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Sunday, a caver was trapped in Ogof Gwynt Yr Eira, Wales. A rockfall pinned their helmet at the top of a pitch.
South & Mid Wales Cave Rescue reached them, kept them warm, and dug for over 10 hours to get them free.
SMWCRT run on donations alone. That funds their rescue vehicle, kit, and training.
If you can, please give:
https://smwcrt.org/donate.html
https://www.europesays.com/videos/80875/ Still birth rates in Wales remain higher than the rest of the UK | ITV Cymru Wales #AnthonyHopkins #bins #BreconBeacons #FESTIVAL #Flintshire #Greenman #hollywood #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #meningitis #Music #NorthWales #Rubbish #SouthWales #StillBirths #vaccine #WelshGovernment #wildfires
National Grid’s record year for vulnerability support
National Grid have supported 25,860 customers through fuel poverty during 2025 and 2026. This marks a record year…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #NationalGrid #CustomerSupport #Energybills #fuel-poverty #low-carbon #Midlands #severeweather #southwales #SouthWestEngland #StormGoretti
https://www.europesays.com/britain/107020/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/107020/ National Grid’s record year for vulnerability support #CustomerSupport #EnergyBills #FuelPoverty #LowCarbon #Midlands #NationalGrid #SevereWeather #SouthWales #SouthWestEngland #StormGoretti
https://www.europesays.com/videos/79732/ Family who drowned in the sea off Shoreham named by police – watch the ITV Evening News #AndyBurnham #BonnieTyle #BonnieTylerFuneral #DonaldTrump #Duane"KeffeD"Davis #gaza #GurkhaSoldiers #Iran #Israel #itv #ItvNews #JASONARDAY #JasonArdayVigil #KeffeD #Oman #palestine #PM #SouthWales #STOURBRIDGE #StourbridgeWildfire #StourbridgeWildfires #TonyBlair #Tupac #TupacMurder #TupacShakur #TupacTrial
https://www.europesays.com/videos/79567/ Family who drowned in the sea off Shoreham named by police – watch the ITV Evening News #AndyBurnham #BonnieTyle #BonnieTylerFuneral #DonaldTrump #Duane"KeffeD"Davis #gaza #GurkhaSoldiers #Iran #Israel #itv #ItvNews #JASONARDAY #JasonArdayVigil #KeffeD #Oman #palestine #PM #SouthWales #STOURBRIDGE #StourbridgeWildfire #StourbridgeWildfires #TonyBlair #Tupac #TupacMurder #TupacShakur #TupacTrial
https://www.europesays.com/videos/79110/ LIVE: Update after four people pulled from water off Sussex coast #AndyBurnham #BonnieTyle #BonnieTylerFuneral #DonaldTrump #Duane"KeffeD"Davis #gaza #GurkhaSoldiers #Iran #Israel #itv #ItvNews #JASONARDAY #JasonArdayVigil #KeffeD #Oman #palestine #PM #SouthWales #STOURBRIDGE #StourbridgeWildfire #StourbridgeWildfires #TonyBlair #Tupac #TupacMurder #TupacShakur #TupacTrial
https://www.europesays.com/videos/78683/ Trump threatens to bomb Middle East ally – ITV News at Ten LIVE #AndyBurnham #BonnieTyle #BonnieTylerFuneral #DonaldTrump #Duane"KeffeD"Davis #gaza #GurkhaSoldiers #Iran #Israel #itv #ItvNews #JASONARDAY #JasonArdayVigil #KeffeD #Oman #palestine #PM #SouthWales #STOURBRIDGE #StourbridgeWildfire #StourbridgeWildfires #TonyBlair #Tupac #TupacMurder #TupacShakur #TupacTrial
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ Keir Hardie ✧
Keir Hardie (15 August 1856 – 26 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and was the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party from 1906 to 1908. Hardie was born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire. He started working at the age of seven, and f...
#labourparty #hardie #westhamsouth #southwales #scottishtradeunionist #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Hardie
https://www.europesays.com/videos/77509/ Prime minister sends army to help fight wildfires in South Wales | ITV Cymru Wales #AndyBurnham #army #BonnieTyler #CardiffCity #farming #fires #football #funeral #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #PrimeMinister #SouthWales #SwanseaCity #WelshRugby #wildfire #Wrexham #WRU
https://www.europesays.com/videos/72162/ Reports of ‘deliberate’ fire setting as blaze continues on Rhondda mountain | ITV Cymru Wales #ADOPTION #Canals #eisteddfod #fires #FirstMinister #football #heat #holiday #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #Newport #RhunApIorwerth #SouthWales #volunteers #wildfire
https://www.europesays.com/videos/71558/ Grooming gang found guilty of plying teenage girls with drugs for sex | ITV Cymru Wales #CaernarfonCrownCourt #CommonwealthGames #courts #dry #Eisteddfodd #heat #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #Pembrokeshire #Porthcawl #Rhyl #SouthWales #wildfire
https://www.europesays.com/videos/61462/ Newly qualified midwives feel ‘left in limbo’ as over half cannot get a job | ITV Cymru Wales #Bardsey #Conwy #Dumplings #Fidget #GwentPolice #hospital #investigation #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #jobs #monkeys #news #nhs #Plantasia #politics #senedd #SouthWales #Squishy #toys #Wales #Welsh #wildfire
Record-breaking charity golf day raises £14,000 for Popham Kidney Support
The annual charity golf day in aid of Popham Kidney Support raised a record £14,000 at Clyne Golf Club on…
#Golf #News #Charity #Charityevent #community #communitynews #fundraising #fundraisingevent #golfday #healthcare #kidneyhealth #localcharities #localnews #nonprofit #pophamkidneysupport #SouthWales #Swansea #volunteers #wales
https://www.europesays.com/golf/35844/
Man shot by police in south Wales after being believed to carry crossbow
📰 Original title: Man believed to be carrying crossbow shot by police
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👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Marvelling at Sultan the Pit Pony in Penallta Park — Mick Petts’ late‑90s earth sculpture built from colliery spoil to honour Wales’ pit ponies. Still galloping across Ystrad Mynach and perfect for a summer wander. 🐴✨
#Wales #Cymru #YstradMynach #PenalltaPark #Valleys #PitPony #Sultan #SummerWalks #LandArt #SouthWales #ExploreWales #WelshHistory #CollieryHeritage #WalkingUK #VisitWales #OutdoorArt #EarthSculpture #ValleysLife
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1073427/ Southampton woman aiming to become Miss Universe Great Britain #Britain #England #GreatBritain #MissUniverse #MsNeo #Newport #NorthernIreland #PassionateAdvocate #Scotland #SouthWales #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales
Southampton woman aiming to become Miss Universe Great Britain
A Southampton woman is aiming to become the first British Indian winner of Miss Universe Great Britain. Aryana…
#UnitedKingdom #UK #Europe #EU #GreatBritain #Missuniverse #MsNeo #Newport #passionateadvocate #southwales
https://www.europesays.com/3113341/
https://www.europesays.com/3113341/ Southampton woman aiming to become Miss Universe Great Britain #GreatBritain #MissUniverse #MsNeo #Newport #PassionateAdvocate #SouthWales #UnitedKingdom
https://www.europesays.com/videos/54144/ ‘Inhumane and torture’: Man back in prison due to theft of phone 20 years ago | ITV Cymru Wales #AndreaBryne #CARDIFF #Conwy #EnergyCap #IPP #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #MabelWulff #news #PRISON #SolarPower #SouthWales #swansea #Wales #WalesVsFiji #WestWales
I spent four days in the ‘happiest place in Wales’ — it was better than Spain
When I clicked on a link promising to reveal “the happiest place to live in Wales” I was…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Anglesey #areaofoutstandingnaturalbeauty #happiestplace #independentshops #MenaiBridge #MenaiStrait #NorthWales #seasidetowns #southWales #Wales
https://www.europesays.com/spain/39935/
https://www.mountain-training.org/qualifications/walking/lowland-leader/
Very long shot, anyone in South Wales available this weekend to get to Brecon who'd like to train to be a walk leader with this Lowland Leader course? It's funded apart from the registration fee which is £69, otherwise the course would be £350.
It's two days training (no overnight stay).
Organised through Purple Shoots.
Please share!
Here's our poster!
If you have anywhere local you can put it up, or groups you can advertise it in, please do :otterheart: :meow_artist:
For those interested in Llantwit Major history, a book I'd not seen before has just turned up on the Internet Archive, about 5th century Llantwit Major. Nothing I'd not heard locally, but a useful summary and some photos from the late 19th century which may be of interest.
I’m coming back to #pontypridd - tickets here
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Storyville-Books/t-pllqpog
#wales #southwales #poetry #bookshops
Back around 2002 I went on a Scout camp to #southwales, we camped near/within #bannaubrecheiniog / #breconbeacons.
Certainly it was a short drive to a car park/lay-by and we climbed up a scree slope - kinda coming from the back (South) of Corn Du.
This is the only picture I have of the site. To the right and back of this building there was a flat area where we pitched tents, and beyond that a stream.
Behind the photographer was a small bank and a road.
If anyone has any ideas where this might be, I’d be grateful to know so I can revisit it.
I’ve searched for bothies in South Wales and come up with nothing…
Is it sci-fi? Is it drama? Is it madness?
Yes.
Alien House blends social realism with metaphysical weirdness—and just a touch of love.
Set in Barry, South Wales
📚 https://meganpublishingservices.com/book/alien-house-ebook/
#AlienHouse #BritishFiction #ImmigrationStory #Expats #MetaphysicalFiction #SouthWales #WeirdLit #booktokuk #booktokusa #booktokaustralia #booktokcanada #books
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐕🦦 While we see shapes and #colors, scent detection #dogs like Cariad and Neo read a world of invisible trails. A #conservation team uses their 300 million olfactory receptors to find and protect #otters in #SouthWales.
#animals #biology #ecology #ecosystem #england #mustelids #nature #rivers #science #wales #water #tksst #video
🐕🦦 While we see shapes and #colors, scent detection #dogs like Cariad and Neo read a world of invisible trails. A #conservation team uses their 300 million olfactory receptors to find and protect #otters in #SouthWales.
#animals #biology #ecology #ecosystem #england #mustelids #nature #rivers #science #wales #water #tksst #video
:ablobenjoysnow:
The rain is starting to turn to snow, and mum just sent me a pic someone shared of one of the local mountain roads (the Rhigos, for anyone local) where the snow is sticking to the road at the top. #Goretti #StormGoretti #SouthWales #Rhondda
Are there any towns, villages or groups doing an organised Mari Lwyd event in South Wales this year?
I have a friend who is desperate to go to one so I'm trying to help her find one that's not too far away.
Thanks.
Not sure how many people this is local to, but here, I'm running this in the new year :)
A cold but beautiful day, walking with my oldest friends to the top of Sugar Loaf mountain.
#sugarloafmountain #southwales #monmouthshire #bannaubrycheiniog #breconbeacons #nationalpark #walk #countryside #abergavenny #mountain
König Charles eröffnet Metro Depot in Südwales
#Eröffnung #Großbritannien #KönigCharles #Metro #MetroDepot #SouthWales #Straßenbahn #TransportforWales
https://bahnblogstelle.com/241970/koenig-charles-eroeffnet-metro-depot-in-suedwales/
Irresponsible dog ownership, irresponsible parenthood. You can't put a baby and an aggressive dog in a room together and just 'hope for the best', look at the terrible result 😔
https://news.sky.com/story/arrests-made-after-xl-bully-kills-nine-month-old-baby-13461170
Nuthatch feeding in the nest
Nuthatch feeding in the nest
Petroleum minister, New South Wales minister discuss energy cooperation
If you lost everything overnight—your partner, your money, your sanity—what would you do?
Michael ends up on the beach in Barry.
And that’s where Alien House begins.
📘 https://meganpublishingservices.com/book/alien-house-ebook/
#AlienHouse #BritishFiction #ImmigrationStory #Expats #MetaphysicalFiction #SouthWales #books #Aliens #fantasy #scifi
#UKGovernment expands #police use of #FacialRecognition vans
by Kate Whannel, August 13, 2025
"More live facial recognition (#LFR) vans will be rolled out across seven police forces in England to locate suspects for crimes including sexual offences, violent assaults and homicides, the Home Office has announced.
"The forces will get access to 10 new vans equipped with cameras, which scan the faces of people walking past and check them against a list of wanted people.
"The government says the technology has been used in London to make 580 arrests in 12 months, including 52 registered sex offenders who breached their conditions.
"However, campaign group #BigBrotherWatch said the 'significant expansion of the #SurveillanceState' was 'alarming'.
"Live facial recognition was first used in #England and #Wales in 2017 during the Uefa Champions League final football match in Cardiff.
"Since then its use has largely been confined to #SouthWales, #London and #Essex including at a Beyoncé concert to scan for paedophiles and terrorists [like elderly Palestine Action activists!]
"The government is now funding 10 vans equipped with LFR to be shared between seven forces, approximately doubling the number of vehicles.
"The seven forces are Greater #Manchester, #WestYorkshire, #Bedfordshire, #Surrey, #Sussex, #ThamesValley and #Hampshire.
"The technology identifies people by taking measurements of facial features including the distance between the eyes and the length of the jawline and then comparing the data to to an existing watchlist.
"Each van will be staffed with a trained officer who checks the matches identified by the technology.
"Simultaneously, the government is holding a consultation on what safeguards are needed to "ensure transparency and public confidence", ahead of drawing up a new legal framework.
"Big Brother Watch is bringing a legal challenge against the #MetPolice's use of the technology, alongside #ShaunThompson, who was wrongly identified by an LFR camera.
#Rebecca Vincent, interim director of Big Brother Watch, said: 'Police have interpreted the absence of any legislative basis authorising the use of this intrusive technology as carte blanche to continue to roll it out unfettered, despite the fact that a crucial judicial review on the matter is pending.
" ;The #HomeOffice must scrap its plans to roll out further live facial recognition capacity until robust legislative safeguards are established.'
"Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti told the BBC the technology was 'incredibly intrusive' and 'some would say this is yet another move towards a total #surveillance society'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/I2g32
#Orwellian #UKPol #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #ThoughtCrime #PalestineAction #Censorship #Authoritarianism
https://youtu.be/gkjWmZJdGrU?si=4NGGPU-JeEIp_5qE
More drone stuff, I failed to get to the source of the river Lliw. Made do with this instead.
#UpperLliwValley #Reservoir #windfarm #SouthWales
Listening to Australian Rugby League on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, don't know who the commentators are, but I think they could make snail races exciting. 📻🏉
#RugbyLeague #australia #queensland #southwales #bbc #bbcsport #bbcradio5sportsextra #SportsCommentators #commentators
More drone footage from the South Wales valleys today. And what a gorgeous day it was.
https://youtu.be/YGhyZmpOA-Q
#Drone #Valleys #SouthWales
📍: Bridge 152, Castle Bridge
ℹ️: track bridge
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.9147744393953/-3.31589961696198
📸: Photo by rodtuk on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/77796013@N00/52334479714
#canal #narrowboat #wales #uk #flickr #4star #brecon #breconockshire #campervan #location #motorhome #phototype #rating #roderict #roderickt #southwales #vehicle #wip #unitedkingdom #brecknockshire
Weekend trip to visit family at #Carmarthen, #SouthWales. Yesterday found these two lovely small #art galleries with some exceptional pieces (ceramics, mixed media, photography, painting) by members of a local collective that run the place together.
https://www.kingstreetgallery.co.uk/
https://origincarmarthen.com/
Nearby, a great bit of street art next to a mini pub, celebrating one of Wales most iconic bands, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
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Maen Ceti or Arthur's Stone on the Cefn Bryn ridge, Gŵyr/Gower for today's #StandingStoneSunday
A Neolithic chambered tomb with a broken capstone, it has a lovely setting looking across Afon Llwchwr towards Llanelli and the mountains of South Wales.
This visit March 2012.
The remaining stones of the chamber of Sweyne's Howes (North) chambered tomb on the slopes below Rhossili Down, Gŵyr/Gower for #StandingStoneSunday. There are two tombs here, as well as many Bronze Age cairns and a prehistoric settlement.
This visit March 2012.
#Gower #SouthWales #Neolithic
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ Castell Coch ✧
Castell Coch is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais in South Wales. The first castle on the site was built by the Normans after 1081 to protect the newly conquered town of Cardiff. The castle's earth motte was reused by Gilbert de Clare as the basis for a new stone fortification, built between 126...
#SouthWales #Tongwynlais #WorldWar #Crichton-Stuart #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell_Coch
