PEACE CAMPAIGN: Stop the War Cymru is tomorrow launching a new group in Newport at the Pen & Wig, Stow Hill, NP20 1JD at 7 pm. Speakers include Stop the War Coalition’s Lindsey German and Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Betty Hunter.

Stop the War Cymru co-chair Lujane Abdallah said: “We welcome the new branch in Newport and urge people in the city to attend our meeting and register their opposition to the destruction of Gaza and the genocide being committed.”

COVID SCRUTINY:  Welsh nationalists today called for a Wales-specific Covid inquiry ahead of the Britain-wide inquiry’s Welsh chapter due to begin next Monday. Plaid Cymru called for the Welsh government to establish an inquiry to be accountable for its decisions.

Welsh Labour has refused to hold a Wales-specific inquiry despite there being one in Scotland. Covid Inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallet has indicated that it would still be possible for a Wales-specific one to be established.

REDUCED SPEED: Wales climate change minister Lee Waters welcomed new data published today on the default 20mph speed limit on Welsh roads as a “turning point.”

The data shows that speeds have reduced by an average of 4mph on main roads since the national rollout of the controversial new speed limit last September. The data from Transport for Wales shows that average speeds on main roads dropped from 28.9mph to 24.8mph.

CEASEFIRE CALL: On February 21, 1924, four Welsh women took a petition signed by 390,296 women to the White House calling on the US government to join the League of Nations as a way to avoid future wars.

Plaid Cymru’s Sioned Williams is the great-granddaughter of one of the four women and initiated a debate in the Senedd today to mark the anniversary and wrote to the  Westminster and Welsh governments urging them to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.