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Trust a journalist to make something out of nothing.

We have been briefed that environment minister Jane Davidson will this week launch a nice-tasting initiative from Arriva Trains Wales. The company is to start serving Fair Trade coffee on its services.

In order to provide a “photo-opportunity” - Ms D being handed a cup and [...]

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Hopes that Plaid’s northern regional member Janet Ryder will be shoe-horned into the vacant position of deputy leader of the nationalist group in the Assembly seem somewhat misplaced.

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Just who precisely is minister for rural housing ?

Last week, Elin Jones spoke in detail about the changes to rural planning through TAN (Technical Advisory Note) 6 which were on their way.

This week, deputy minister Jocelyn Davies waxed eloquent about her powers in housing, teasing predecessor Peter Black about why he made so little of [...]

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Jane Davidson gave her First-Minster impression today. And very realistic it seemed.

She gave a long and spirited exposition at the weekly Cabinet briefing for the press on everything she and her environment department were planning this week, explaining that she had a “very full” week ahead.

We were told about flooding, keeping Wales tidy, cycling, walking, [...]

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Expect all sorts of chaos next month if Jane Davidson follows her own nose over the Welsh coastal path which the Assembly government is so keen to fund and create.

The environment minister is due to issue a consultation paper, probably around the middle of next month, on what form the path should take.

Wales has a [...]

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Peter Black, one of the policy-wonks so often at the back of Liberal Democrat moves, is busily proving that the Welsh government has no clothes.

To blame is former education minister Jane Davidson, although by now we can shout our complaints at her successor, Jane Hutt.

Mr Black is about to propose that every local authority [...]

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