “These proposals to hike pitch fees look like they have just been generated and spat out of a computer, without any consideration given to what...
STOP PRESS – St John Lloyd’s bus campaign update
Nia Griffith MP has welcomed the good news that the Council’s executive board have thrown out the suggestion to cut the transport to St John Lloyd’s School, and they have confirmed that they will not even contemplate such a...
MP calls for residents to have stronger powers to ban sex clubs
Local residents should have more say on the licensing of sex clubs according to Nia Griffith MP, who is sponsoring a parliamentary bill which would give local communities stronger powers to limit the proliferation of sexual entertainment venues such...
Derek Vaughan MEP visits Llanelli
Derek Vaughan MEP joined Nia Griffith MP and Keith Davies AM on a visit to the Llanelli Tesco ‘s store on Friday to meet Usdaw trade union members who are taking up opportunities to improve their skills. With financial...
Nia continues fight for hospital services
Nia Griffith MP has met with the officers of the SOSPPAN – Save Our Services Prince Philip Action Network to discuss next moves and how to keep the pressure up on the Hywel Dda Health Board to maintain services...
12,000 tonnes of steel in the Shard
People ask me if I get out and about and see London: the answer is very rarely as I am in Westminster on weekdays and we don’t finish until late in the evening. However a fortnight ago I was...
Nia calls coal gasification meeting
Last Saturday over 250 people came to a meeting on underground coal gasification organised by Nia Griffith MP and local Labour councillors in Burry Port Memorial Hall. After Nia Griffith, who was chairing the meeting had welcomed everyone, she...
Nia speaks up on rural energy
Speaking up in a parliamentary debate on rural issues, Nia Griffith MP has pointed out that far from living the stereotypical rural idyll, many people in rural and semi rural constituencies like Llanelli where villages grew up around former...
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