New research from Wales shows the level of concern at what might happen to creative industries after Brexit.
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A survey of creative businesses in Wales reveals concern over labour force, red tape and access to European markets and funding sources.
Holiday birthdays are lonely.
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December 25 is the least popular day to give birth in the US, Australia and New Zealand, and second only to Boxing Day on Dec. 26 in England, Wales and Ireland.
Welsh weavers, here in traditional costume that would not have been known to some of the poorest weavers to benefit from slave-driven demand for cloth.
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How even sleepy, rural Mid Wales was once an industrial heartland feeding the slave trade.
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Wales is one small country with big carbon targets but that still needs the policies to deliver them.
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NICE guidelines suggest that boys who come to come to A&E because of self-harm should be admitted to hospital. Often, this isn’t happening.
What … no bluebirds?
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London is a tourist magnet, but the rest of the UK desperately needs investment and promotion. Brexit is not helping.
The NHS is one of Wales’s biggest employers, and biggest spenders too.
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NHS Wales takes the biggest share of public spending and supports 11% of the total employed and self-employed.
Demonstrators in Scotland make their feelings toward Boris Johnson known.
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The £300m extra funding apparently bypasses the official block funding mechanism that has been in operation since devolution.
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The independence movement is growing in Wales but it’s not clear whether it would be able to go it alone.
Under the new curriculum, Welsh will be used in every single lesson, not just language lessons.
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Wales’s schools mostly teach in English at present but its new curriculum will make Welsh language part of every lesson in all schools.
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New research has found several physical and mental health indicators that often appear before an eating disorder diagnosis.
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Scotland is eyeing another independence referendum and now Wales wants in on the act. England feels left behind and Northern Ireland is at the centre of the Brexit impasse. Things aren’t fine.
This isn’t goodbye.
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To become an attractive prospect for electric car manufacturers, the UK needs to sort out its supplies of rare earths – Brexit, or no Brexit.
Can street art out of context still tell the same story?
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As the Port Talbot Banksy is moved to a new street art museum, the very reason it was created is being ignored.
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To hit emissions targets, Wales will need to drastically reassess how 90% of its landscape is used.
Brandon Stark’s story extends far beyond the world of Westeros.
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The original origins of some key characters names might give hints to their fates in Game of Thrones.
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It’s taken more than 30 years for Welsh education to be overhauled – but will these changes benefit pupils?
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Scotland is in the late stages of deciding whether to become the first country in UK to outlaw all corporal punishment against children.
Mainstream schools aren’t always suitable for children with autism.
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Parents of autistic children in Wales face a choice between English-medium specialist education or Welsh-medium mainstream education.
Oldham, Greater Manchester, is one of the UK’s most deprived places.
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The foundational economy has largely been overlooked in public policy but it could provide shelter from the Brexit storm for the UK’s deprived regions.