County hall, Carmarthen Carmarthenshire County Council has secured an additional £1.5 million for a second phase of the Celtic Routes tourism project. The successful bid was made on behalf of the Celtic Routes partnership to the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) which will take the project through to 2023. Celtic Routes is a partnership project between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire County Councils and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority in Wales and Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford County Councils in Ireland. It’s a branded collection of tourism experiences encouraging travellers to visit Ireland and Wales to discover the Celtic spirit by suggesting immersive and authentic experiences in West Wales and South East Ireland.
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Oxford and Coventry are set to become the […]
areas could be awarded up to £50 million each to introduce all-electric bus services
up to 500 buses could be replaced – saving 1000s of tonnes of CO2 each year – and helping the country build back greener
19 towns and cities applied to the all-electric bus competition
Coventry and Oxford are developing proposals to become the first parts of the UK to run all-electric bus services, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced today (6 January 2021).
The cities are developing business cases in an England-wide competition to switch an entire town or city’s bus fleet to electric vehicles.
Subject to successful business cases, each area could be awarded up to £50 million to not only replace its entire fleet of buses with all-electric versions, but to also install new infrastructure, such as charging stations, and pay for electric grid updates.
Travel to second or holiday homes is not permitted under Welsh Government Alert Level 4 restrictions PEMBROKESHIRE County Council is emphasising that travel to second or holiday homes is not permitted under Welsh Government Alert Level 4 restrictions. The message follows reports of people travelling into Pembrokeshire to second or holiday homes since the restrictions came into force at midnight on Saturday. The restrictions state: “Travel in Wales without a reasonable excuse is an offence while alert level 4 restrictions are in place. “Travelling into, out of or within Wales to visit, check, inspect, or stay in a second home or holiday home is not a reasonable excuse.
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