Stop that sneeze
Stop that sneeze by licking the roof of your mouth. You can prevent yourself sneezing by placing your tongue firmly against the roof of your mouth and keeping it there. With practice, you can prevent yourself sneezing, or failing...
Supporting fair trade fortnight
Good to meet pupils from Stebonheath School at Felinfoel Co-op on Friday learning about fair trade, just one of many activities in Llanelli for fair trade fortnight this year. I look forward to presenting awards to the participating schools...
Network Rail to hand over Goods Shed
Very positive meeting with Network Rail last week about handing over the Llanelli Railway Goods Shed to us to transform into a community hub. All we need now is for them to speed up the paperwork to meet the...
Call on PM to help flood-hit areas
With Wales so badly hit by flooding, as Welsh Labour MPs, we have written to the Prime Minister to stress the need for additional funding to help deal with the devastation.
Opening Tyisha food and uniform bank
Privileged to open Tyisha foodbank and uniform bank organised by Cllrs Suzy Curry and Andre McPherson to help those in need. Open Tuesdays 5-7pm and Saturdays 8.30am – 10am. For info about getting help or making donations of food...
A step forward for LGBT inclusive education in Wales
As we mark LGBT history month here in Llanelli, another step forward by the Welsh Labour Government in making it compulsory for all school pupils to receive the new curriculum Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) which is LGBT+ inclusive,...
MPs visit the Arctic
Thanks to the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, we were privileged to to visit our Royal Marines undertaking cold weather training in the North of Norway, some 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle. We heard and saw at first hand...
Must up our cyber security
This week at RUSI (Royal United Services Institute) we discussed the huge challenge of how we protect ourselves from Cyber attack….. not just public sector but private sector essentials like food distribution……need real political will if we are to...
Trim and Mynydd visit Parliament
Delighted that pupils from Trimsaran and Mynyddygarreg schools were able to visit Parliament this month. A great opportunity to see our democracy in action.
Pride Youth visit parliament
Glad that Llanelli’s Pride Youth Committee managed to find time to visit Parliament in this LGBT history month. Thank you for all you are doing in school and college to combat prejudice and promote tolerance and celebration of diversity.