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Premier's very short pink shorts star at gallery show

With artist Zaachariaha Fielding showing off Romance Was Born couture and Don Dunstan's infamous shorts, a new exhibition shows textiles really can be radical.

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Wales tourist tax: Proposed new law could have major impact on holidaymakers

Councils could charge tourists staying at Welsh hotels if the law is passed

The Independent UK

Grid operator to outline new energy infrastructure sites in long-term plan

Energy ministers have asked the National Grid operator to produce the first-ever strategic spatial plan for energy across the UK’s land and sea.

Evening Standard

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‘Advergames’: how games platform Roblox became a corporate marketing playground

Advertising to children is strictly regulated – but household brands are flooding the gaming platform Roblox with interactive marketing. Is this a danger to young users?

The Guardian - UK

After adopting its own Green New Deal, a college town sets a new target

Ithaca, N.Y., will require that 50% of the money spent on its energy transition and on major infrastructure projects is directed toward those residents most at risk from climate change.

WEKU

Getting off fossil fuels is hard, but this city is doing it — building by building

Ithaca, N.Y., wants to eliminate greenhouse gasses by 2030 — 20 years faster than the rest of the country. But even in this liberal city meeting climate targets is harder than expected.

WEKU

Wales warns Jeremy Hunt’s budget could force redraw of its own

Cardiff’s finance minister says her 2023 budget could be redundant if the chancellor makes radical tax changes

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Così fan Tutte review – beautifully sung hard lessons in the cash-strapped school of love

Welsh National Opera’s production maxes out on farce in the bet on female infidelity, but the absurdly lovely music antidotes any excess wackiness

The Guardian - UK

Wales has been brave enough to completely rethink the hated council tax. Take note, England

The Senedd’s plan to shift the burden of this levy away from those on lower incomes shows how real levelling up can work, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Wales government announces raft of cuts to public services

Cuts to affect areas from policing to flood risk management as part of effort to protect NHS and support councils

The Guardian - UK

Australia’s Poweroos rev up for home World Cup in ‘$30,000 football boots’

Well placed for a trophy upset, the nation’s powerchair footballers will showcase the sport that helps them ‘forget about our challenges and break boundaries’

The Guardian - AU

Brilliant achievement of little boy badly hurt in M4 crash which killed his mum

Eight-year-old Cian Evans wanted to do something for the people who helped save his life

Wales Online

A Woman With A Disability Has Shared Her Fked Experience Organising Taylor Swift Tickets

Amy Evans and her sister Rebecca say they faced "discrimination" from Ticketek and Frontier Touring while trying to organise Taylor Swift's Eras Tour tickets.

Pedestrian.tv

Huge changes for council tax in Wales are to go ahead

The changes are set to be implemented by April 2025

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Welsh Government announces when tourists will have to pay a tax to stay in Wales

A public consultation found that the majority of respondents agreed that tourists should contribute towards the costs of maintaining and investing in the destinations they stay in

Wales Online

UK Treasury takes back £150m from the Welsh Government because it hadn't spent it quickly enough

Welsh ministers had wanted to use the money to cover infrastructure spending and are furious at Westminster's actions

Wales Online

The Welsh Government responds to England's massive expansion of free childcare

England's changes will transform the economics of work for new parents by giving working parents 30-hours free childcare from the end of their maternity or paternity leave

Wales Online

Help to Buy scheme extended by Welsh Government until 2025

The deadline for applying to the scheme has been extended

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Blaze of Glory! review – WNO’s warm-hearted community opera hits all the right notes

Hymns, jazz, doo-wop and 19th-century French choral numbers form an unlikely patchwork in Caroline Clegg’s dynamic theatrical staging

Wales Online

Opposition MSs accuse Welsh Government of 'lacking candour' on its spending plans

The committee's chair accused Finance Minister Rebecca Evans of failing to make a proper assessment of changing tax rates

ABC News

Tips for new teachers from those whose first day at school did not go to plan

Spare a thought for more than 4,500 graduate teachers taking classes solo for the first time this week. It doesn't always go to plan.

Wales Online

Woman crippled with pain 'cured' by adult toys, so now she makes them to sell

Rebecca was almost trapped in her home because of the pain but can now be pain-free for hours. She now custom makes clay toys to sell to others

Wales Online

£200 payment for lower income families in Wales to be scrapped next year

The Welsh Government announced it would not repeat its winter fuel payments next year as it announced its draft budget for 2022/3

Wales Online

Welsh Government reveals how much money it is giving every local authority in Wales next year

Monmouthshire council is getting the biggest funding increase while Blaenau Gwent is getting the smallest

Wales Online

13 things we've learnt from the Welsh Government budget announcement

It's been described as "unlike any since the start of devolution"

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