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Holyhead 3G pitch A flurry of Welsh Government grants saw Anglesey Council finish the financial year with a significant surplus, prompting calls for the cash to be spent on new infrastructure projects. Having ended 2020/21 with an underspend of £4.197m, it was acknowledged that the authority’s financial situation is now in a better position than earlier predicted. Cllr Robin Williams, the portfolio holder for finance, said it was mainly down to unexpected and ‘late in the day’ Welsh Government grants and a phenomenon shared across many local authorities. The authority’s 151 officer, Marc Jones, told Monday’s Corporate Scrutiny Committee meeting, “We’ve underspent by just over £4m during the year which means our balances have now risen to £11.6m which is a very healthy situation.
Holyhead-based councillor, Glyn Haynes, was unanimously selected to the ceremonial role during Tuesday’s full council meeting. First elected in 2017 as a Labour councillor for the Caergybi ward, Cllr Haynes is an active trade union activist, spending 20 years at sea before working at Eaton/MEM Electrical and becoming a full-time Union Convenor before being made redundant. Unanimously selected after two years serving as Cllr Margaret Murley Roberts’ deputy, he compared the honour to his beloved Everton “winning the FA Cup or Premier League!” Announcing his nominated charity as St David’s Hospice at Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley in Holyhead, Cllr Haynes said: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank my fellow councillors for electing me and giving me the honour and privilege of serving the people of Ynys Môn as the County Council’s civic head for 2021 to 2022.
Coronavirus illustrative picture. Lessons learned from the response to last month’s Holyhead outbreak will be used to help control any similar spikes in other Welsh communities. A flurry in cases in the port town last month prompted fears of a local lockdown as authorities implemented a raft of measures to ramp up testing and stifle the further spread of Covid-19. Community measures led by Anglesey Council in March included over 6,000 PCR tests being delivered door to door as well as another 3,600 rapid testing kits for secondary school pupils and their support bubbles. 800 also attended a specially set up mobile testing unit in the town as well as another 290 being tested at a separate centre for those not showing any Covid-19 symptoms.