Wales

The long goodbye to blast furnace no. 4 is nearly over, as Port Talbot stands on the precipice of becoming a ‘steel town’ stripped of its ability to make its own ‘virgin’ steel. It is a huge moment.

The government has confirmed it’s giving Tata Steel £500m towards building a greener electric furnace in Port Talbot. 

We spoke to the Diabetes Adviser for NHS England, Professor Partha Kar, as well John Barber, Deputy Director of the research and innovation institute, Nesta and Chef Giancarlo Caldese.

By 2050, 500 million more people across the world are likely to have Diabetes, mostly Type 2. In the UK the direct cost for the NHS is already estimated to run at over £10 billion a year.

Health Minister Eluned Morgan has been confirmed as the first female leader of Welsh Labour.

As you saw earlier in the programme, Keir Starmer began his day in southwest Wales, warning there are lots of undecided voters out there, still to be convinced.

We’re joined by journalist Martin Shipton, who’s the associate editor of Nation Cymru.

The Wales First Minister Vaughan Gething broke down in tears in the Senedd as he lost a no confidence vote just 77 days after he was elected.

The Welsh health minister during the Covid pandemic has admitted that losing his WhatsApp messages is a “real embarrassment”. Vaughan Gething told the UK Covid Inquiry that his messages were wiped in 2022 during a phone upgrade. On Saturday he will find out if he has won the contest to become Welsh Labour leader and…

Many farmers in the UK and in other parts of Europe are angry and are not afraid to take to the streets in protest.

The Welsh Parliament, the Senedd, was told that Vaughan Gething – who is one of the candidates to succeed Mark Drakeford as Welsh Labour leader and First Minister – had not breached the ministerial code. It follows news that he’d accepted 200 thousand pounds in donations for his leadership campaign.

The Welsh government has just launched its new strategy to combat child poverty – but it’s already come in for fierce criticism from charities and campaigners, who say it lacks any specific targets to measure progress.

The mother of a 13-year-old who died after he was pushed into a South Wales river has called again for the teenager who did it to be prosecuted.

We spoke to the MP for the Port Talbot area, Labour’s Stephen Kinnock and began by asking him about the potential impact of Tata Steel’s decision.

There are reports tonight that steel giant Tata is to press ahead with plans to close blast furnaces at its biggest plant, threatening thousands of jobs.