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Even the formidable health minister Edwina Hart admitted she was surprised by some of the secretive ways of working that her civil servants operate.

Mrs Hart had launched a massive consultation operation over the future of the NHS, suggesting that she would abolish the local health boards and make various other changes.

Over 800 submissions quickly submerged [...]

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We all know the Western Mail (otherwise Llais y Sais) is losing readers, and that their reporters sometimes can’t find stories (after all, it is still the “silly season“).

But today’s effort on the future leadership of the Welsh Labour Party in the wake of Rhodri Morgan is peculiarly off-centre.

So peculiarly off-centre that it’s worth examining, [...]

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Wales is in grave danger of being considered a nation of narrow-minded hypocrites in the wake of the Rev Rhodri Glyn Thomas being forced to resign as culture minister after mistakenly walking into a Bay public house with a cigar in his hand .

Apparently, the resignation followed a tete-a-tete on his future with party leader [...]

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Ann Jones, normally a fairly amelioratory character, is spitting blood over health issues in the North. Words such as “ridiculous” are ejected with venom against a decision by her own party’s health minister Edwina Hart.

Unfortunately, the disagreements by Mrs Jones, AM for Vale of Clwyd, combine with the weak devolution beliefs of some Labour AMs [...]

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