another day of strikes more than 1,000 ambulance staff in wales walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions. meanwhile in england, nurses continue their strike action for a second day in a row. new zealand s prime minister jacinda ardern makes a surprise announcement saying she ll stand down in less than three weeks time. a day of national strikes begins in france over plans to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64. king charles asks for millions of pounds in profits from the crown estate to be used for the wider public good rather than for the royal family. the government has released details of projects which will benefit from its levelling up fund, which is intended to spread economic growth more widely across the uk. in all, £2.1 billion will be spent on regeneration projects. they span more than a hundred areas across the country. some of the biggest winners include a new eden project at morecambe bay which gets £50 million. there s 50 million pounds for
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The streets where i grew up havent changed much. You cant say that for the Beating Heart of the capital. Now i know not everyone enjoys hearing a cardiff accent, like, and many people around wales view my city with suspicion. They tell me that almost daily on my radio show. And, in a way, i can see why, because, lets face it, cardiff has benefited just from being our capital city. But fair play to the place, its taken its chance, reinventing itself against all the odds. I used to come to butetown to go to the mosque. It was the docks back then derelict and depressed. Old, heavy industries were shrinking, as was cardiffs population. But then things began to change. Just look at cardiff now. This city has completely transformed itself in around 20 yea rs. The jobs are in government, theyre in media, in leisure and also in shopping. It describes itself as europes youngest capital and its got even more growing to do. My dad used to be a bus driver and finished up on this very route, taking
I was born and bred in this city. The streets where i grew up havent changed much. You cant say that for the Beating Heart of the capital. Now, i know not everyone enjoys hearing a cardiff accent, like, and many people around wales view my city with suspicion. They tell me that almost daily on my radio show. And, in a way, i can see why, because, lets face it, cardiff has benefited just from being our capital city. But fair play to the place, its taken its chance, reinventing itself against all the odds. I used to come to butetown to go to the mosque. It was the docks back then derelict and depressed. Old, heavy industries were shrinking, as was cardiffs population. But then things began to change. Just look at cardiff now. This city has completely transformed itself in around 20 years. The jobs are in government, theyre in media, in leisure and also in shopping. It describes itself as europes youngest capital and its got even more growing to do. My dad used to be a bus driver and fini
pay increase, and they say it is up to the westminster uk government to hand down more money down the m4 to cardiff bay, if they are able to offer any more. so at the moment it seems to be a stalemate and we are likely to have far more of these scenes over the coming weeks. of any ofthe thereby injure giving you any indication of what it would take what would be acceptable to them in terms of an offer to call off this industrial action? terms of an offer to call off this industrial action? well, we know from the latest industrial action? well, we know from the latest figures industrial action? well, we know from the latest figures that i from the latest figures that inflation is still around 10% and therefore something that gets them close to 10% overall increase in their pay, at the moment is only 4%, so even if there was thousand pounds per worker cash offer on top for this year, that might get them there for this year but obviously it would not be sufficient for future years. s