Cardiff and Vale College students Ieuan Morris-Brown and Ruby pile have come away from the WorldSkills UK Finals with a gold and silver medal respectively.
Local people who enjoy using Brechfa Forest, Carmarthenshire, are invited to a drop-in session to find out how Natural Resources Wales (NRW) plans to manage the woodlands over the next 10 years.
The problem they got in and there was no problem whatsoever I also want to thank the Iraqi government they really stepped up I spoke to the prime minister today I thanked him but they stepped up very nicely tough new rules on song for all signed emissions from ships have come into force to combat air pollution the International Maritime Organization has banned the ships from using fuels with a sulfur content of more the north point 5 percent compared with 3.5 percent now shipping companies have been preparing for the software cap for months about the changes costly world news from the b.b.c. . The u.n. World Food Program says it faces monumental humanitarian challenges in the coming year it s identified parts of Africa as the most threatened by food shortages including South Sudan the Democratic Republic of Congo and they saw how the region in Zimbabwe the agency says the combined effects of drought and an imploding economy have driven the number of hungry people to the highest level
Here s our world affairs correspondent Paul Adams at the start of the year when Donald Trump hopes to be reelected the president who has repeatedly said he wants to get American troops out of the Middle East is sending an additional 750 in its top they ll fly to a base in Kuwait from where around 100 Marines were sent to the Baghdad embassy last night the fortified compound which was never in any real danger yesterday seems quiet enough this morning but the anger generated by last weekend s airstrikes has once again pitted the trumpet ministration against Iran and its proxies around the Middle East one of Mr Trump s last tweets of the year was a warning to Iran that it will be held responsible for any American lives lost figures collated by the b.b.c. Show the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats was more than 6 times higher in 2019 then in the previous year 283 people were intercepted by Border Force officials in December alone Simon Jones reports from Dover