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Recent rising flood waters forced the residents of some of the houses on Teifi Terrace, Newcastle Emlyn to evacuate once again. For most in Teifi Terrace the worst effects were averted by the flood barriers that they themselves had installed since the severe flooding of Storm Callum in 2018. In addition to flood barriers and sandbags, purchased and loaned pumps were employed as soon as the water started to come into their homes. After much help from families and friends, all bar one wer...

Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond on the election campaign trail in 2015, before their acrimonious parting of the ways THE Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond case is reaching the proportions of farce. Not only have prominent witnesses "forgotten" dates and facts, and not only have the Permanent Secretary and the Lord Advocate stonewalled on legitimate questions. Now we find that we have paid £55,000 for the "preparation" of witnesses – witnesses whose testimony is so inadequate that the...

THE Ilkley Labour Party has joined Leeds North West MP, Alex Sobel, in calling for stronger legal commitments to tackling the climate crisis. In their last meeting of the year, the local branch of the Labour Party agreed unanimously to support the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (CEE Bill) which would “set an emergency path for the UK to follow” and allow it to play a “fair and proper role in limiting global temperatures to 1.5°C.” Alex Sobel, MP for Leeds North West, has a...