ELY RIOTS: Cardiff Council confirmed today that it has served eviction notices on 17 households related to people charged for rioting in Ely in May 2023. 

The riot occurred after the deaths of 15-year-old Harvey Evans and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, who were on an e-bike that had been chased by a South Wales Police van. 

The council said that it was a warning of further action, but it will not necessarily lead to eviction.

WELSH FOREST: Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies launched Wales’s first timber industrial strategy today. 

The Welsh government is planning to increase the scale and value of timber grown and timber products produced across Wales. 

Mr Irranca-Davies said: “I want our forests to be in active, sustainable and diverse use, providing economic, environmental, social and cultural benefits.

“Timber and wood fibre can make an immediate and important contribution to the materials transition needed for decarbonisation.”

HELL IN WALES: An article painting a picture of Llanelli in south Wales as a town of drug addicts and with shops all boarded up was condemned by the town council leader as lazy journalism. A Daily Mail article about the town portrays it as lawless and desolate.

Llanelli Town Council Labour leader Cllr David Darkin told news website Nation.Cymru that the article painted a picture of a town in terminal decline and was a lazy caricature.

SCHOOL ROW: Plans to close an English-medium primary school and open a Welsh-medium school on the site have provoked outrage in the village of Wyesham, Monmouth. Monmouthshire County Council has denied plans to close Kymin View Primary School, saying they were “entirely speculative,” but did confirm there were surplus places.

The council has met head teachers, staff and governors from four schools in the area to consider the surplus places and the need to deal with them.