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South Wales Argus
05-07-2025
- Politics
- South Wales Argus
Call for Flying Start to be extended in Blaenau Gwent
Flying Start is a Welsh Government funded programme, which provides intensive support services to families with children up to the age of three who lives in disadvantaged areas across Wales. The first Flying Start areas in Blaenau Gwent were set up in 2006 and around a third of the county borough comes under its wing. The pre-school service was brought up at a meeting of the council's Children 's Young People and Families scrutiny committee on Tuesday, July 1, due to fears children who are not receiving Flying Start support, start attending schools with behavioural problems and lacking in social skills. Key figure in Wales' glory years leaves Dragons after just a year in the job Drivers face delays of twenty minutes after two car collision A look at Caerleon's 'Festival of Arts' happening today with 10 days of fun The county borough hit the headlines last Christmas when it was revealed that parents had received a letter from the director of education, Dr Luisa Munro-Morris saying that parents would be contacted and expected to come to school to change their child if they had soiled themselves. Cllr Haydn Trollope (Labour) said: 'I'm aware there's a two-tier system, children that have gone through Flying Start and those who haven't due to where they live. 'It's a post code lottery.' He hoped that the council could research the issue and take their data findings and lobby the Welsh Government to fund rolling out Flying Start right across Blaenau Gwent. Cllr Trollope said that he had been told by head teachers that children who had been supported by Flying Start are 'easily identified' compared to those who had not. Cllr Sonia Behr (Labour) backed his call and said the issue had been brought up as part of councillors visits to schools. Cllr Behr said: 'A teacher took me to one side and said that the biggest problem is that children are coming to school unable to articulate themselves, hardly able to speak and he wondered if it was something to do with early usage for screens. 'I don't think it would be an enormous piece of work to make a comparison.' School's inclusion manager Julie Sambrook said that there was lots of information available as work tracking the comparison between Flying Start and non-Flying Start children had been taking place on the issue of toilet training. Ms Sambrook said: 'Health visitors have now established toilet training workshops in response. 'The impact of that is our teachers are actually able to teach because they are not out of class changing nappies all day.' She added that the council was already in touch with the Welsh Government about increasing Flying Start provision in Blaenau Gwent 'It's ongoing work,' said Ms Sambrook. Cllr Trollope added that being toilet trained was just one element, and that his concerns included children's social interaction with each other as well as learning to: 'use a knife and fork to feed themselves.' 'We need Flying Start all over the borough,' he stressed. Head of children's services, Loredana Moruz added that Flying Start also has an 'outreach programme' which can look at children who have been referred to it in areas not covered. The committee agreed that the research needs to be done.
Rhyl Journal
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Rhyl Journal
Rivals star David Tennant says leading actor Bafta nomination was a ‘real shock'
The 54-year-old actor plays Lord Tony Baddingham in the Disney+ drama, which is adapted from a novel by Dame Jilly Cooper, and depicts the ruthless world of independent television in 1986. Speaking about his nomination at a nominees party at London's Victoria And Albert Museum, former Doctor Who star Tennant said: 'It was a real shock, I was not expecting it and I'm very thrilled to be here. 'I'm going to make the most (of it), I'm coming to the party, I'm doing the works this year.' The actor, who will appear as an interviewee on ITV's The Assembly on Sunday, which sees celebrities interviewed by a group of autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people, said his wife had predicted Rivals' success. He added: 'My wife was always very sure (of the show), she knew the book of old, and when she saw that it was being dramatised, and indeed when a script pinged through on an email, she went, 'oh, this is going to be the biggest show of the year'. 'I've never read a Jilly Cooper book, I knew, sort of that they'd been big in the 80s, I knew that they were well known for certain things, I thought that (right?). 'But she was absolutely right, I mean, it just took off. 'It was brilliantly adapted, I think Dominic Treadwell-Collins (the show's writer and producer) and his team, and all the writers they really got the tone of it, because it's from the 80s, so it's a period as well, so it's a bit like doing a Dickens or a Trollope or something. 'It's got all the texture of looking into the past, as well as all these extraordinary characters and all the twists and turns of it. 'So Georgia (Tennant's wife) was right, very pleased to say.' Rivals has six nominations across the Bafta TV awards, along with a nod in the memorable moment category, for the moment Rupert Campbell Black (Alex Hassell) and Sarah Stratton (Emily Atack) are caught playing naked tennis. Netflix's dark comedy series Baby Reindeer is the most nominated show at the 2025 awards, with eight nominations, while Rivals and ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office are the second most nominated series with six each. The Bafta Television Craft Awards, hosted by Stacey Dooley, will take place on Sunday April 27, with the Bafta Television Awards, hosted by Alan Cumming, taking place on May 11, and broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Spectator
23-04-2025
- Business
- Spectator
Northern Europe doesn't get salads: Claro reviewed
Claro is at 12 Waterloo Place, St James's, and, when I tried to find out what it used to be – it has the energy of a bank – I found an advert from the Crown Estate offering the lease for a 'retail or wellness opportunity'. 12 Waterloo Place was pictured in pen and ink, with a woman holding a yoga mat idling past, and a woman in cycling shorts hanging back. I wonder why the Crown Estate is pushing wellness, which I think is being rich, bored and female while not dying. (I have never heard a woman with a good book talk about wellness.) The price is upon application. I looked further: 12 Waterloo Place is 20th-century Baroque pastiche, it was a bank, and it wants to be a wellness opportunity. It should talk to the ducks in St James's Park. They live inside a wellness opportunity. Instead Claro is an Israeli-owned restaurant specialising in eastern Mediterranean food, and too understated to ruffle the maniacs who walk past at weekends, shouting in praise of murderous dictatorship – because this is a decadent age where former banks push wellness opportunities and former leftists push Hamas. It is a vast banking hall decorated in the style beloved by the current rich, a form of gilded nothingness out of some-thing. Anti-culture. There is ancient brickwork, old marble floors which I suspect the designer would have gladly axed, and a glorious faux-Tudor plaster ceiling. This, though, is mixed with tables and chairs too small for the room (it should look like the Café de Paris and it needs showgirls and Trollope heroes) and meaningless, monied lighting designed for wellness opportunities.
