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AM JOINS GARTH OLWG STUDENTS FOR ‘LIFE SAVER’ TRAINING
- July 16, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
I was pleased to join headteacher Mr Edards and students for a training session provided by the British Heart Foundation, Cymru today. I was impressed by the enthusiastic way that the students at Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg approached their ‘life saver’ training. Being able to carry out CPR is an important life skill and BHF Cymru’s
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AM PROPOSES END TO NEW BUILD LEASEHOLD HOUSES IN WALES
- July 2, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
As part of his ongoing campaign for the Welsh and UK Governments to lefgislate to protect leaseholders from exploitative contracts and to ban the development of new leasehold houses, Mick Antoniw AM brought a Members legislative proposal to the National Assembly for Wales on 27th June 2018. The proposal read: To propose the National Assembly
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BAKING HOT & BARKING DOGS – AM’S ROUND WITH LOCAL POSTIE
- July 2, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
Mick Antoniw, Assembly Member for Pontypridd joined local postman Josh Collier on his Pontypridd round today to offer support for the Post Office and Communication Workers Union’s ‘Bite Back’ campaign. The number of dog attacks on postal workers attempting to deliver mail has increased by 22% in Wales over the past year, with a total
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AM OPPOSING NEW YSTRAD BARWIG PLANNING APPLICATION
- June 20, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
I will be opposing the new planning application for housing development on the Ysrad Barwig site. Watch my short video for more.
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AM WELCOMES METRO HUB AT TAFF’S WELL
- June 11, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
Mick Antoniw, Assembly Member for Pontypridd has welcomed the Welsh Government’s decision to site the £100 million state-of-the-art Metro depot facility in Taff’s Well on the old Forgemasters site. The site will service 36 of the new Metro vehicles that will operate services on the Taff Vale lines and eventually be the base for 400
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AM WELCOMES REDUCTION IN MAXIMUM FOBT STAKE
- May 17, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
Mick Antoniw, Assembly Member for Pontypridd and Chair of the Assembly’s Cross Party Group on Problem Gambling has welcomed the UK Government’s decision to reduce the maximum stake on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals to £2. The move follows intensive campaigning at Westminster and the Assembly for the introduction of a maximum stake to tackle the
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AM ON AIR QUALITY MEASUES: ‘PEOPLE’S HEALTH MUST COME FIRST’
- April 30, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
The £20m Air Quality Fund, which will run until 2021, will support local authorities to comply with nitrogen dioxide limits and improve air quality in their areas. The Environment Minister has also announced a consultation on plans for Clean Air Zones, designated areas where action is taken to reduce public and environmental exposure to airborne
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MINISTER WISHES TEAM WALES PARACHEER ‘POB LWC’
- April 17, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
Sports Minister Dafydd Elis Thomas was on hand to wish Team Wales Paracheer ‘Pob lwc’ ahead of the team flying out to the USA to defend their world championship title next week. The Pontypridd-based team won gold in the USA last year at their first attempt and were invited to the Assembly by local Assembly
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MINISTER VIEWS THE DIGITAL FUTURE AT TONYREFAIL’S E-CYCLE
- April 17, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
E-Cycle’s Paul Sinnott and Wayne Roberts welcomed the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and local Assembly Member Mick Antoniw to their Tonyrefail site on Monday to show-case the business’s cutting edge digital services. The Cabinet Secretary was visiting as part of the Valley Taskforce initiative, which is focused on increasing economic activity in valleys communities.
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AM & COMMUNITY COUNCILS’ SHARED VISION OF THE FUTURE
- April 4, 2018
- Posted by: Mick Antoniw AM
- Category: Featured, Latest News
The six Town and Community Councils in Taff Ely, together with Pontypridd Assembly Member Mick Antoniw have united to produce a joint report on the future of Town and Community Councils. Representatives from Llantrisant, Tonyrefail, Pontypridd, Taffs Well, Llantwit Fardre and Pontypridd Councils met recently to discuss and agree the joint report, which has