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The A465 development is one of Wales’ biggest infrastructure projects. Section 2, between Gilwern and Brynmawr, involves the widening of the steep sided and environmentally sensitive Clydach Gorge.

Here are the facts and figures that demonstrate the scale of the scheme.

Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, Lord Elis-Thomas will today launch Creative Wales - to position Wales as the place for creative businesses to thrive.

Wales has become the latest country to join a select group of around 58 nations around the world to end the physical punishment of children.

Education Minister Kirsty Williams published the revised Curriculum for Wales guidance today (Tuesday, January 28) and confirmed an additional £15m to support teachers as they prepare for its implementation.

More than 3,200 children across North Wales are benefiting from the Welsh Government’s childcare offer with over 600 settings now providing it.

In the week Wales and the UK leaves the EU, the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths, has insisted Wales’ thriving food and drinks industry must continue to prosper, following a record year of success.

First Minister Mark Drakeford has asked Wales to stand together and celebrate difference as the world marks the 75^th anniversary of the Holocaust.

Wales’ towns are to receive £90m of additional investment as part of a new Welsh Government approach to transforming town centres across the country, Deputy Minister for Housing and Local Government, Hannah Blythyn announced today.

Minister for International Relations, Eluned Morgan, has backed today’s announcement that the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales has been put forward as a potential UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Welsh Government has doubled the funding available to local authorities and local health boards across Wales to protect, improve and support the mental health of children and young people.

Finance Minister Rebecca Evans has written to the UK Treasury demanding that young people in Wales are helped to gain access to their Child Trust Funds.

THE Health Minister, Vaughan Gething, has approved £3m of funding to bring health services together under one roof in Ruthin.