11 h. ago London Welsh school's future uncertain as first minister has doubts

London Welsh school's future uncertain as first minister has doubts  BBC

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4 d. ago US supreme court begins releasing decisions on last day of term – live updates

Big decisions that could come today include: LGBTQ+ content in schools, the future of a Louisiana congressional district, and birthright citizenshipThe Trump administration is readying a package of executive actions aimed at boosting energy supply to power the US expansion of artificial intelligence, according to four sources familiar with the planning, Reuters reports.US and China are locked in a technological arms race and with it secure an economic and military edge. The huge amount of data processing behind AI requires a rapid increase in power supplies that are straining utilities and grids in many states.The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza, Palestine, launched one month ago, is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies.With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid and must be immediately dismantled Contin...

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7 d. ago From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball

Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings their owners couldn’t seeIt’s hard to imagine London without the mighty riverside citadels of Tate Modern and Battersea power station, or bereft of the ornate Victorian market halls of Smithfield and Billingsgate. It is equally difficult to picture Yorkshire without its majestic sandstone mills, Grimsby without its fishing docks, or parts of Liverpool without their streets of terrace houses. Yet all these things could have victims of the wrecking ball, if it weren’t for one small band of plucky activists. You may not have heard of Save Britain’s Heritage, or Save as it likes to style itself. But the tiny charity, which celebrates its 50th birthday this month, has had more influence than any other group in campaigning for the imaginative reuse of buildings at risk, most of which had no ...

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1 week ago England's only Welsh language school 'could close' as Welsh Government withdraws £90k funding

Ysgol Gymraeg Llundain, in Ealing in London is the only Welsh language school outside of Wales

Economics

1 week ago Huge Welsh floating windfarm with turbines as tall as London's The Shard takes massive step forward

The project is one of two in the Celtic Sea and is expected to create thousands of jobs in Port Talbot and Bristol where the giant turbines are hoped to be made

Events

2 w. ago Rightmove's most viewed house in 2025 is in Wales and it's probably down to one very unusual feature

Five fabulous homes have been the most popular online, from a castle to a London mega mansion to a wonderful Welsh abode - with something quite unexpected in one of the rooms

Politics

2 w. ago Welsh Bible printed in 1588 to go on display in Wales for first time

The bible has been kept in Westminster Abbey’s library collection since the year it was printed.

Politics

2 w. ago Senior Government Minister hears young people’s aspirations for future as funding announced

At today’s Scottish Robotic Games, the first to be held at Leonardo in Edinburgh since the pandemic, The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, The Rt Hon Darren Jones MP, spoke to students from schools across Scotland about their aspirations for the future.

Politics

3 w. ago How ordinary men became unpaid Taliban enforcers in their own homes

Afghan fathers, brothers and husbands are under pressure to ensure the women in their families observe the country’s repressive laws. Here, men and women across the country explain how it is affecting family bondsTo be a father of daughters in the Taliban’s Afghanistan has become a daily nightmare for Amir. Now, he says, he is more prison guard than loving parent, an unwilling and unpaid enforcer of a system of gender apartheid that he despises yet feels compelled to inflict on his two teenage girls in order to protect them from the Taliban’s rage and reprisals.Just a few years ago, Amir’s daughters had a life and a future. They went to school, to see friends and moved around their community. Now, he says he would prefer it if his daughters never left the house. He, like many other fathers in Afghanistan, has heard stories about what can happen to young women who find themselves in the crosshairs of the Taliban’s “morality police”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Colin Jackson leads Welsh athletes urging government to back London 2029 World Championships bid

Olympic 110m hurdles silver medallist Jackson, Iwan Thomas, Jeremiah Azu, Dai Greene, Christian Malcolm and Joe Brier, are among the signatories in a powerful open letter calling on ministers to bring the World Athletics Championships to London in 2029

Politics

4 w. ago Back to the Future stars seek help in hunt for missing Marty McFly guitar

Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd make plea to help track down cherry red Gibson, 40 years after film’s releaseMarty McFly grabbed a guitar in Back to the Future and rocked out with the band at a 1950s high school dance, helping him narrowly avoid blinking out of existence before time-traveling back to the 1980s.The guitar, in real life, wasn’t as lucky. Continue reading...

Events

4 w. ago Where's Marty McFly's guitar? Search is on for 'Back to the Future' prop 4 decades later

Marty McFly grabbed a guitar in “Back to the Future” and rocked out with the band at a 1950s high school dance, helping him narrowly avoid blinking out of existence before time-traveling back to the 1980s

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4 w. ago Russia threatens UK with nuclear apocalypse after Keir Starmer's defence warning

Kremlin propagandists Vladdimir Solovyov threatened Brits with "painful" radiation deaths and urged Welsh and Scottish people to declare independence from London before it was too late

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