Bronterre News

Comment and analysis by journalist Patrick O'Brien in tribute to Chartist leader, radical agitator and campaigning journalist James Bronterre O'Brien (1804-1864). BELOW: Ynyslas, Ceredigion, unscathed (see under Environment for pieces on highly controversial plan to excavate this spectacular unspoilt beach and erect an uglifying cast-metal effigy of a tree). Oil painting, 2019, by Nicki Orton

CEREDIGION council has dreamt up what it thinks is a very good idea. It has formed a Let’s-Do-Everything-to-Foul-Up-Aberystwyth Committee. Already, this new task-force have had a brainwave. They’ve worked out how they can likely deal a terminal blow to a good few of the town’s shops, cafés and restaurants, while at the same time enraging …

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THE revelation – reported in detail in the Cambrian News – that approaching a third of children in Ceredigion, Gwynedd and Powys live in poverty is highly disturbing.   The trouble is that, for anyone without direct, personal sight of children who are hungry, cold or badly clothed, this will be a scandal hidden from …

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WALES is deeply in love with mobile-phone technology.   That at least must be the assumption when you hear the wailing of mid and north Wales MPs over what they would have you believe is the scandal of leaving places without ultra-powerful wireless phone links.     Such connection is  proclaimed as the indispensable social …

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