26/02/2025
Officers patrolled the Alway, Ringland, Lliswerry and Maindee areas of Newport recently as part of Operation Harley, the Gwent Police approach to combating the illegal use of off-road bikes in Gwent.
An electric motorcycle that was being driven without insurance in Alway was seized and a suspected stolen e-bike from Lliswerry was recovered.
Officers also arrested a man in Ringland on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug of class A - cocaine.
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25/02/2025
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council has announced that important measures to promote and improve road safety will be introduced on the A4059 between Abercynon Roundabout and Cwmbach. This follows a review of the road traffic conditions along the route, which was undertaken in response to an increase in high-severity collisions in recent years.
It is estimated the changes which will improve road safety and only add on average 25 seconds to the journey time in each direction, over the distance of Cwmbach to Abercynon – depending upon the time of day.
In December 2024, the Council announced the review had been undertaken and that officers were developing road safety proposals at key sections of the A4059, the main road through the Cynon Valley. Public notices have since been published detailing proposals for change. The Traffic Regulation Order process has recently been completed.
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20/02/2025
Improvements to paths near Ysgol Godre'r Berwyn are having a positive effect and enable more pupils and residents to walk and cycle in this area of Y Bala.
Following concerns about the safety of pupils in the Ysgol Godre'r Berwyn area, Y Bala over the years, Cyngor Gwynedd secured £248,000 of funding from the Welsh Government's Safe Routes in Communities fund to improve active travel options near the school.
Cyngor Gwynedd’s Cabinet Member for Environment, Councillor Craig ab Iago said: “As a Council, we’re committed to enabling more sustainable travel in our communities, and to make it easier for children and families to walk and cycle to and from school.
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13/02/2025
Children in low-income families in Cardiff are benefitting from a new scheme providing free, recycled bikes.
The ReCYCLE scheme forms part of Council's One Planet Cardiff response to climate change and aims to enable more children to use active travel to get to and from school by overcoming the cost barrier of buying a bike.
The donated bikes used in the scheme are all no longer needed by their original owners, but instead of going to waste they are refurbished with recycled parts, ready to be used again.
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04/02/2025
An extra £25m to renew Wales’ major roads and prevent around 30,000 road defects and potholes has been announced by the Welsh Government.
The funding boost will see an extra 100km of the strategic road network resurfaced in the new financial year. Roads that are most in need of repairs will be renewed, with thousands of potholes fixed.
Since 2021 the Welsh Government has spent more than £81m on resurfacing around 321km of roads on the trunk network across Wales. Combined with the forecasted spend for 2025-26 this means that by the end of this Senedd term £118m will have been spent to repair more than 500km of road defects and potholes.
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03/02/2025
Policing’s national operation to tackle drink and drug driving took place again in 2024, throughout the month of December.
South Wales Police officers conducted 4,923 drink driving tests, up 56% on 2023. Of those tests 173 drivers were over the drink drive limit.
Officers also conducted 212 drug driving tests which is 5% more than last year. Of those tests 95 drivers were over the drug drive limit.
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