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A Tudor dance troupe, based at Cadw’s Plas Mawr house, recently won a volunteering award for their work in bringing museum learning to life.

• The UK and Welsh Governments have introduced major legislation with new powers to bring criminal charges against water executives and a ban on bonuses. 

• Next stage in fixing the water industry is the launch of a wide-reaching Independent Commission to strengthen regulation, boost investment and inform further reform of the water sector. 

• Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England Sir Jon Cunliffe appointed to Chair the Commission focusing on tackling inherited systemic problems and securing the infrastructure we need to meet the challenges of the future and clean up Britain’s rivers, lakes and seas. 

£1.5m has been announced by the Welsh Government to support and expand safe and warm places for people of all ages to access within local communities.

As world leaders gather this week at the Biodiversity COP16 in Cali and a month before world leaders gather at Baku for COP 29, the Welsh Government has published a strategy focused on delivering a Wales adapted for our changing climate.

Pen y Dre High School in Merthyr Tydfil will become Wales first refurbished net zero carbon school.

On Anti-Slavery Day (Friday 18 October), Social Justice Secretary Jane Hutt has reaffirmed the Welsh Government’s commitment to working in partnership to overcome the immense challenges of modern slavery.

County Flats is Tai Tarian’s most ambitious development to date and will see the transformation of 72 existing flats as well as the creation of 55 new homes. 

In her first overseas visit as First Minister, Eluned Morgan is in Dublin and Cork this week as part of engagements to strengthen further the links between Wales and Ireland.  

The words of Adele, who is now studying to be teacher, after attending a Welsh Government funded, teacher recruitment event in Cardiff.

Before the Welsh Government introduced its groundbreaking second homes and affordability pilot in Dwyfor, only one Homebuy completion was approved in the area in five years.

A business with a reputation for delivering high-quality steel products is expanding its operations and extending its headquarters with support from the Welsh Government.

Thanks to over £100,000 of Welsh Government funding, researchers at Cardiff Metropolitan University are developing a new set of tests to improve the identification of literacy difficulties in Welsh medium secondary school pupils.