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Aberystwyth
Coordinates: 52°24′50″N 4°04′52″W / 52.414°N 4.081°W / 52.414; -4.081
Aberystwyth (English: Mouth of the River Ystwyth, English pronunciation: /ˌæbəˈrɪstwɪθ/, Welsh: [abɛrˈəstʊɨθ]) is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. Often colloquially known as Aber, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol.
Since the late 19th century, Aberystwyth has also been a major Welsh educational centre, with the establishment of a university college there in 1872. The town's population was officially 15,935 in the 29 April 2001 census or 16,928 if local-government wards are tallied. During nine months of the year, there is an influx of students—to a total number of 8841 at July 2009, but there is no reliable measure of the number of those students whose family residence is outside Aberystwyth.
The town is situated near the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol, on the west coast of Wales. Although the name may seem to suggest otherwise, only the River Rheidol passes through the town; following the reconstruction of the harbour, the River Ystwyth skirts the town.

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Adamsdown
Coordinates: 51°29′07″N 3°09′33″W / 51.48531°N 3.15929°W / 51.48531; -3.15929
Adamsdown (Welsh: Waunadda) is an inner city area and community in the south of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.
In mediaeval times, Adamsdown lay just outside the east walls of Cardiff and was owned by the lords of Glamorgan. The area may be named after an Adam Kygnot, a porter at Cardiff Castle around 1330 AD.
According to an 1824 map, Adamsdown was largely a 270-acre (1.1 km²) farm. A replacement for a prison which was located on St Mary Street opened in the area in 1832, and a cemetery in 1848. In the following year, an outbreak of cholera affected the area. As the cemetery became full, it was converted into a park. In 1883 the "South Wales and Mounmouthsire Infirmary" was opened at a cost of £23,000. Many were refused from the hospital, such as those with infectious diseases and women in the advanced stages of pregnancy. In 1923, the hospital became the Cardiff Royal Infirmary.
The Newtown area of Adamsdown was the first area to be developed, where many Irish immmigrants settled. Streets built in the period had their names drawm from astronomy (such as Star, Constellation, Planet and Eclipse Streets) or precious metals and stones (suc as Gold, Copper, Topaz and Diamond Streets). Cardiff's first municipal secondary school was established at Howard Gardens in 1884, which became a Grammar School in 1941 and was subsequently destroyed by bombing in World War II, where a UWIC campus now stands.

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Butetown
Coordinates: 51°28′01″N 3°09′58″W / 51.467°N 3.166°W / 51.467; -3.166
Butetown (or The Docks, Welsh: Tre-Biwt) is a community in the south of the city of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It was originally a model housing estate built in the early nineteenth century by John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, for whose title the area was named. Commonly known as "Tiger Bay", this area became one of the UK's first multicultural communities with people from over 50 countries settled here by the outbreak of World War I, working in the docks and allied industries. Some of the largest communities included the Somalis, Yemenis and Greeks, whose influence still lives on today. A Greek Orthodox church still stands at the top of Bute Street.
In the 1960s, most of the original housing was demolished including the historic Loudoun Square, the original heart of Butetown. In its place was a typical 1960s housing estate of low-rise courts and alleys, and two high rise apartment blocks.
In the 1980s, the new Atlantic Wharf development was built on the reclaimed West Bute Dock, and has involved the construction of some 1300 new houses. Together with the developments in the Inner Habour and Roath Basin, it was hoped this would spur redevelopment and employment in Butetown, but it seems not to have. The divide between the wealthy Cardiff Bay, and the poor Tiger Bay seems as wide as ever, although some of the surviving areas of historic Butetown are becoming prime office and retail locations. With the new Century Wharf development to the west on the banks of the Taff, the housing estate is becoming a little 'boxed in', increasing feelings of exclusion. Over the next few decades, the 1960s housing will require renewal and it is hoped that new development will be more suitable of the urban context of the area and will provide a better mix of private and public housing to help fully integrate the community with the rest of the city.

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Caernarfon
Coordinates: 53°08′N 4°16′W / 53.14°N 4.27°W / 53.14; -4.27
Caernarfon (/kərˈnɑrvən/; Welsh: [kaɨrˈnarvɔn]) is a Royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,611. It lies along the A487 road, on the east banks of the Menai Straits, opposite the Isle of Anglesey. The city of Bangor is 8.6 miles (13.8 km) to the northeast, while Snowdonia fringes Caernarfon to the east and southeast. Caernarvon and Carnarvon are archaic anglicised spellings of Caernarfon, but used rarely.
Abundant natural resources in and around the Menai Straits enabled human habitation in the Caernarfon area during pre-history. The Ordovices were the Celtic tribe documented as living in this region during classical antiquity. The Roman fort called Segontium was established in about the year 80 to subjugate the Ordovices as part of the Roman conquest of Britain. The Romans were victorious and occupied the region until their departure in the 5th century, after which Caernarfon became part of the Kingdom of Gwynedd. In the 11th century, William I, King of England ordered the construction of a motte-and-bailey at Caernarfon, so as to fulfill the Norman invasion of Wales.

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Caerphilly
Coordinates: 51°34′41″N 3°13′05″W / 51.578°N 3.218°W / 51.578; -3.218
Caerphilly (/kərˈfɪli/; Welsh: Caerffili, Welsh pronunciation: [ˌkɑːɨrˈfɪlɪ]) is a town in the county borough of Caerphilly, south Wales, located at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley, with a population of approximately 31,000. It is a commuter town of Cardiff and Newport, which are located some 7.5 miles (12 km) and 12 miles (19 km) away, respectively. It is separated from the Cardiff suburbs of Lisvane and Rhiwbina by Caerphilly mountain. It is traditionally within the county of Glamorgan, on the border with Monmouthshire and it is the largest town in the county borough of Caerphilly, which since 2003 has formed part of the lieutenancy area of Gwent. The town gives its name to Caerphilly cheese, which originated in the area.
Caerphilly is the site of Caerphilly Castle, built between 1268 and 1271, which is the largest castle in Wales, and second largest in Britain (after Windsor). The castle has been used for TV and movie film making including BBC productions of Doctor Who and Merlin. In 1899 the Rhymney Railway built their Caerphilly railway works maintenance facilities; however, the expansion of the population in the nineteenth century was more to do with the increasing market for coal. Caerphilly hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1950.

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Capel Celyn
Capel Celyn was a rural community to the north west of Bala in Gwynedd, north Wales, in the Afon Tryweryn valley. The village and other parts of the valley were flooded to create a reservoir, Llyn Celyn, in order to supply Liverpool and The Wirral with water for industry. The village contained, among other things, a chapel, as the name of the community suggests, capel being Welsh for chapel.
In 1956, a private bill sponsored by Liverpool City Council was brought before Parliament to develop a water reservoir from the Tryweryn Valley. The development would include the flooding of Capel Celyn. By obtaining authority via an Act of Parliament, Liverpool City Council would not require planning consent from the relevant Welsh local authorities. This, together with the fact that the village was one of the last Welsh-only speaking communities, ensured that the proposals became deeply controversial. Thirty five out of thirty six Welsh Members of Parliament (MPs) opposed the bill (the other did not vote), but in 1957 it was passed. The members of the community waged an eight-year effort, ultimately unsuccessful, to prevent the destruction of their homes.

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Cardiff
Cardiff (ⁱ/ˈkɑrdɪf/; Welsh: Caerdydd (info) Welsh pronunciation: [kairˈdiːð, kaˑɨrˈdɨːð]) is the capital and largest city in Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales. The unitary authority area's mid 2010 population was estimated to be 341,054, while the population of the Larger Urban Zone was estimated at 861,400 in 2009. Cardiff is a significant tourism centre and the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 18.3 million visitors in 2010. In 2011, Cardiff was ranked 6th in the world in National Geographic's alternative tourist destinations.
The city of Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan (and later South Glamorgan). Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. The Cardiff Urban Area covers a slightly larger area outside of the county boundary, and includes the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a major port for the transport of coal following the arrival of industry in the region contributed to its rise as a major city.

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Cathays Park
Cathays Park or Cardiff Civic Centre (Welsh: Parc Cathays) is a civic centre area in the city centre of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, consisting of a number of early 20th century buildings and a central park area, Alexandra Gardens. It includes Edwardian buildings such as the Temple of Peace, City Hall, the National Museum and Gallery of Wales and several buildings belonging to the Cardiff University campus. It also includes Cardiff Crown Court, the administrative headquarters of the Welsh Government, and the more modern Cardiff Central Police Station. The Pevsner architectural guide to the historic county of Glamorgan judges Cathays Park to be "the finest civic centre in the British Isles". The area falls within the Cathays electoral ward.
The present day character of the area owes much to successive holders of the title the Marquess of Bute, and especially the 3rd Marquess of Bute, an extremely successful and wealthy businessman. They acquired much of the lands in Cathays through investment and by inheritance through a marriage to Charlotte Windsor in 1766. In 1898, the local council bought 59 acres (240,000 m²) of land from the 3rd Marquess of Bute in order to erect a new town hall. As part of the sale, the 3rd Marquis of Bute placed strict conditions on how the land was to be developed. The area was to be used for civic, cultural and educational purposes, and the avenues were to be preserved.

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Cyncoed
Coordinates: 51°31′08″N 3°09′47″W / 51.519°N 3.163°W / 51.519; -3.163
Cyncoed is a community in the north of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales. Located in the north east of the city, Cyncoed is one of the most affluent suburbs of Cardiff, and of Wales in general. It has some of the highest property prices in Wales. It also surrounds a small village called Lakeside, in which lies one of Cardiff's richest streets and one of the most popular schools.
The area was mainly built in the early twentieth century when Cardiff was expanding rapidly. Housing is a mixture of some very large detached homes and smaller semi-detached buildings. Modern housing estates now surround the area, and some of the original houses have been demolished and replaced by smaller homes.
Features include a small shopping village, a number of churches, a synagogue, because there is a sizable Jewish community living in Cyncoed, and primary schools and secondary schools. It is home to one of the campuses of Cardiff Metropolitan University and a Cardiff University hall of residence.

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European Parliament
The European Parliament (abbreviated as Europarl or the EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world. The Parliament is currently composed of 754 Members of the European Parliament, who represent the second largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world (375 million eligible voters in 2009).
It has been directly elected every five years by universal suffrage since 1979. However, turnout at European Parliament elections has fallen consecutively at each election since that date, and has been under 50% since 1999. Turnout in 2009 stood at 43% of all European voters, ranging from 90% in Luxembourg and Belgium (where compulsory voting is used) to 20% in Slovakia. Turnout was under 50% in 18 out of 27 member states.

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Gabalfa
Coordinates: 51°30′00″N 3°11′38″W / 51.500°N 3.194°W / 51.500; -3.194
Coordinates: 51°30′00″N 3°11′38″W / 51.500°N 3.194°W / 51.500; -3.194
Gabalfa (English pronunciation: /ɡəˈbælvə/, Welsh pronunciation: [ɡaˈbalva]) is a district in the north of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is characterised by an enormous fly over road at the Gabalfa Interchange, where the A48 road meets the A470 road (North Road) which leads from Cardiff to northern Wales, and the A469 road (Caerphilly Road). The area is also the site of the All Nations Centre.
The name is derived from the Welsh 'Ceubalfa', which is literally translated as 'place of the boat'. It was formerly the site of a ferry crossing across the River Taff, upon which a school is now built.
The electoral ward of Gabalfa lies within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff North. Gabalfa is currently served by two Liberal Democrats councillors - Ed Bridges (since 2004) and Gareth Holden (since 2012).
In the Welsh Assembly, Cardiff North is represented by Welsh Labour AM Julie Morgan. She took the seat from the Conservatives in the 2011 elections, overturning a majority of 4,843 and creating a Labour majority of 1,782 votes.

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Gwynedd
Gwynedd (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡwɨ̞nɛð]) is an area in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. As a local government area it is the second biggest in terms of geographical area and also one of the most sparsely populated. A large proportion of the population is Welsh-speaking. The name Gwynedd is also used for a preserved county, covering the two local government areas of Gwynedd and the Isle of Anglesey. Culturally and historically, the name can also be used for most of North Wales (for instance, the area covered by the Gwynedd Constabulary), corresponding to the approximate territory of the Kingdom of Gwynedd at its greatest extent.
Gwynedd is the home of Bangor University and includes the scenic Llŷn Peninsula, and most of the Snowdonia National Park.
Gwynedd was an independent kingdom from the end of the Roman period until the 13th Century when it was conquered and subjugated by England. The modern Gwynedd was one of eight Welsh counties originally created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, based on the principal territory of the former realm. It covered the entirety of the old counties of Anglesey, and Caernarfonshire along with all of Merionethshire apart from Edeirnion Rural District (which went to Clwyd), and also a few parishes in Denbighshire: Llanrwst, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Eglwysbach, Llanddoged, Llanrwst and Tir Ifan.

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House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster.
The House of Lords is independent from, and complements the work of, the House of Commons – they share responsibility for making laws and checking government action. Bills can be introduced into either the House of Lords or the House of Commons and members of the Lords may also take on roles as Government Ministers.
Unlike the House of Commons, most new members of the House of Lords are appointed. Membership of the House of Lords is made up of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal. There are currently 26 Lords Spiritual, who sit in the Lords by virtue of their ecclesiastical role in the established Church of England. The Lords Temporal make up the rest of the membership; of these, the majority are life peers who are appointed by the Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister, or on the advice of the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
Membership was once a right of birth to hereditary peers but, following a series of reforms, only 92 members (as of 1 July 2011 (2011 -07-01)^[update]) sitting by virtue of a hereditary peerage remain. The number of members is not fixed; as of 1 April 2012 (2012 -04-01)^[update] the House of Lords has 786 members (plus 21 who are on leave of absence or otherwise disqualified from sitting), as against the fixed 650-seat membership of the House of Commons.

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Lisvane
Coordinates: 51°33′N 3°10′W / 51.55°N 3.16°W / 51.55; -3.16
Lisvane (Welsh: Llysfaen) is an affluent community in the north of Cardiff, the capital of Wales, located 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the city centre. Lisvane is one of the most desirable areas of both Cardiff and Wales, and as of 2011, has an average house price £410,000 with many properties worth in excess of £1 million. Lisvane has 3,319 residents, and comprises approximately 1,700 dwellings, a local village shop, a primary school, a community cabin library, a park, a nursery, a parish church, a public house, a war memorial, a Scout hall and community or village hall.
The Welsh language name Llysfaen, or Llys Faen means ‘Stone Court’ (llys – court and faen/maen – stone). There have been several alternative spellings in the English language over the centuries such as: Lysvayen, Lucyvene, Llisuine, Lyssefayn, Lysfayn, Lucyvine, Lucyvenye, Lucyveny, Leysvayen, Les Ffayne, Lliffeni. The village probably settled on the present name from around 1630.

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Liverpool
Liverpool ( /ˈlɪvəpuːl/) is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Liverpool was 445,200 and was part of a larger urban area of 816,216.
Historically a part of Lancashire, the urbanisation and expansion of Liverpool were both largely brought about by the city's status as a major port. By the 18th century, trade from the West Indies, Ireland and mainland Europe coupled with close links with the Atlantic Slave Trade furthered the economic expansion of Liverpool. By the early 19th century, 40% of the world's trade passed through Liverpool's docks, contributing to Liverpool's rise as a major city.
Inhabitants of Liverpool are referred to as Liverpudlians but are also colloquially known as "Scousers", in reference to the local dish known as "scouse", a form of stew. The word "Scouse" has also become synonymous with the Liverpool accent and dialect. Liverpool's status as a port city has contributed to its diverse population, which, historically, were drawn from a wide range of peoples, cultures, and religions, particularly those from Ireland. The city is also home to the oldest Black African community in the country and the oldest Chinese community in Europe.

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Llandaff
Llandaff (Welsh: Llandaf llan church + Taf) is a district in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales, having been incorporated into the city in 1922. It is the seat of the Church in Wales Bishop of Llandaff, whose diocese covers the most populous area of South Wales. Much of the district is covered by parkland known as Llandaff Fields.
Most of the history of Llandaff centres on its role as a religious site. Before the creation of Llandaff Cathedral it became established as a Christian place of worship in the 6th century AD, probably because of its location as the first firm ground north of the point where the river Taff met the Bristol Channel, and because of its pre-Christian location as a river crossing on an east west trade route. Evidence of Roman-British ritual burials have been found under the present cathedral. The date of the moving of the cathedral to Llandaff is disputed, but elements of the fabric date from the 12th century, such as the impressive Romanesque Urban Arch, named after the 12th century Bishop, Urban. It has had a history of continual destruction and restoration, as a result of warfare, neglect, and natural disaster. Llandaff has been a focal point of devastating attacks by Owain Glyndŵr and Oliver Cromwell. It was the second most damaged Cathedral in the UK (after Coventry Cathedral) following Luftwaffe bombing during World War II, and subsequently restored by the architect George Pace. One of its main modern points of interest is the aluminium figure of Christ in Majesty (1954-5), by Jacob Epstein, which is suspended above the nave. In 2007 a lightning strike to its spire sent a surge through the building which destroyed its organ. Its replacement, the largest to be built in the UK for over 40 years, was inaugurated in 2010.

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Llandaff North
Coordinates: 51°30′07″N 3°13′34″W / 51.502°N 3.226°W / 51.502; -3.226
Llandaff North (Welsh: Ystum Taf), is a community in the north of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. It is located in the north of Cardiff and can be considered a two part ward, each containing about half the population; a northern section of mainly middle class housing, and a southern section (commonly known as Gabalfa, although this is a separate ward to the south east) of mainly public sector housing stock.^{[clarification needed]} It is located directly north of Llandaff but is an electoral ward which falls within the wider parliamentary constituency of Cardiff North. This constituency is known as a key marginal and is one of a handful within the United Kingdom which is decisive in a British General Election. Being mainly middle-class and "swing voters" the residents of Llandaff North are of some interest to national politicians.
Llandaff North is quite a small and quiet residential area which is served by a number of village shops. The southern boundary of Llandaff North is formed by the River Taff which also separates Llandaff North from Llandaff. These two areas are linked by a road bridge which spans this river, where Llandaff Rowing Club is located, and which also provides a view of Llandaff Cathedral. The Welsh name, Ystum Taf, means "bend in the River Taff".

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Llanishen
Coordinates: 51°31′44″N 3°11′20″W / 51.529°N 3.189°W / 51.529; -3.189
Llanishen (Welsh Llanisien llan church + Isien Saint Isan) is a district in the north of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. Llanishen is well known as the home of the 'Tax Offices', the tallest buildings in north Cardiff and a landmark for miles around. The office complex overlooks the 'Crystal and Fishguard estates', Parc Ty Glas industrial estate, old village, leafy suburban roads and various parkland that constitute the district. Llanishen is also home to a fully featured Leisure Centre and the 60-acre (240,000 m²) Llanishen Reservoir - a local beauty spot that is connected to a green corridor which bisects the city from the rising hills in the north to Cardiff Bay in the south.
Originally wooded farm land, in A.D. 535 two monks came eastwards from the small religious settlement of Llandaff, aiming to establish new settlements, or "llans", in the land below Caerphilly mountain. With fresh water from the Nant Fawr stream, one of the monks Isan founded his llan on the site of the modern day Oval Park.

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Llanrumney
Llanrumney (Welsh Llanrhymni) is a district and suburb in the east of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.
The land where modern Llanrumney stands was left to Keynsham Abbey by the Lord of Glamorgan after the Norman Conquest. According to legend, Llywelyn the Last, the final prince of an independent Wales, was interred in a stone coffin by the monks in 1282, on land where Llanrumney Hall would be built centuries later.
After Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century, the land passed to the Kemeys family. It remained in their possession until 1951, when it and its grounds were compulsorily purchased by the local authority in order to build the large estates that can be seen there today.
The name Llanrumney comes from the Welsh word Llan, meaning "Church" or "Parish", and Rumney the Anglicised version of Rhymney (the local river with the same name). Making the literal translation "The Church by the Rhymney River".
The district is a predominantly composed of large scale council estates and is bounded by the wards of Pontprennau & Old St. Mellons to the north, Rumney to the south, Penylan to the southwest, and Pentwyn to the west. The electoral ward of Llanrumney falls within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff South and Penarth.

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Merionethshire
Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd) is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, a vice county and a former administrative county.
The spelling of the Welsh name in standard modern orthography is Meirionnydd (for the geographical area) or Sir Feirionnydd (for the county), with a double <nn>, but the variant with a single <n> is sometimes found in older works.
Merionethshire is a maritime county, bounded to the north by Caernarfonshire, to the east by Denbighshire, to the south by Montgomeryshire and Cardiganshire, and to the west by Cardigan Bay. With a total area of 1,731 km², it is one of the more sparsely populated counties in Great Britain.
The Merioneth area remains one of the strongest Welsh-speaking parts of Wales. The coastline consists alternately of cliffs and stretches of sand and the area generally is the most mountainous in Wales; a large part of the Snowdonia National Park lies within it. The greatest heights are Aran Fawddwy 905 m (2,970 ft) and Cadair Idris 893 m (2,929 ft). The chief rivers are the Dwyryd, the Mawddach and the Dyfi. Waterfalls and small lakes are numerous, the largest being Bala Lake (4 miles long and 1-mile (1.6 km) broad).

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Pentyrch
Coordinates: 51°31′44″N 3°17′50″W / 51.52883°N 3.29735°W / 51.52883; -3.29735
Pentyrch is a suburban community located on the western outskirts of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. The village gives its name to a Cardiff local authority electoral ward, which covers the village and surrounding area.
The village is situated next to the Garth Mountain, high above the River Taff.
The village can be reached from junction 32 of the M4 Motorway, then A470, then via Heol Goch, a hill flanked by a quarry and nature reserve. Alternatively, Church Road provides access from Llantrisant Road near St Fagans.
Other approaches are from Creigiau and Gwaelod-y-Garth.
As of the 2001 Census, Pentyrch contained 3,535 individuals, in 1,358 households.
The electoral ward of Pentyrch falls within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff West. It is bounded by Rhondda Cynon Taf to the north; and by the wards of Whitchurch & Tongwynlais to the east; Radyr & Morganstown to the southeast; and Creigiau & St. Fagans to the southwest. Pentyrch is represented by Conservative councillor Craig Williams on Cardiff Council but it is represented by the Labour Party in the Houses of Commons and the National Assembly.

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Penyberth
Coordinates: 52°48′32″N 4°27′31″W / 52.809°N 4.4585°W / 52.809; -4.4585
Penyberth was a farmhouse at Penrhos, on the Llŷn Peninsula near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, which had been the home to generations of patrons of poets, but destroyed in 1936 in order to build a training camp and aerodrome for the RAF.
Welsh nationalism was ignited in 1936 when the UK government settled on establishing the RAF Penrhos bombing school at Penyberth on the Llŷn peninsula in Gwynedd. The events surrounding the protest, known as Tân yn Llŷn (Fire in Llŷn), helped define Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru. The UK government settled on Llŷn as the site for its new bombing school after similar locations Northumberland and Dorset were met with protests.
However, UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin refused to hear the case against the bombing school in Wales, despite a deputation representing half a million Welsh protesters. Protest against the bombing school was summed up by Saunders Lewis when he wrote that the UK government was intent upon turning one of the 'essential homes of Welsh culture, idiom, and literature' into a place for promoting a barbaric method of warfare. Construction of the bombing school building began exactly 400 years after the first Act of Union annexing Wales into England.

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Penylan
Coordinates: 51°30′00″N 3°09′40″W / 51.500°N 3.161°W / 51.500; -3.161
Penylan is a district in the east of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, known for its Victorian era period houses and spacious tree lined roads and avenues.
Situated to both the north and south of the A48 dual carriageway, it is one of the most affluent districts of Cardiff,^{[citation needed]} although subdivision of the large Victorian period properties is starting to occur in the areas at the south end of the ward, mimicking the trend in neighbouring Plasnewydd.
Penylan (English: High Church) has a number of large parks, including the southern part of Roath Park, and is one of the greenest areas in Cardiff. It is also known for its very strong sense of community,^{[citation needed]} largely due to the parks, road layouts, churches, and local post offices and newsagents. It is served by Penylan Library.
Penylan Synagogue was opened in 1955, and closed in 2003 when a new synagogue had been built in nearby Cyncoed Gardens. Despite this, Penylan retains the largest Jewish population of Cardiff,^{[citation needed]} which although well down on its heyday, numbers about 350 (just over 35% of the population) out of approximately 1000 in the entire city.^{[citation needed]}

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Plasnewydd
Coordinates: 51°29′28″N 3°10′01″W / 51.491°N 3.167°W / 51.491; -3.167
Plasnewydd (English: New Manor) is an electoral ward of Cardiff, Wales. It falls within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff Central. It is bounded by the wards of Cyncoed to the north; Penylan to the northeast; Adamsdown to the southwest; and Cathays to the west. It mainly covers the district of Roath.

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Radyr
Coordinates: 51°31′N 3°16′W / 51.51°N 3.26°W / 51.51; -3.26
Radyr (Welsh: Radur) is an outer suburb of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The suburb is situated in the west of the city, although it was originally a separate village, and is located around 5 miles (8 kilometres) north west of Cardiff city centre. According to 2009 estimates, the suburb has a population of 6,000. Radyr is administratively linked to the adjacent community of Morganstown, but they are now physically divided by the M4 motorway. To the north of Radyr & Morganstown are the villages of Tongwynlais and Gwaelod-y-Garth, to the east is the suburb Whitchurch, to the south the suburb of Danescourt and to the west is countryside.
Evidence of stone age occupation of the Lesser Garth Cave (located near Morganstown) was discovered in 1912 and included worked flints. In 1916 excavation of a mound of 30 metres (98 ft) in Radyr Woods revealed charcoal and iron age pottery. Radyr developed after the Norman invasion of Wales at the start of the 12th century and formed part of the Welsh Lordship or cantref of Miskin under the Lordship of Glamorgan created by the Norman King, William Rufus, in 1093.

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Rhiwbina
Coordinates: 51°31′16″N 3°12′50″W / 51.5211°N 3.2140°W / 51.5211; -3.2140
Rhiwbina (Welsh: Rhiwbeina or Rhiwbeuno – Rhiw slope + Beuno Saint Beuno) is a prosperous northern suburb of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It used to be a separate village: its core is still locally called "the village" and is given a Welsh village appearance by Beulah United Reformed Church (originally Capel Beulah) at the village crossroads.
Capel Beulah/Beulah URC was a daughter chapel of Groeswen, Caerphilly. While services have been held in English since around 1900, Beulah named its redeveloped Assembly Rooms "Canolfan Beulah" in honour of its foundation as a Welsh language congregation.
Rhiwbina is bordered by the suburbs of Whitchurch (Yr Eglwys Newydd) to the west, Llanishen to the east, and Birchgrove (Llwynbedw) to the south. To the north is the steep, wooded Wenallt Hill (Y Wenallt ), part of Cardiff's unofficial "green belt", where Coed-y-Wenallt provides public open space. The area is served by Rhiwbina railway station on the Coryton Line.

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Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: The Scots Pairliament) is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. The Parliament, informally referred to as "Holyrood", is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Members are elected for four-year terms under the mixed member proportional representation system. As a result, 73 MSPs represent individual geographical constituencies elected by the plurality ("first past the post") system, with a further 56 returned from eight additional member regions, each electing seven MSPs. The most recent general election to the Parliament was held on 5 May 2011.
The original Parliament of Scotland (or "Estates of Scotland") was the national legislature of the independent Kingdom of Scotland, and existed from the early 13th century until the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. As a consequence, the Parliament of Scotland merged with the Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, which sat at Westminster in London.

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South Wales
South Wales (Welsh: De Cymru) is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of Cardiff (population approximately 324,800), as well as Swansea and Newport. The Brecon Beacons national park covers about a third of South Wales, containing Pen y Fan, the highest mountain south of Snowdonia.
The extent of South Wales is loosely defined, but it is generally considered to be the area surrounding the M4 motorway, including the historic counties of Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire and sometimes extending westwards to include south Carmarthenshire and south Pembrokeshire. In the western extent, from Swansea westwards, local people would probably recognise that they lived in both South Wales and in West Wales — there is considerable overlap in these somewhat artificial boundaries. The northern border is particularly ill-defined, but the A40 may be a good approximation whilst others consider the more southerly Heads of the Valleys Road as the boundary.

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Splott
Splott (Welsh: Y Sblot) is a district in the south of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales, just east of the city centre. It was built up in the late 19th century on the land of two farms of the same name: Upper Splott and Lower Splott Farms. Splott is characterised by its once vast steelworks and rows of tightly knit terraced houses. The suburb of Splott falls into the Splott electoral ward.
The name is from Old English splott "speck, blot, patch (of land)," which is also the source of place names in the Vale of Glamorgan, Gower, and Pembrokeshire. Fanciful suggestions for the origin of the name have included a truncation of "God's Plot", as the land belonged to the Bishop of Llandaff in medieval times, and a derivation of plat, meaning a grassy area of land.
The population of Splott in the United Kingdom Census 2001 was 12,074, in 5,101 households of which only 183 are detached homes. Of the 8,221 adults in the area, only 1,000 have the lowest category of qualifications (Level 1 or below).

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Swansea
Swansea ( /ˈswɒnzi/ SWONZ-ee; Welsh: Abertawe [abɛrˈtauɛ], "mouth of the Tawe") is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands. Swansea had a population of 169,880 in 2001 and is the second most populous city in Wales after Cardiff and the third most populous county in Wales after Cardiff and Rhondda Cynon Taf. During its 19th century industrial heyday, Swansea was one of the key centres of the world copper industry, earning the nickname 'Copperopolis'.
Archaeological finds are mostly confined to the Gower Peninsula, and include items from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. The Romans reached the area, as did the Vikings.
Swansea is thought to have originally developed as a Viking trading post. Some think that its name is derived from Sveinn's island (Old Norse: Sveinsey) – the reference to an island may refer to a bank at the mouth of the river Tawe, or perhaps an area of raised ground in marshes. An alternative explanation is that the name derives from the Norse name 'Sweyn' and 'ey', which can mean inlet. The name is pronounced Swans-y /ˈswɒnzi/), not Swan-sea. The Welsh name first appears in Welsh poems at the beginning of the 13th century, as "Aber Tawy".

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Tŷ Hywel
Tŷ Hywel is named after Hywel Dda (Hywel the Good) and is used by the National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff, Wales. Previously it was known as Crickhowell House (Welsh: Tŷ Crughywel) and was named after Lord Crickhowell. It is also informally known as the Assembly Office and houses Assembly Members of the National Assembly for Wales and their staff, and staff of the Assembly Commission. The Welsh Government also operates from the building and occupies one floor. It is leased by the National Assembly for Wales under the Government of Wales Act 1998.
It was opened in 1993 and has a total floor area of 11,583 m (38,002 ft). It is a red-brick building and is connected to the Senedd debating chamber in Cardiff Bay, Wales. The building has previously been used as temporary debating chamber for the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 until the Senedd was opened in 2006.
On 25 June 2008, the Prince of Wales officially opened Siambr Hywel, the National Assembly's youth debating chamber and education centre. It is based in the former debating chamber in Tŷ Hywel, which was used until the Senedd was built.

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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.

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Wales
Wales ⁱ/ˈweɪlz/ (Welsh: Cymru;Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkəm.rɨ] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain,bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km² (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,200 km (750 mi) of coastline, including its offshore islands; the largest, Anglesey (Ynys Môn), is also the largest island in the Irish Sea. Wales is largely mountainous, with its highest peaks in the north and central areas, especially in Snowdonia (Eryri), which contains Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit.
During the Iron Age and early medieval period, Wales was inhabited by the Celtic Britons. A distinct Welsh national identity emerged in the centuries after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales is regarded as one of the modern Celtic nations today. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn was recognised as King of Wales in 1057. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's death in 1282 marked the completion of Edward I of England's conquest of Wales. The castles and town walls erected to ensure its permanence are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Owain Glyndŵr briefly restored independence to what was to become modern Wales, in the early 15th century. Wales was subsequently annexed by England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542 since when, excluding those matters now devolved to Wales, English law has been the legal system of Wales and England. Distinctive Welsh politics developed in the 19th century. Welsh Liberalism, exemplified in the early 20th century by Lloyd George, was displaced by the growth of socialism and the Labour Party. Welsh national feeling grew over the century; Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and The Welsh Language Society in 1962. The National Assembly for Wales, created in 1999 following a referendum, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters.

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Adam Price
Adam Price (born 23 September 1968, Carmarthen) is a politician in Wales, and former Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. He was elected to Parliament in the 2001 general election and re-elected in 2005 but stood down at the 2010 election. He belongs to Plaid's left-wing and has said of himself "I was a socialist before I was a nationalist."
The son of a coal miner, Price went to Ysgol Dyffryn Aman on Margaret Street in Ammanford in Carmarthenshire. He studied at Cardiff University gaining a BA in European Community Studies in 1991. From 1991-3, he was a research associate at the Cardiff University's department of City and Regional Planning. From 1993-8, he worked for Menter a Busnes, being an executive director from 1996-8. He also studied at Saarland University in Saarbrücken in Germany. From 1998, he was the Managing Director of the Newidiem-Economic Development Consultancy (part of Menter a Business). Price is openly gay.
He stood in 1992 general election for the seat of Gower.

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Albert Owen
Albert Owen (born 10 August 1959) is a Welsh Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn. He took the seat in the 2001 election from Plaid Cymru with a margin of exactly eight hundred votes and retained the seat with an increased majority of approximately twelve hundred votes in the 2005 election. In the 2010 election he further increased his majority to 2,461. He is a member of the Parliamentary Welsh Affairs Select Committee, and vice-chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Flag Group
Like most of Holyhead, his hometown, including the Labour MEP Glenys Kinnock, he attended the Holyhead County Comprehensive School. He left when he was sixteen for a career in the Merchant Navy, and was a seaman until 1992. In 1995, he became an advisor in the Citizens Advice Bureau, specialising in welfare rights, and from 1997 to 2001 he managed the J. E. O'Toole Centre in Holyhead - a centre dedicated to the welfare, education and leisure of unemployed workers in Holyhead. In 1999, he unsuccessfully stood for the Labour party in the Welsh Assembly elections. From the University of York he gained a BA in Politics in 1997.

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Alun Ffred Jones
Alun Ffred Jones (born 29 October 1949) is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru. Jones was the National Assembly for Wales Member for Caernarfon 2003–07 and for the newly created Arfon constituency since the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007.
Jones was born in Brynaman and is the brother of former Plaid Cymru President Dafydd Iwan. He was educated in the University of Wales, Bangor. Before his election, he was a Television director and producer for Ffilmiau'r Nant and, before that, was a Welsh teacher and Head of Department and a journalist with HTV. Jones speaks Welsh, English and French. He enjoys theatre, sports and gardening.^{[citation needed]}
Jones is the former Leader of Gwynedd County Council, is Chair of Antur Nantlle and chair of Nantlle Vale Football Club. His main political interests are in broadcasting, community development and the economy. On 22 July 2008 he was appointed Minister for Heritage in the Welsh Labour/Plaid Cymru coalition Welsh Assembly Government.

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Alun Michael
Alun Edward Michael (born 22 August 1943) is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff South and Penarth since 1987. He was formerly First Minister of Wales and leader of the Welsh Labour Party from 1999 to 2000.
Michael was born at Bryngwran Anglesey, son of Leslie and Betty Michael. He attended Colwyn Bay Grammar School and Keele University.
He was a youth and community worker from 1971 to 1987; having previously been a Reporter on the South Wales Echo, he became a JP in 1972 and chaired the Cardiff Juvenile Bench before entering Parliament. He was a Cardiff City councillor from 1973 to 1989.
He became an MP at the 1987 general election, inheriting a safe Labour seat from former Prime Minister James Callaghan. Michael retained this seat in 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2010.

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Ambrose Bebb
William Ambrose Bebb (4 July 1894 – 27 April 1955) was a Welsh author and politician.
Ambrose Bebb was the son of diarist Edward Hughes Bebb, and the father of noted Welsh rugby international Dewi Bebb. The family came from Cardiganshire.
A co-founder of Plaid Cymru, Bebb took a keen interest in politics and was inclined towards fascism, influenced by Charles Maurras of the Action Française movement. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Bebb became a vocal proponent of the War Effort against Nazi Germany, and considered Germany's total defeat "essential".
Ambrose Bebb was the grandfather of Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberconwy, Guto Bebb.

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Bethan Jenkins
Bethan Jenkins AM (born 9 December 1981), is a Welsh politician, born in Aberdare, Wales, who has represented the South Wales West Region for Plaid Cymru as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales since 2007. Since 2012 she has been Plaid's spokesperson for Heritage, Welsh language and Sport.
Bethan Jenkins grew up in the Welsh town of Merthyr Tydfil where her parents were involved in the Anti-Apartheid Movement of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Her brother is the Channel 4 News reporter Ciaran Jenkins.
She is a former pupil of Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, near Pontypridd. Her father is the poet Mike Jenkins, a previous winner of the John Tripp award. As well as being politically active, she enjoys music. Bethan was in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales for three years, and the Welsh language folk/pop band Gilespi. She has also been an outspoken Republican and along side her Plaid Cymru colleague, Leanne Wood, are members of the group Republic, along with Welsh Labour AM John Griffiths . Bethan also enjoys sport, and was a lifeguard for many years. She now lives in Rhos, Pontardawe.

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Chris Franks
Christopher Paul Franks (born 2 August 1951) is a Welsh engineer and politician. A member of Plaid Cymru, he has led the party's group on the Vale of Glamorgan council. Between 2007 and 2011 he was a member of the National Assembly for Wales losing in 2011.
Franks was born in Cardiff, and educated at Llandaff College. He qualified as a civil engineer, and worked in the Highways and Transport Department of a local authority.
He was elected to Vale of Glamorgan council from Dinas Powys ward, and also to Dinas Powys Community Council. Franks was the Plaid Cymru candidate for Vale of Glamorgan in the 2001 general election, and shortly after the election was chosen as Plaid Cymru group leader on Vale of Glamorgan. He also fought the Vale of Glamorgan in the 1999 and 2003 elections to the National Assembly for Wales. In 2002, Franks challenged Owen John Thomas for the top place on the Plaid Cymru list in South Wales Central, but was unsuccessful.
After the 2004 elections to Vale of Glamorgan Council, the Plaid Cymru group found itself with the 'balance of power' and Franks held meetings with both the Conservative and Labour leaders. Eventually the Conservatives formed a minority administration. This administration lasted until November 2006 when a crisis over social services cuts led to a vote of no confidence in the Conservative Leader being passed. Franks declared that an all-party coalition was preferable. A coalition between Labour, Plaid Cymru and Independent councillors was agreed that December under which Franks became Cabinet member for Legal and Public Protection. He is no longer the Cabinet member for Legal and Public Protection, this by succeeded by Ms Val Hartrey.Franks was neutral in his support for the coalition having abstained in the vote of no confidence. Before this he propped up the Tory administration.

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Cynog Dafis
Cynog Glyndwr Dafis (born 1 February 1938) is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru. Born Cynog Glyndwr Davies at Treboeth in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales, he was initially a school teacher and researcher before entering politics
Dafis was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, gaining a BA (Hons) degree in English, and subsequently an M.Ed. degree.^{[citation needed]} During his teaching career he worked in a number of secondary schools at Pontardawe, Newcastle Emlyn, Aberaeron and Llandysul.
Dafis was a Member of Parliament for Ceredigion from 1992 until 2000, having been supported by a coalition of local Plaid Cymru and Green party activists. In 2000 he resigned as an MP to devote more time as a member of the National Assembly for Wales, to which he had been elected in 1999.
In a speech at the 2000 National Eisteddfod at Llanelli, Dafis called for a new Welsh language movement with greater powers to lobby for the Welsh language at the Assembly, UK, and EU levels. Dafis felt the needs of the language were ignored during the first year of the Assembly, and that in order to ensure a dynamic growth of the Welsh language a properly resourced strategy was needed In his speech Dafis encouraged other Welsh language advocacy groups to work closer together creating a more favorable climate in which using Welsh was "attractive, exciting, a source of pride and a sign of strength". Additionally, Dafis pointed towards efforts in areas such as Catalonia and the Basque country as successful examples to emulate.

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Dafydd Iwan
Dafydd Iwan (born 24 August 1943), is a Welsh folk singer and politician. He was the president of Plaid Cymru (2003-2010).
Dafydd Iwan Jones was born in Brynaman in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and is the elder brother of politician Alun Ffred Jones. He spent most of his youth in Bala in Gwynedd before attending the University of Wales, Cardiff where he studied architecture. He rose to fame as a singer-songwriter, writing and playing folk music in the Welsh language.
Dafydd Iwan's earliest material was Welsh translations of tunes by American folk / protest singers: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan. Soon enough, Dafydd Iwan commanded the initiative to write his first ballads. The most prominent of these were political. His most famous satirical song, "Carlo" ("Charlie"), was written on the occasion of the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969.
It should be noted, however, that Dafydd Iwan was equally at home writing love ballads and variations on traditional Welsh folk tunes.
By the late 1960s he was receiving television coverage both for his music and for his political activities, including being imprisoned in 1970 as part of the fight for Welsh language rights, an event commemorated in his song Pam fod eira'n wyn? ("Why is snow white?")

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Dafydd Wigley
Dafydd Wigley, Baron Wigley (formerly David Wigley; born 1 April 1943) is a Welsh politician. He served as Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Caernarfon from 1974 until 2001 and as an Assembly Member for Caernarfon from 1999 until 2003. He was leader of the Plaid Cymru party from 1991 to 2000. On 19 November 2010 it was announced that he had been granted a peerage by the Queen, and took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Wigley, of Caernarfon on 24 January 2011.
Wigley was born in Derby, England, but attended Caernarfon grammar school and Rydal independent school before going on to the Victoria University of Manchester and training as an accountant. He was employed by Hoover as a financial controller before entering parliament.
He married the international harpist Elinor Bennett. The couple had four children, but twin sons died of a genetic illness. His sons' condition influenced the direction of his career, and he took a strong interest in the affairs of disabled people, being vice-chairman of the Parliamentary all-party disablement group, vice-president of Disability Wales, vice-president of Mencap (Wales), former president of the Spastics' Society of Wales and sponsor of the Disabled Persons Act in 1981.

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David James Davies
Dr. D.J. (David James) Davies (2 June 1893 - 11 October 1956), was a Welsh economist,industrialist, prize winning essayist,author, political activist, pilot, and an internationalist. Davies was a world traveller before returning home to Wales.
Initially a founding member of the Welsh Labour Party in the Ammanford district, in 1925 he left Labour becoming a founding member of Plaid Cymru, the nationalist party of Wales.
According to historian Professor John Davies, it was D.J. Davies' ideas which were more influential in shaping long-term Plaid Cymru ideology following the Second World War, and Davies was as "equally [a] significant figure" as Saunders Lewis in Welsh nationalism history, but it was Lewis' "brilliance and charismatic appeal" which was firmly associated with Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru of the 1930s.
D.J. Davies was born the third child of Thomas Davies, a miner, and Ellen Davies (née Williams) in Carmel, Carmarthenshire, Wales, on 2 June 1893. After attending local schools, Davies began working at age 14 in several collieries and at Barry Dock. Though working long hours, Davies continued his education by taking evening classes and through correspondence courses.

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David John Williams
D. J. Williams (David John Williams) (26 June 1885 – 4 January 1970) was one of the foremost Welsh-language writers of the twentieth century and a prominent Welsh nationalist.
Williams was born in Rhydcymerau, Carmarthenshire. He studied English at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Jesus College, Oxford. For most of his life he taught English at the grammar school in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.
A socialist, he was one of the founders of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh National Party, in 1925. He took part, with Saunders Lewis and Lewis Valentine, in the symbolic burning of a bombing school at Penyberth in north-west Wales in 1936. As a result he spent nine months in Wormwood Scrubs prison.
Williams was a short story writer of renown and also the author of two volumes of autobiography. All his work is inspired by his vision of his native locality, of a close-knit community where common values give worth to all.
He died in 1970 at Rhydcymerau, Carmarthenshire.

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Derek Vaughan
Derek Vaughan (* May 2, 1961 in Neath) was elected as Labour Party Member of the European Parliament for Wales in the 2009 European Parliament election.
Vaughan was born in Aberfan and studied politics and history at Swansea University. He has served as a full time trades union official, and is a member of the TGWU section of Unite. He was also leader of the Welsh Local Government Association from 2005 to 2008 and deputy leader from 2008 to 2009.
He was elected to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council in 1995. He became leader of the Labour group, and leader of the council, in 2004.

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Elfyn Llwyd
Elfyn Llwyd, PC (born 26 September 1951) is a Welsh barrister and politician. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1992, representing Meirionnydd Nant Conwy in the House of Commons from 1992 to 2010 and Dwyfor Meirionnydd since 2010. Llwyd is Plaid Cymru's Westminster parliamentary group leader.
Born in Betws-y-Coed, Gwynedd, Wales, Llwyd was raised in Llanrwst and later went to University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Chester Law College.
Llwyd worked as a solicitor and subsequently a barrister (called to the bar in 1997) before election to public office. Between 1990 and 1991 he served as President of the Gwynedd Law Society. A fluent Welsh and English speaker, Llwyd is married to Welsh folk singer Eleri Llwyd and they have two children. His hobbies include pigeon breeding, reading, travelling and rugby.
Llwyd was first elected to the United Kingdom Parliament at the 1992, winning the Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituency, being re-elected in 1997, 2001, and 2005. He took the newly configured Dwyfor Meirionnydd seat at the 2010 British general election with 44.3% of the vote, but there was a 7.3% swing from Plaid Cymru to the Conservatives.

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Elin Jones
Elin Jones AM (born 1 September 1966), is a Welsh politician, born in Lampeter, who has represented Ceredigion for Plaid Cymru as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales since 1999.
She attended Llanwnnen Primary School and Lampeter Comprehensive. She graduated from University of Wales, Cardiff with a BSc in Economics and took a post-graduate MSc in Agricultural Economics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Previously she was employed as an Economic Development officer for the Development Board for Rural Wales. She is a former Shadow Environment, Planning and Countryside Minister.
Jones speaks Welsh and English. She is also a former director of Radio Ceredigion and of Wes Glei Cyf, a television production company. She lives in Aberystwyth and enjoys music, film, reading and formerly sang with the Welsh singing group Cwlwm. She is also a member of a mixed choir, Côr ABC Aberystwyth.
Elin Jones served on Aberystwyth Town Council from 1992 - 1999 and was the youngest-ever Mayor of Aberystwyth from 1997 to 1998. She was the National Chair of Plaid Cymru between 2000 and 2002.

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Eurig Wyn
Eurig Wyn (born 1944) is a Welsh politician. He was a Plaid Cymru Member of the European Parliament for Wales from 1999 to 2004, when he lost his seat in part due to a reduction of the number of seats that Wales had.
He had previously been a journalist for the BBC. During 2005, Eurig Wyn was selected as Plaid Cymru's parliamentary candidate for the Ynys Môn constituency. Prior to his selection, Eurig Wyn had spent about a year building up a profile in Ynys Môn with a view to eventually taking the seat back from the Labour Party (UK), following Plaid Cymru's loss in 2001. The seat was the party's key target seat in the 2005 General Election; however, Plaid had their proportion of the vote reduced and the Labour Party held on to it, all main parties saw their vote fall due to independent candidate, Peter Rogers, who came 3rd and took a large share of the vote.

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Gwenllian Lansdown
Gwenllian Lansdown-Davies (born 1979, St Asaph) is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician, a former County Councillor for Riverside, and Chief Executive of Plaid Cymru between 2007 and 2011.
Lansdown-Davies was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford between 1997 and 2001 (where she was an exhibitioner and obtained a BA Hons in Modern Languages) and at Cardiff University (MSc Econ and PhD in Political Theory). She worked as a tutor in Politics during research for her PhD.
Vice-President of Union whilst at College and Chair of Plaid Cymru Student Federation in 2003, Lansdown's political interests include community development, international relations and the environment.
Lansdown was a County Borough Councillor, serving the Riverside Electoral Division on Cardiff County Council and was elected on 10 June 2004. The Riverside electoral division has an electorate of 9,513 (1 December 2005) and has 3 seats. She stood as number 3 on the Plaid Cymru regional list for South Wales Central at the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007.

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Gwynfor Evans
Dr Richard Gwynfor Evans (1 September 1912 – 21 April 2005), was a Welsh politician, lawyer and author. He was President of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru for thirty six years and was the first Member of Parliament to represent it at Westminster, which he did twice, from 1966 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1979.
Gwynfor Evans was born in Barry, near Cardiff, to Dan Evans and Catherine Richard. He had a brother named Alcwyn, and a sister named Ceridwen. His father ran a chain of shops in the Barry, and his mother a china shop. His mother was a fluent Welsh speaker. As a boy, he was educated at Gladstone Road School. Later on he was educated at Barry County School, where he was captain of the school's cricket and hockey teams. At the school he began learning the Welsh language, but did not become fully fluent until the age of seventeen. He was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and St John's College, Oxford, from where he qualified as a lawyer. During his time at St John's, he became a member of the Dafydd ap Gwilym society there. He was also a market gardener. He was a teenager when the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru was founded in 1925, and he founded a branch of the party while he was at Oxford. He became the party's president in 1945 and retained the office until 1981.

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Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician and Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the February 1974 general election resulted in a hung parliament. He is the most recent British Prime Minister to have served non-consecutive terms.

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Helen Mary Jones
Helen Mary Jones (born 29 June 1960, Colchester, Essex) is a Plaid Cymru politician, who was a member of the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2011.
Educated at Colchester County High School for Girls, Llanfair Caereinion High School in Powys and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has taught in the special education field and has held various positions in youth, community and social work.
She is a member of Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales. Her political interests include environmental issues, social justice, equal opportunities, children's rights and employment.
She unsuccessfully contested the 1992 general election in Islwyn against the then leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, and the 1997 general election in Montgomeryshire. In 1999 she was elected to the new National Assembly for Wales for the constituency of Llanelli. Prior to being elected as AM for Llanelli she was Senior Development Manager with the Equal Opportunities Commission in Wales.
She was Shadow Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning, and a member of the Education and Lifelong Learning Committee, the Equality of Opportunity Committee, the South West Wales Regional Committee and also a member of the Voluntary Sector Partnership during the first term of the National Assembly.

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Hywel Williams
Hywel Williams (born 14 May 1953, Pwllheli) is a Welsh politician and Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Arfon. He previously represented Caernarfon.
He was educated at Ysgol Glan y Môr, Pwllheli and the University of Wales, Cardiff.
He had previously worked as a Lecturer and a Social Worker for Gwynedd and Mid Glamorgan County Councils.
He contested the Clwyd South seat for the Welsh Assembly and polled 25% of the vote, almost 5 times as many votes as secured by Plaid Cymru in the 1997 general election. In the 2001 election he successfully contested the Caernarfon constituency and elected to Parliament with 44% of the vote and a majority of 12%, and successfully defended the seat in the 2005 General Election.
His parliamentary responsibilities within Plaid Cymru are work and pensions, disabilities and health.
He is recently re-married and has three daughters from a previous marriage.
On 1 September 2007 Williams visited the Kurdish Cultural Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, where he spoke of the importance of the maintenance of the Kurdish language.

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Ieuan Wyn Jones
Ieuan Wyn Jones, AM (born 22 May 1949) is a Welsh politician, who was the Deputy First Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government from 2007 until 2011. He is the current Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Ynys Môn constituency and is the former leader of Plaid Cymru. On 3 May 2011 Jones announced he would be stepping down from his post as party leader, expected during the first half of the Assembly term 2011 to 2016. He was Member of the UK parliament for Ynys Môn constituency from 1987 to 2001. In 2007, Jones was named Wales' "Politician of the Year" by the BBC Wales am.pm programme.
Ieuan Wyn Jones was born in Denbigh, Wales, and is a Welsh speaker. He has lived in both north and south Wales. Jones's early education was at Pontardawe Grammar School and at Ysgol y Berwyn in Bala, Gwynedd. Jones's brother Rhisiart said "The time we spent living in Garnswllt (between Ammanford, in Carmarthenshire, and Pontarddulais, in Swansea) was a very happy time for us as a family," adding "Many people think that Ieuan is just a 'gog' but parts of south Wales are very close to his heart."

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Janet Ryder
Janet Ryder (born in Sunderland, 21 June 1955) is a Welsh politician. She was a Plaid Cymru member of the National Assembly for Wales for North Wales from 1999 to 2011. She moved with her family to Wales in 1990 and has since learnt Welsh.
Former teacher and Youth Worker. Janet has been very much involved with voluntary and community work in her home town of Ruthin.
During 2010 she became a member of the Executive Board of the Wales Rugby League and has been one of its patrons since 2006.
She was formerly the Chair of Canolfan Awelon Management Committee and was also a former director on the board of Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council.
Former Mayor of Ruthin. Denbighshire County Council 1995-99. Plaid Cymru National Executive. Formerly Shadow Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning.
During the First Assembly (1999–2003), she was the Shadow Minister for Local Government and Communities and in 2002 she was given additional responsibility for Finance. She was re-elected in May 2003 to serve in the Second Assembly (2003–2007) and was one of twelve members of the Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales group. Following a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle in November 2003 she became the Shadow Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning. In April 2006, in line with changes made by the Assembly Government this portfolio changed to Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills. Her portfolio included responsibilities for schools, further education and skills development, higher education, the youth service and the careers service.

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Jenny Rathbone
Jenny Rathbone AM is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician, who has represented the constituency of Cardiff Central since the National Assembly for Wales election of 2011. She was Labour candidate for Cardiff Central at the 2010 General Election coming second to Liberal Democrat Jenny Willott.

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Jenny Willott
Jennifer Nancy Willott (b. 29 May 1974, Wimbledon, London) is a British politician and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central since the 2005 general election and a junior whip since February 2012. She is the first woman and the first Liberal Democrat to represent her seat.
Willott has a history of work with charitable organisations such as OXFAM and a women's organisation in North India. She supports the movement of trade justice and has interests in human rights. She was a councillor in the London Borough of Merton from 1998 to 2000.
Willott was educated at Uppingham School and then studied Classics at St Mary's College, Durham University. She then attended the London School of Economics obtaining an MSc in Development Studies.
For a while after university she was chief researcher for Lembit Opik.
Willott's 2005 campaign was closely linked to specific local and national issues and her support was widespread across all wards.
In her maiden speech, Willott pledged to "make Cardiff proud" and celebrated the cultural diversity of her constituency. She declared her priorities in parliament would be local health services, tuition and top-up fees, and council tax. She supported Sir Menzies Campbell in the leadership election in 2006, and was later appointed Shadow Minister for Youth Affairs, Whip, and Deputy Chief Whip. In 2008 she was appointed as Shadow Minister for Justice and later Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. In January 2009 she was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In December 2010 she resigned her post as parliamentary aide to Chris Huhne shortly before a vote to increase tuition fees as recommended by the Browne Review, in order to keep her pledge to constituents that she would vote against any increase in fees.

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Jill Evans
Jillian Evans (born 8 May 1959) is Plaid Cymru Member of the European Parliament for Wales and First Vice President of The Greens–European Free Alliance group - the fourth largest in the European Parliament. She is also President of Plaid Cymru and chair of CND Cymru.
In June 1999, she and fellow candidate Eurig Wyn were elected as the first MEPs in Plaid Cymru's history. She was re-elected to the European Parliament in 2009. She is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Delegation for relations with Iraq. She deputises on the Agriculture Committee. She is also Plaid Cymru spokesperson for European and International issues.
Evans was born in Ystrad Rhondda, Glamorgan. She was educated at Bodringallt Infants' and Junior schools, Ystrad, where her head-teacher was John Haydn Davies, conductor of Treorci Male Voice Choir. Evans later attended Tonypandy Grammar School, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where she gained a BA, and the Polytechnic of Wales, Trefforest (now Glamorgan University) where she earned an M.Phil. She speaks both Welsh and English, having learned the former as a second language in Tonypandy GS being taught by Penri Jones, now a Gwynedd county councillor.

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Jocelyn Davies
Jocelyn Davies (b. 18 June 1959, Usk, Monmouthshire) is a Plaid Cymru politician and a member of the National Assembly of Wales, list member for South Wales East since 1999. She was Deputy Minister for Housing and Regeneration. in the Labour/Plaid coalition government from 2007 - 2011.
After attending Newbridge Grammar School, she read Law at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. One of the first lay-inspectors of schools in 1993. Davies is married to Newbridge councilor Mike Davies. In 2004, she discovered tissue samples from their daughter, stillborn 16 years previously, were still being held in a Newport hospital.
Jocelyn has three children. (The oldest, Lewis, has two children Rhiannon and Dylan.)
Davies was a councilor on Islwyn Borough Council 1987-91 and contested the Islwyn by-election, 1995.
She has been a member of the National Assembly of Wales, list member for South Wales East, since 1999 and has served as Plaid Cymru Party Business Manager since 2000.
In the Second Assembly she was Chair on both the Committee on the Inquiry into the E.coli outbreak in Wales; and the South Wales East Regional Committee.

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John Bufton
John Bufton (born 31 August 1962 in Llanidloes), is a UKIP Member of the European Parliament for Wales.
He was educated at Elan Village Primary School and Llandrindod Wells High School, and joined the family haulage business before embarking on a career managing a residential care home for the elderly with the local authority.
John Bufton's political career began when he was elected onto Rhayader Town Council in 1987. In 1996, he was elected to Powys County Council. In the 1997 General Election, he ran for the Referendum Party in the Montgomeryshire constituency.
In 2000, he ran as UKIP candidate in the Ceredigion by-election, coming fifth with 1.9% of the vote. He also ran for UKIP in the 2005 General Election, 2007 Welsh Assembly Elections and 2008 Powys County Council election.
In 2009, Bufton became UKIP's first MEP for Wales, picking up the fourth available seat from Labour, and pushing the Liberal Democrats into 5th place. Bufton was appointed to serve on the Committee on Regional Development, at the European Parliament.

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John Edward Daniel
John Edward Daniel (26 June 1902 – 11 February 1962) was a Welsh theologian and college lecturer who became chairman of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru.
Daniel was born in Bangor, Gwynedd on 26 June 1902 and was educated at the Friars School, Bangor. He then won a scholarship to Oxford University, matriculating as a member of Jesus College, Oxford in 1919. He obtained a first-class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1923 and a further first-class degree in Divinity in 1925. He was then appointed to a fellowship at the Bala-Bangor theological college, and became a professor on 28 July 1926 following the death of Dr Thomas Rees. He taught Christian doctrine and the philosophy of religion and was regarded as one of the most able theologians of his generation. However, his publications were few: Dysgeidiaeth yr Apostol Paul (1933) and some journal articles. Although he was never ordained, he was an able preacher.
He was a prominent Welsh nationalist and member of Plaid Cymru. He contributed to its newspaper (Y Ddraig Goch) and stood unsuccessfully as a candidate in three general elections and a by-election in 1945. He was vice-chairman from 1931 to 1935, and succeeded Saunders Lewis as chairman in 1939 (holding the position until August 1943). In 1946, Daniel was appointed as an inspector of schools, with special responsibility for classics and religious education. He died as the result of a road accident near Halkyn, Flintshire on 11 February 1962.

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Julie Morgan
Julie Morgan AM (born 2 November 1944) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff North from 1997 until 2010; she is married to former First Minister of Wales, Rhodri Morgan. Julie Morgan won the Cardiff North seat in the Welsh Assembly in the 2011 elections.
Julie Edwards was born in Cardiff in 1944. She was educated at Dinas Powys Primary School and Howell's School Llandaff. She then attended King's College London where she graduated with a BA in English in 1965. Just as her first term at university was about to begin, a general election was called, and she returned to Cardiff to campaign for Jim Callaghan in the seat which was then Cardiff, South East.^{[citation needed]}
Despite Callaghan's protestations that she should go back to university, she campaigned for his victory alongside Neil Kinnock, the future Glenys Kinnock and Rhodri Morgan, whom she would marry in 1967. Following her undergraduate degree, Morgan studied at the University of Manchester. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Social Administration from University College, Cardiff.^{[citation needed]}

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Kay Swinburne
Jacqueline Kay Swinburne (born 8 June 1967) is a Welsh politician. She is a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Wales.
Born and raised in west Wales, Swinburne was educated at Llandysul Grammar School and went on to earn a degree in Biochemistry and Microbiology from King's College London, followed by a Ph.D. in medical research and an MBA from the University of Surrey, before starting a successful career in international healthcare and finance. Swinburne first came to national attention in 1999 when she resigned from Deutsche Bank after being a victim of sexual discrimination.
Swinburne is a former Conservative Councillor in Hereford, serving as Chair Health Scrutiny, former Town Mayor for Ledbury, former Deputy Chair NHCA. On 28 March 2008 it was announced that she was to head the Welsh Conservatives' list of candidates for the 2009 European Parliament election, effectively guaranteeing her a seat in the European Parliament. Her election in June 2009 was notable for being the first time the Conservatives topped an election in Wales since 1918.

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Leanne Wood
Leanne Wood AM (born 13 December 1971), is a Welsh politician and the leader of Plaid Cymru. She was born in the Rhondda, Wales, and has represented the South Wales Central region for Plaid Cymru as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales since 2003, and was elected leader of Plaid Cymru on 15 March 2012. Wood, a Welsh language learner, is known as a republican and socialist.
Leanne Wood was born in Llwynypia on 13 December 1971. She grew up in the nearby Rhondda village of Penygraig, where she attended Tonypandy Comprehensive School (now Tonypandy Community College).
From 1997 to 2000, Wood worked with the Mid Glamorgan Probation Service as a probation officer. From 1998 to 2000 she was co-Chair of the National Association of Probation Officers. Wood worked as a support worker for Cwm Cynon Women's Aid from 2001 to 2002, where she has been Chair since 2001. Wood lectured in social work at Cardiff University from 2000, until her election to the National Assembly for Wales in 2003.
Wood was a councillor on Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council from 1995 to 1999. After leaving the probation service in 2000, she was Jill Evans MEP's political researcher until 2001. Wood was Chair of Cardiff Stop the War Coalition from 2003 to 2004.

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Lewis Valentine
Lewis Edward Valentine (1 June 1893 – March 1986) was a Welsh politician, Baptist pastor, author, editor, and Welsh-language activist.
Valentine was born in Llanddulas, Conwy, the son of Samuel Valentine, a limestone quarryman, and his wife Mary. He began studying to go into the ministry of the Baptist church at the University College of North Wales, Bangor but his studies were curtailed due to the First World War.
His experiences in World War I, and his sympathy for the cause of Irish independence, brought him to Welsh nationalism, and in 1925 he met with Saunders Lewis and H.R. Jones, and others at a 1925 National Eisteddfod meeting, held in Pwllheli, Gwynedd, with the aim of establishing a Welsh party.
Discussions for the need of a "Welsh party" had been circulating since the 19th century. With the generation or so before 1922 there "had been a marked growth in the constitutional recognition of the Welsh nation," wrote historian Dr. John Davies. By 1924 there were people in Wales "eager to make their nationality the focus of Welsh politics."

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Lindsay Whittle
Lindsay G. Whittle is a Welsh politician, a member of Plaid Cymru and an Assembly Member (AM) for the South Wales East electoral region in the National Assembly for Wales.
Whittle was born in Caerphilly in South Wales, and lives in Abertridwr, Caerphilly. He repeatedly won local council elections since he entered politics in 1976, while working for several decades as a housing manager in Cardiff. He was first elected Leader of Caerphilly County Borough Council between 1999 and 2004, and a second time in from 2008 to 2011. He is also the Welsh Local Government Association's spokesperson on Equalities, Community Safety and Social Justice.
He stood in every Welsh Assembly election since its formation in 1999, and in seven elections for Westminster Parliament seats in Wales for Plaid Cymru. In 2011 he was elected as Assembly Member for South Wales East in the National Assembly for Wales.
Following his election to the Welsh Assembly, Whittle stood down as leader of Caerphilly County Council, but remains as a backbench councillor.

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Llyr Huws Gruffydd
Llyr Huws Gruffydd, sometimes known as Llyr Hughes Griffiths, (born 25 September 1970) is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician, and a Member of the Welsh Assembly for the North Wales region.
Gruff attended Bro Myrmidon Welsh Comprehensive School and Aberystwyth University. He started his career as a youth worker, becoming Senior Development Officer with the Wales Youth Agency and the chief officer for the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services.
He lives near Ruthin in Denbighshire and, until his election as AM, worked in Holland as the Wales Communications Officer for the National Trust. He was previously a manager with the economic development company, Center a Business.
From 1999 to 2003 Gruffydd worked as a researcher and press officer for Plaid's Members of the European Parliament, Jill Evans MEP and Eurig Wyn MEP. He was also national campaign co-ordinator for Dafydd Wigley, in the run-up to the 1999 National Assembly elections, at which time Wigley was President of Plaid Cymru .
He was Plaid Cymru's Assembly candidate for Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire in 2003 when he came within 400 votes of taking the seat from Christine Gwyther AM.

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Margo MacDonald
Margo MacDonald MSP (Scottish Gaelic: Mairead NicDhòmhnaill, born 19 April 1943) is a Scottish politician and former Scottish National Party MP and Deputy Leader. She is presently an Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians region.
Margo was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, and educated at Hamilton Academy^{[citation needed]}; she trained as a teacher of physical education.
Margo MacDonald is married to former politician and columnist Jim Sillars, who won the 1988 Glasgow Govan by-election for the SNP.
Her daughter Petra is married to one half of The Proclaimers, Craig Reid and they have four children (Rosanne, Lena, Peter and John).
A committed and vocal supporter of Scottish independence, Margo MacDonald won the Glasgow Govan by-election, 1973, as a Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate; Govan had until then been a Labour stronghold. She failed to retain the seat in the following general election of February 1974, but became Deputy Leader of the SNP in 1974, a post she held until 1979.

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Mark Drakeford
Mark Drakeford AM is a Welsh Labour & Co-operative politician, who has represented the constituency of Cardiff West since the National Assembly for Wales election of 2011.
On 1st February 2012 Mark motioned a debate in the Welsh Assembly on Land Valuation Taxation. Below is largely Mark's opening:
A Land Value Tax for Wales
LTV is a tax which would be levied on the annual rental value of specific pieces of land, where the value is determined by different usages, for example, agricultural and industrial land. It is, of course, an alternative to existing forms of taxation, not an addition to them. At its most radical, a LVT would allow for the abolition of Council Tax, Business Rates and Stamp Duty Land Tax, by introducing a levy on the annual rental value of every site in Wales including all residential, commercial and farming land, as well as privately owned estates. Moreover, LVT is a progressive tax. Council Tax is regressive because it imposes a lower burden on the rich than on the poor – and also a lower burden on rich places than poor places. LVT reverses that proposition.

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Mohammad Asghar
Mohammad Asghar (born 30 September 1945), known as Oscar, is a Welsh politician, who has been a member of the Welsh Conservative Party, the Welsh Labour Party, and Plaid Cymru. He came to prominence after being elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2007 as a member of Plaid Cymru on the list for South Wales East. He is best known for being the first ethnic minority and Muslim member of the Assembly, and being the first AM who was a member of a political party to defect to another party
Born in Peshawar, then in British India; he was the only child to, Aslam Khan and Zubaida Aslam. Asghar gained a BA from Peshawar University before moving to Wales in order to complete a course in accountancy in Newport. Asghar initially joined the Conservative party, remaining a member for some two decades, later joining the Labour party in the 1990s. He joined Plaid Cymru sometime after becoming Wales’ first Muslim councilor, representing Victoria ward on Newport City Council. He has stood for Plaid Cymru in general elections. His daughter Natasha Asghar — central to several scandals involving her father's career — also stood as a Plaid Cymru candidate in the 2007 Elections, and also joined the Conservative party at the same time he did so.

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Nerys Evans
(Elizabeth Gwendoline) Nerys Evans (born 1980) is a Welsh politician. She was a member of the National Assembly for Wales representing Plaid Cymru in the Mid and West Wales region. She contested the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire seat for the 2011 National Assembly for Wales elections, finishing in third place, and thus lost her seat in the Assembly.
She is Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales' first female Director of Policy, elected in 2009. http://www.english.plaidcymru.org/nerys-evans-1/
Evans was born in Llangain near Carmarthen. She was educated at Manchester University where she obtained a BA in Government and Political Theory, followed by Cardiff University where she was awarded a MSc in Welsh Politics in 2004.
She became an organiser for Plaid Cymru in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr and worked as press officer for the Plaid Cymru group on Carmarthenshire County Council. More recently she worked as a Political Officer for Plaid Cymru in the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff.

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Rhodri Glyn Thomas
Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM (born 11 April 1953 in Wrexham, Denbighshire) is a Welsh politician. He has been the Plaid Cymru National Assembly for Wales Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr since 1999.
Thomas attended Ysgol Bodhyfryd, Wrexham, and then Ysgol Morgan Llwyd, Wrexham before leaving for the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1975 to study for a degree in Welsh. After graduating in 1978, he studied for a BD degree in Theology at the University of Wales, Bangor and Bala-Bangor Theological Seminary under R. Tudur Jones. In 1991 he studied for a MTh degree at the University of Wales, Lampeter, reading American Theology although the final thesis he submitted was on the Union of Welsh Independents (Undeb yr Annibynwyr Cymraeg) role in the struggle to revive the Welsh Language in the 20th century.
Thomas is a Minister of Religion, the director of a language consultancy, a former Chair of CND Cymru and Welsh spokesperson for the Forum of Private Business.
In 1992, Thomas fought the old Carmarthen constituency in the General Election for Plaid Cymru - Party of Wales. In the 1997 General Election he stood for Plaid Cymru in Carmarthen East & Dinefwr. In 1999 he fought the same constituency in the National Assembly Elections, winning by 6,980 votes. He was reelected in 2007 with an increased majority of over 8,000 making it the Assembly's second safest seat. Plaid Cymru entered into a coalition government with Welsh Labour in July 2007, and Rhodri Glyn Thomas was appointed as Minister for Heritage (19 July 2007), which he resigned from in 2008, over a gaffe. [1]

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Rhodri Morgan
Hywel Rhodri Morgan (born 29 September 1939) is a Welsh Labour politician who, as First Secretary for Wales, and subsequently First Minister, was leader of the Welsh Assembly Government from 2000 to 2009. A former leader of Welsh Labour, he was the Assembly Member for Cardiff West from 1999 to 2011. He is the longest serving Welsh First Minister to date, being in office continuously for 9 years and 10 months. He was elected chancellor of Swansea University on 24 October 2011.
Born in Cardiff, Hywel Rhodri Morgan is the son of Professor T. J. Morgan and the brother of the historian, Prys Morgan.
Morgan was educated at Whitchurch Grammar School (merged with Whitchurch County Secondary School to become the comprehensive Whitchurch High School in 1972) in Whitchurch, Cardiff; St John's College, Oxford studying PPE; and Harvard University, where he gained an MA in Government.
In 1967, he married former Labour MP for Cardiff North Julie Morgan. The couple live in Michaelston-le-Pit (a village situated outside their constituencies), and are supporters of the British Humanist Association. They have a son and two daughters.

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Rodney Berman
Rodney Berman is a Liberal Democrat politician, a former councillor for the Plasnewydd ward, and was also leader of Cardiff Council .
Born and raised in Glasgow, Berman studied at the University of Glasgow where he helped run Glasgow University Liberal Democrats, before moving to Wales to study towards a PhD.
Berman stood for election to Parliament as Welsh Liberal Democrat candidate for Cardiff South and Penarth in 2001, and Rhondda in 1997, coming third on each occasion. His agent for the Rhondda seat was Professor Russell Deacon. Berman was the last Liberal Democrat to secure their electoral deposit there until the general election of 2010.
In 2006, Berman was the first winner of the Local Politician of the Year award.
The local elections of 2008 saw the Liberal Democrats under Berman's leadership increase their representation, winning new seats in the east (Trowbridge), west (Llandaff) and south of the city (Butetown). Under Berman's leadership, the Liberal Democrats gained their largest representation in Cardiff for over a century.^{[citation needed]}

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Saunders Lewis
Saunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis) (15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist and a founder of the Welsh National Party (later known as Plaid Cymru). Lewis is usually acknowledged to have been among the most prominent figures of twentieth-century Welsh-language literature. Lewis was a 1970 Nobel nominee for literature, and in 2005 was voted 10th as Wales' 'greatest-ever person' in a BBC Wales poll.
Born into a Welsh family living in Wallasey, England, in 1893, Lewis was studying English and French at Liverpool University when the First World War broke out. After serving as an officer with the South Wales Borderers he returned to university to graduate in English.
In 1922, he was appointed as a lecturer in Welsh at the University College of Wales, Swansea. During his time at Swansea he produced some of his most exciting works of literary criticism: A School of Welsh Augustans (1924), Williams Pantycelyn (1927), and Braslun o hanes llenyddiaeth Gymraeg (An outline history of Welsh literature) (1932).

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Vaughan Gething
Vaughan Gething AM (born 1974) is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician, who has represented the constituency of Cardiff South and Penarth since the National Assembly for Wales election of 2011.
Gething was born in Zambia in 1974, where his father (whom Gething describes as "a white Welsh economic migrant") was working as a vet. His mother is a black Zambian. When he was two he moved to Dorset, England with his family, which includes three bothers and a sister. He studied at Aberystwyth University and at the Cardiff Law School, University of Wales. Gethin became the first black President of the National Union of Students Wales.
Having completed his training as a solicitor in Cardiff in 2001, with the trade union solicitors Thompsons, Gething chose to specialise in employment law. He became a partner in Thompsons in 2007.
In 2008, at the age of 34, Gething became the youngest President of Wales TUC, also becoming the first black person in the role.
Gething joined the Labour Party when he was 17, to campaign in the 1992 UK general election. He was a councillor from 2004 to 2008, representing Butetown electoral ward on Cardiff Council, having been elected with a majority of two votes. Gething was selected as the Welsh Labour candidate for the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency at the National Assembly for Wales. Lorraine Barrett, who had represented Cardiff South and Penarth since the Assembly's creation in 1999, had announced her intention not to stand down at the 2011 election. At the National Assembly for Wales election on 5 May 2011, Gething increased the Labour vote with a swing of 12.5%. At 13,814, his share of the vote was over 50%, giving him a majority of 6,259 over the Welsh Conservative Party candidate, Ben Gray, placed second.

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This undated photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles officer.

$1 million reward offered on information on ex-cop Christopher Dorner

Denver Post

11 Feb 2013

A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy searches a home for Christopher Dorner, a former police officer, on Sunday in Big Bear Lake, Calif. (Jae C. Hong, The Associated Press) ... "We will not tolerate anyone undermining the security of the community," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said at a news conference. "We will not tolerate this reign of terror." ... "He has targeted those we entrust to protect the public." ... Copyright 2012 The Denver Post ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)

photo: AP / Lee Jin-man

A South Korean man watches a TV news showing a file footage of North Korea's nuclear test at the Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.

‘North Korea conducts third nuclear test’

The Hindu

12 Feb 2013

A magnitude 5.1 “artificial earthquake” was reported near a nuclear test site in North Korea on Tuesday morning, with South Korean Defence Ministry officials telling local media that the seismic activity was the result of a third nuclear test conducted by the reclusive state ... The reported test has, however, not yet been confirmed by North Korean State media ... The move is set to heighten regional tensions ... Keywords....(size: 3.4Kb)

photo: AP / Kevin Frayer

An Indian woman weeps as she and other family members mourn next to the body of a relative who was killed in a stampede on a railway platform at the main railway station in Allahabad, India, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.

India stampede kills 36 at world's largest religious festival

Daily Press

11 Feb 2013

ALLAHABAD, India (Reuters) - A stampede at a railway station in northern India killed at least 36 Hindu pilgrims on Sunday, the busiest day of the world's largest religious festival at which some 30 million had gathered to wash away their sins in the sacred Ganges river. Twenty-seven of the dead were women, mostly elderly and poor. An eight-year-old girl was also crushed to death ... Daily Press Eyewitness ... M ... ....(size: 5.2Kb)

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In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI reads a document in Latin where he announces his resignation, during a meeting of Vatican cardinals, at the Vatican, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013.

Pope Benedict XVI announces he will resign because of 'ill health'

The Independent

11 Feb 2013

Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will resign the papacy because of ill health, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. The decision will send shockwaves through the global Catholic community. It is extremely rare for a Pope to give up the papacy and is unheard of in modern times. The vast majority serve until they die, even when struck down by ill health....(size: 1.9Kb)

photo: AP / Riccardo De Luca

Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during his weekly audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 11, 2012.

Pope Benedict 'Will Not Interfere In Choosing New Pope'

Peace FM Online

12 Feb 2013

Pope Benedict XVI will not interfere in choosing his successor after his shock decision to resign at the end of the month, the pontiff's brother has said. Georg Ratzinger told the BBC the Pope would only "make himself available" if he were needed. Benedict said on Monday he would resign after nearly eight years as the head of the Catholic Church because he was too old to continue at the age of 85 ... But resignation is extremely rare....(size: 3.8Kb)

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12/02/2013 Benefit changes will prompt food poverty surge in Wales (Party of Wales)

noodls

12 Feb 2013

Today Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams will use a debate in Westminster Hall to raise concerns over the recent sharp rise in the use of food banks in Wales and warn that the problem will intensify when the Coalition's welfare reform plans will be enforced in April ... "Plaid Cymru have consistently called for the introduction of a ......(size: 4.3Kb)

Labour leads Conservatives by 12 points in poll

The Guardian

11 Feb 2013

Guardian/ICM poll gives Ed Miliband's party 41% of vote and David Cameron's 29% – the biggest gap in almost a decade. David Cameron and Ed Miliband. Labour's poll lead is the biggest since May 2003. Photograph. Stefan Rousseau/PA ... racked up to finance unsustainable spending" ... Among the assorted other parties, the Scottish National party is at 2% (down one on the month) while Plaid Cymru holds steady on 1% ... ....(size: 5.4Kb)

Tryweryn: 50 years since bombing of reservoir dam

BBC News

10 Feb 2013

"Liverpool's ability to ignore that fact confirmed one of the central tenets of Plaid Cymru - that the national Welsh community, under the existing order, was wholly powerless." Emyr Llewelyn was jailed for a year for the attack. Plaid Cymru's leader, Gwynfor Evans, had been at the forefront of the campaign to halt Tryweryn....(size: 3.3Kb)

08/02/2013 Labour must apologise for billion pound betrayal (Party of Wales)

noodls

08 Feb 2013

(Source ... 08/02/2013. Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards MP has responded to the announcement that there is to be a cut in the EU Budget by expressing concern of the devastating impact this could have on some of Wales' poorest communities and criticising Labour MPs from Wales for betraying their electorate ... Mr Edwards said. ... "Plaid Cymru have always maintained that Wales' future lies within Europe ... distributed by ... (noodl....(size: 2.9Kb)

Alex Salmond juggles Québécois diplomacy with Canadian allegiances

The Guardian

08 Feb 2013

Québec's premier Pauline Marois presents a sculpture to Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond. Photograph. Chris Watt/Reuters ... at its last annual conference in Perth, the SNP MEP Ian Hudghton chaired a sell-out fringe event with senior left of centre Catalan and Basque separatist leaders, and the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru president, Jill Evans, paid for by the European Free Alliance grouping in the European parliament ... ....(size: 9.0Kb)

Plaid Cymru call for assembly powers if Scotland votes 'yes'

BBC News

07 Feb 2013

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has said a "yes" vote in next year's referendum on Scottish independence should lead to further powers for the Welsh assembly being fast-tracked ... But a Plaid MP said a Welsh referendum should only happen after Wales' economy improves ... Adam Price, the former MP now co-chairing Plaid's economic commission, said....(size: 2.0Kb)

Boris Johnson intervenes in "Jones the Jag" row

BBC News

07 Feb 2013

 . For David Jones's political opponents, it's the gift that keeps on giving. Today, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, intervened in typically mischievous style with a call to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's radio phone-in ... He signed off with the message ... Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood was asked about the issue during her guest-of-the-day appearance on the BBC's Daily Politics programme ... ... 1 hour ago....(size: 4.0Kb)

Pushing the boundaries: MPs debate assembly elections

BBC News

07 Feb 2013

It had to compete with the inaugural Political Book Awards and a football match or two, but MPs spent 30 minutes last night debating how members of the National Assembly for Wales are elected ... The changes had been proposed in a consultation document or green paper and a Wales Office spokesperson said at the time ... Fortunately, Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards was able to provide a scoreflash, interrupting the debate to tell MPs....(size: 6.2Kb)

06/02/2013 Plaid Cymru response to The EU's Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020 (Party of Wales)

noodls

06 Feb 2013

Party of Wales) Plaid Cymru response to The EU's Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020 ... In response to the Deputy Minister for Europe's statement on the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020, Plaid Cymru's Europe spokesperson Rhodri Glyn Thomas said.. "Plaid Cymru has always stood up for the Welsh national ......(size: 2.1Kb)

06/02/2013 Plaid Cymru's response to the Welsh Government's grant to Tafwyl (Party of Wales)

noodls

06 Feb 2013

(Source. Party of Wales) Plaid Cymru's response to the Welsh Government's grant to Tafwyl. 06/02/2013 ... The festival had grown in size and popularity when Plaid Cymru was in power on Cardiff Council, and the festival's growth had reflected the growth in the capital's Welshness ... This underlines the need for robust planning rather than ad hoc decisions....(size: 2.3Kb)

06/02/2013 Plaid outlines support for 20mph zones (Party of Wales)

noodls

06 Feb 2013

(Source. Party of Wales) Plaid outlines support for 20mph zones. 06/02/2013 Figures prove policy's effectiveness ... When Plaid Cymru was in the previous government we encouraged more local authorities to introduce these zones when and where they are needed. But progress has been variable across the country....(size: 1.9Kb)

06/02/2013 Plaid raise concerns over probation privatisation (Party of Wales)

noodls

06 Feb 2013

(Source. Party of Wales) Plaid raise concerns over probation privatisation. 06/02/2013. Plaid Cymru's Elfyn Llwyd MP has used today's Justice Questions session in Parliament to express concerns over proposed changes to the justice system, in particular plans to privatise sections of the probation services and the practicalities of rolling out these changes ... Speaking in London after the session, Mr Llwyd said.....(size: 2.7Kb)

Betsi Cadwaladr: AM Aled Roberts criticises hospital refusals

BBC News

06 Feb 2013

Community hospitals earmarked for closure in north Wales are implementing change too quickly by already refusing new patients, says a member of the Welsh assembly. Aled Roberts says Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) is implementing changes too quickly. The board has denied it is rushing through the changes ... Plaid Cymru AM Llyr Huws Griffiths said health managers were "ploughing on regardless" ... A statement said ... ....(size: 4.2Kb)

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Plaid Cymru
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English name	The Party of Wales
Leader	Leanne Wood AM
Chairman	Helen Mary Jones
President	Jill Evans
Chief Executive	Rhuanedd Richards
Honorary President	Dafydd Wigley
Vice President	Jonathan Clark
Founded	5 August 1925 (1925-08-05)
Headquarters	Tŷ Gwynfor, Marine chambers, Anson Court, Atlantic Wharf Cardiff, Wales CF10 4AL
Youth wing	Cymru X
Membership (2011)	7,863 ^[1]
Ideology	Welsh nationalism Welsh independence Social democracy Civic nationalism
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	None
European affiliation	European Free Alliance
European Parliament group	The Greens–European Free Alliance
Official colours	Green
House of Commons (Welsh seats)	3 / 40
House of Lords	1 / 753
European Parliament (Welsh seats)	1 / 4
National Assembly for Wales	11 / 60
Local government in Wales^[2]	166 / 1,264
Website
www.plaidcymru.org
Politics of United Kingdom Political parties Elections

Plaid Cymru (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈplaɪd ˈkəmrɨ], English: The Party of Wales; often referred to simply as Plaid) is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state.^[3]

Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966. Plaid Cymru by 2012 had 1 of 4 Welsh seats in the European Parliament, 3 of 40 Welsh seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 of 60 seats in the National Assembly for Wales, and 206 of 1,264 principal local authority councillors.^[2]

Platform [link]

Plaid Cymru's goals as set out in its constitution are:

To promote the constitutional advancement of Wales with a view to attaining independence within the European Union;
To ensure economic prosperity, social justice and the health of the natural environment, based on decentralist socialism;
To build a national community based on equal citizenship, respect for different traditions and cultures and the equal worth of all individuals, whatever their race, nationality, gender, colour, creed, sexuality, age, ability or social background;
To create a bilingual society by promoting the revival of the Welsh language;
To promote Wales's contribution to the global community and to attain membership of the United Nations.

In September 2008, a senior Plaid Cymru assembly member spelled out her party's continuing support for an independent Wales. The Welsh Minister for Rural Affairs, Elin Jones, kicked off Plaid's annual conference by pledging to uphold the goal of making Wales a European Union member state. She told the delegates in Aberystwyth that the party would continue its commitment to independence under the coalition with Labour.^[4]

History [link]

Main article: History of Plaid Cymru

Beginnings [link]

Plaid Cymru Founding Plaque - geograph.org.uk - 644944

While both the Labour and Liberal parties of the early 20th century had accommodated demands for Welsh home rule, no political party existed for the purpose of establishing a Welsh government. Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru (English: National Party of Wales) was formed on 5 August 1925, by Moses Gruffydd, Fred Jones and Lewis Valentine, members of Byddin Ymreolwyr Cymru (Home Rule Army of Wales; literally, Self-Rulers' Army of Wales); and H. R. Jones, Saunders Lewis and David John Williams of Y Mudiad Cymreig (The Welsh Movement).^[5] Initially, home rule for Wales was not an explicit aim of the new movement; keeping Wales Welsh-speaking took primacy, with the aim of making Welsh the only official language of Wales.^[6]

In the general election of 1929 the party contested its first parliamentary constituency, Caernarvonshire, polling 609 votes, or 1.6% of the vote for that seat. The party contested few such elections in its early years, partly due to its ambivalence towards Westminster politics. Indeed the candidate Lewis Valentine, the party’s first president, offered himself in Caernarvonshire on a platform of demonstrating Welsh people's rejection of English dominion.^[7]

1930s [link]

By 1932 the aims of self-government and Welsh representation at the League of Nations had been added to that of preserving Welsh language and culture. However this move, and the party's early attempts to develop an economic critique, did not broaden its appeal beyond that of an intellectual and socially conservative Welsh language pressure group.^[8] The alleged sympathy the party's leading members (including President Saunders Lewis) towards Europe's totalitarian regimes compromised its early appeal further.^[9]

In 1936 Lewis, David John Williams and Lewis Valentine attacked and set fire to the newly constructed RAF Penyberth air base on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd in protest at its siting in the Welsh-speaking heartland. The leaders' treatment, including the trial judge's dismissal of the use of Welsh and their subsequent imprisonment in Wormwood Scrubs, led to "The Three" becoming a cause célèbre. This heightened the profile of the party dramatically and its membership had doubled to nearly 2,000 by 1939.^[6]^[10]

1940s [link]

Penyberth, and Plaid Cymru’s neutral stance during the Second World War, prompted concerns within the UK Government that it might be used by Germany to insert spies or carry out other covert operations.^[11] In fact, the party adopted a neutral standpoint and urged (with only limited success) conscientious objection to war service.^[12]

In 1943 Saunders Lewis contested the University of Wales parliamentary seat at a by-election, gaining 1,330 votes, or 22%. In the 1945 general election, with party membership at around 2,500, Plaid Cymru contested 7 seats, as many as it had in the preceding 20 years, including constituencies in south Wales for the first time. At this time Gwynfor Evans was elected president.

1950s [link]

1959 election in Merioneth

Gwynfor Evans' presidency coincided with the maturation of Plaid Cymru (as it now began to refer to itself) into a more recognisable political party. Its share of the vote increased from 0.7% in the 1951 general election to 3.1% in 1955 and 5.2% in 1959. In the 1959 election, the party contested a majority of Welsh seats for the first time. Proposals to drown the village of Capel Celyn in the Tryweryn valley in Gwynedd in 1957 to supply the city of Liverpool with water played a part in Plaid Cymru's growth. The fact that the parliamentary bill authorising the drowning went through without support from any Welsh MPs showed that the MPs' votes in Westminster were not enough to prevent such bills from passing.^[13]

1960s [link]

Support for the party declined slightly in the early 1960s, particularly as support for the Liberal Party began to stabilise from its long-term decline. In 1962 Saunders Lewis gave a radio talk entitled Tynged yr Iaith (The fate of the language) in which he predicted the extinction of the Welsh language unless action was taken. This led to the formation of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society) the same year.^[14]

Labour's return to power in 1964 and the creation of the post of Secretary of State for Wales appeared to represent a continuation of the incremental evolution of a distinctive Welsh polity, following the Conservative government's appointment of a Minister of Welsh Affairs in the mid-1950s and the establishment of Cardiff as Wales's capital in 1955.

However in 1966, less than four months after coming third in the constituency of Carmarthen, Gwynfor Evans sensationally captured the seat from Labour at a by-election. This was followed by two further by-elections in Rhondda West in 1967 and Caerphilly in 1968 in which the party achieved massive swings of 30% and 40% respectively, coming within a whisker of victory. The results were caused partly by an anti-Labour backlash. Expectations in coal mining communities that the Wilson government would halt the long-term decline in their industry had been dashed by a significant downward revision of coal production estimates.^[15] However — in Carmarthen particularly — Plaid Cymru also successfully depicted Labour's policies as a threat to the viability of small Welsh communities.^[16]

1970s [link]

In the 1970 general election Plaid Cymru contested every seat in Wales for the first time and its vote share surged from 4.5% in 1966 to 11.5%. Gwynfor Evans lost Carmarthen to Labour, but regained the seat in October 1974, by which time the party had gained a further two MPs, representing the constituencies of Caernarfon and Merionethshire.

Plaid Cymru's emergence (along with the Scottish National Party) prompted the Wilson government to establish the Kilbrandon Commission on the constitution. The subsequent proposals for a Welsh Assembly were, however, heavily defeated in a referendum in 1979. Despite Plaid Cymru's ambivalence toward home rule (as opposed to outright independence) the referendum result led many in the party to question its direction.^[7]

At the 1979 general election the party's vote share declined from 10.8% to 8.1% and Carmarthen was again lost to Labour.

1980s [link]

Caernarfon MP Dafydd Wigley succeeded Gwynfor Evans as president in 1981, inheriting a party whose morale was at an all-time low. In 1981 the party adopted "community socialism" as a constitutional aim. While the party embarked on a wide-ranging review of its priorities and goals, Gwynfor Evans fought a successful campaign (including the threat of a hunger strike) to oblige the Conservative government to fulfill its promise to establish S4C, a Welsh-language television station.^[17] In 1984 Dafydd Elis-Thomas was elected president, defeating Dafydd Iwan, a move that saw the party shift to the left. Ieuan Wyn Jones (later Plaid Cymru leader) captured Ynys Môn from the Conservatives in 1987. In 1989 Dafydd Wigley once again assumed the presidency of the party.

1990s [link]

In the 1992 general election the party added a fourth MP, Cynog Dafis, when he gained Ceredigion and Pembroke North from the Liberal Democrats. Dafis was endorsed by the local branch of the Green Party. The party's vote share recovered to 9.9% by the 1997 general election.

In 1997, following the election of a Labour government committed to devolution for Wales, a further referendum was narrowly won, establishing the National Assembly for Wales. Plaid Cymru became the main opposition to the ruling Labour Party, with 17 seats to Labour's 28. In doing so, it appeared to have broken out of its rural Welsh-speaking heartland, and captured traditionally strong Labour areas in industrial south Wales.

Plaid Cymru in the Assembly era [link]

First Welsh Assembly, 1999–2003 [link]

In the 1999 election Plaid Cymru gained seats in traditional Labour areas such as Rhondda, Islwyn and Llanelli, achieving by far its highest share of the vote in any Wales-wide election. While Plaid Cymru regarded itself as the natural beneficiary of devolution, others attributed its performance in large part to the travails of the Labour Party^[who?], whose nomination for Assembly First Secretary, Ron Davies, was forced to stand down in an alleged sex scandal. The ensuing leadership battle, won by Alun Michael, did much to damage Labour, and thus aided Plaid Cymru, whose leader was the more popular and higher profile Dafydd Wigley. The Labour Party's UK national leadership was seen to interfere in the contest and deny the popular Rhodri Morgan victory.^[18] Less than two months later, in elections to the European parliament, Labour support slumped further, and Plaid Cymru came within 2.5% of achieving the largest share of the vote in Wales. Under the new system of proportional representation, the party also gained two MEPs.

Plaid Cymru then developed political problems of its own. Dafydd Wigley resigned, citing health problems but amid rumours of a plot against him.^[19] His successor, Ieuan Wyn Jones, struggled to impose his authority, particularly over controversial remarks made by a senior councillor, Seimon Glyn.^[20] At the same time, Labour leader and First Minister Alun Michael was replaced by Rhodri Morgan.

In the 2001 general election, Plaid Cymru lost Wyn Jones's former seat of Ynys Môn to Albert Owen, but gained Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, where Adam Price was elected. Notwithstanding these mixed results, the party recorded its highest-ever vote share in a general election, 14.3%.

Second Welsh Assembly, 2003–07 [link]

The Assembly elections of May 2003 saw the party's representation drop from 17 to 12, with the gains of the 1999 election falling again to Labour and the party's share of the vote declining to 21%. Plaid Cymru narrowly remained the second-largest party in the National Assembly ahead of the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Forward Wales.

On 15 September 2003 folk-singer and county councillor Dafydd Iwan was elected as Plaid Cymru's president. Ieuan Wyn Jones, who had resigned from his dual role as president and Assembly group leader following the losses in the 2003 Assembly election, was re-elected in the latter role. Elfyn Llwyd remained the Plaid Cymru leader in the Westminster Parliament. Under Iwan's presidency the party formally adopted a policy of independence for Wales in Europe.

The 2004 local election saw the party lose control of the two south Wales councils it gained in 1999, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Caerphilly, while retaining its stronghold of Gwynedd in the north-west. However, the results led the party to claim a greater number of ethnic minority councillors than all the other political parties in Wales combined,^[21] along with gains in authorities such as Cardiff and Swansea, where Plaid Cymru representation had been minimal. In the European Parliament elections of the same year, the party's vote share fell to 17.4%, and the reduction in the number of Welsh MEPs saw its representation reduced to one.

Old logo (above) and new logo (below)

In the general election of 5 May 2005, Plaid Cymru lost the Ceredigion seat to the Liberal Democrats, the result was a disappointment to Plaid, who had hoped to gain Ynys Môn. Overall therefore, the party's Parliamentary representation fell to three seats, the lowest level for Plaid Cymru since 1992. The party's share of the vote fell to 12.6%.^[22]

In 2006, the party voted constitutional changes to formally designate the party's leader in the assembly as its overall leader, with Ieuan Wyn Jones being restored to the full leadership and Dafydd Iwan becoming head of the voluntary wing of the party. 2006 also saw the party unveil a radical change of image, opting to use "Plaid" as the party's name, although "Plaid Cymru — The Party of Wales" would remain the official title. The party's colours were changed to yellow from the traditional green and red, while the party logo was changed from the 'triban' (three peaks) used since 1933 to a yellow Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica).

Third Welsh Assembly, 2007–11 [link]

In the Welsh Assembly election of 3 May 2007, Plaid Cymru increased its number of seats from 12 to 15, regaining Llanelli, gaining one additional list seat and winning the newly created constituency of Aberconwy. The 2007 election also saw Plaid Cymru's Mohammad Asghar become the first ethnic minority candidate elected to the Welsh Assembly.^[23] The party's share of the vote increased to 22.4%.

After weeks of negotiations involving all four parties in the Assembly, Plaid Cymru and Labour agreed to form a coalition government. Their agreed "One Wales" programme included a commitment for both parties to campaign for a 'Yes' vote in a referendum on full law-making powers for the Assembly, to be held at a time of the Welsh Assembly Government's choosing.^[24] Ieuan Wyn Jones was subsequently confirmed as Deputy First Minister of Wales^[25] and Minister for the Economy and Transport. Rhodri Glyn Thomas was appointed Heritage Minister. He later stood down, and Alun Ffred Jones took over. Ceredigion AM Elin Jones appointed to the Rural Affairs brief in the new 10-member cabinet. Jocelyn Davies became Deputy Minister for Housing, and later, Regeneration.

In the 2010 general election, Plaid returned three MPs to Westminster. They took part in the Yes for Wales cross-party campaign for the March 2011 referendum.

Fourth Assembly, 2011–[link]

In the 2011 Assembly election Plaid slipped from 2nd place to third, being overtaken by the Conservative Party and losing its deputy leader Helen Mary Jones. The party has since begun an inquiry into the reasons for the failure to capitalise on its time in government.^[26] In May 2011, Ieuan Wyn Jones announced that he will stand down as leader within the first half of the Assembly term.^[27] A new leader was to be elected on 15 March 2012, a week before the party's spring conference.^[28]

Following the election, an internal investigation suggested a solution to the party's reduced performance might be found in changing its official name to the English-language "Welsh National Party"^[29] ^[30]. In 2012, Plaid Cymru elected Leanne Wood as the new leader. She is the first female, and the first non-fluent Welsh speaker.^[31]^[32]

Party leadership [link]

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	Name and Portrait	Party Office	Constituency (if any)	Notes
1	Leanne Wood Leanne Wood	Party Leader since 2012 and Welsh Assembly Group Leader	South Wales Central
2	Dafydd Wigley	Honorary Party President From 2001		Former Party President
3	Jill Evans	President From 2010	MEP for Wales	Member of the European Parliament
4	90px Elfyn Llwyd	UK Parliament Group Leader	MP Dwyfor Meirionnydd
5	90px Rhuanedd Richards	Chief Executive		Appointed June 2011 ^[33]

Elected representatives [link]

Electoral performance [link]

European Parliament elections [link]

Year	Percentage of vote in Wales	Seats won
1979	11.7% (83,399)	0 (of 4)
1984	12.2% (103,031)	0 (of 4)
1989	12.9% (115,062)	0 (of 4)
1994	17.1% (162,478)	0 (of 5)
1999	29.6% (185,235)	2 (of 5)
2004	17.1% (159,888)	1 (of 4)
2009	18.5% (126,702)	1 (of 4)

UK general elections [link]

Year	Percentage of vote in Wales	Seats won
1929	< 0.1% (609)	0 (of 36)
1931	0.2% (2,050)	0 (of 36)
1935	0.3% (2,534)	0 (of 36)
1945	1.2% (16,017)	0 (of 36)
1950	1.2% (17,580)	0 (of 36)
1951	0.7% (10,920)	0 (of 36)
1955	3.1% (45,119)	0 (of 36)
1959	5.2% (77,571)	0 (of 36)
1964	4.8% (69,507)	0 (of 36)
1966	4.3% (61,071)	0 (of 36)
1970	11.5% (175,016)	0 (of 36)
1974 (Feb)	10.8% (171,374)	2 (of 36)
1974 (Oct)	10.8% (166,321)	3 (of 36)
1979	8.1% (132,544)	2 (of 36)
1983	7.8% (125,309)	2 (of 38)
1987	7.3% (123,599)	3 (of 38)
1992*	9% (156,796)	4 (of 38)
1997	9.9% (161,030)	4 (of 40)
2001	14.3% (195,893)	4 (of 40)
2005	12.6% (174,838)	3 (of 40)
2010	11.3% (165,394)	3 (of 40)

Six seats contested on a joint Plaid Cymru/Green Party ticket

Welsh Assembly elections [link]

Year	Percentage of vote (constituency)	Percentage of vote (regional)	Seats won (constituency)	Seats won (regional)
1999	28.4% (290,572)	30.6% (312,048)	9 (of 40)	8 (of 20)
2003	21.2% (180,185)	19.7% (167,653)	5 (of 40)	7 (of 20)
2007	22.4% (219,121)	21.0% (204,757)	7 (of 40)	8 (of 20)
2011	19.3% (182,907)	17.9% (169,799)	5 (of 40)	6 (of 20)

European Free Alliance [link]

Name and Portrait	Party Office	Constituency (if any)	Notes
	EU Parliament Group Leader	Wales in the EU

Plaid retains close links with the Scottish National Party, with both parties' MPs co-operating closely with one another. They work as a single group within Westminster, and were involved in joint campaigning during the 2005 general election campaign. Both Plaid and the SNP are part of the European Free Alliance party in the European Parliament, a nationalist and regionalist bloc of parties. The EFA works with the European Green Party in order to form a joint group in the European Parliament: the The Greens–European Free Alliance.

References [link]

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^ ^a ^b Edkins, Keith Local Council Political Compositions at Gwydir.demon.co.uk, 18 February 2012. Accessed 1 March 2012
^ Plaid Cymru - What is Plaid's international vision? Retrieved 16 March 2012
^ "Plaid Cymru want independent Wales". Thisissouthwales.co.uk. http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Plaid-Cymru-want-independent-Wales/article-320673-detail/article.html. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
^ Morgan, Kenneth O. (1981). Rebirth of a nation: Wales, 1880-1980. History of Wales. 6 (reprint 2002 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 206. ISBN 0-19-821760-9. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=asSr71jWDIEC&pg=PA254. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b Philip, Alan Butt (1975). The Welsh Question: Nationalism in Welsh Politics, 1945–1970. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-0537-7.
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^ McAllister, L, Plaid Cymru: the Emergence of a Political Party (Seren, 2001), "The tentative moves towards elaborating and broadening Plaid's policy portfolio did not allow it to shake off its early identity as a language movement or a cultural pressure group." See also Philip, A. B., The Welsh Question (University of Wales Press, 1975), "It is clear that the Welsh Nationalist Party was at the outset essentially intellectual and moral in outlook and socially conservative."
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^ Jones, R. Merfyn (2003). Wrigley, Chris. ed. A companion to early twentieth-century Britain. Blackwell's Companion to British History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 99. ISBN 0-631-21790-8. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GCFb2UkPYaQC&pg=PA99. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
^ Inspector Williams the Spy Catcher^{[dead link]} at South Wales Police website. Retrieved 29 September 2006.
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^ Davies, J, A History of Wales, (1990, rev. 2007), Penguin
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^ Francis, H. and Smith, D., The Fed: A History of the South Wales Miners in the Twentieth Century, (1980), University of Wales
^ Tanner, D., Facing the New Challenge: Labour and Politics 1970–2000 in The Labour Party in Wales 1900-2000 (Ed. Tanner, D., Williams, C. and Hopkin, D.), (2000), University of Wales Press
^ "Plaid pioneer Gwynfor Evans dies". BBC News Online. 21 April 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2002565.stm. Retrieved 31 July 2008. "Mr Evans changed the face of British politics when he became Plaid's first MP in the 1966 Carmarthen by-election. Fourteen years later he threatened to starve himself to death in the cause of Welsh language television, leading to the foundation of S4C."
^ "Morgan is more popular — Michael". BBC News Online. 17 February 1999. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/281166.stm. Retrieved 31 July 2008. "Mr Michael, who has Prime Minister Tony Blair's backing, has been widely predicted to come first due to the form of electoral system used. An electoral college composed of three groups — politicians, trade unions and party members — will determined the winner. Large unions such as AEEU that have made their choice after a ballot of a small number of delegates are backing Mr Michael, but Mr Morgan has won every union member vote, including the shopworkers' union Usdaw on Tuesday night. Mr Morgan, a left-wing backbencher, has also repeatedly topped opinion polls taken among Labour Party members in Wales."
^ "'Wigley downfall' plot denied". BBC News Online. 14 July 2000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/832595.stm. Retrieved 31 July 2008. "Mr Wigley's announcement that he was to give up the presidency of Plaid Cymru in May came as a shock. Although he had been in hospital undergoing heart surgery, he was expected to resume his career. Some Assembly members said privately that he had taken on too much — being an MP, AM, party president and also group leader in the National Assembly. But there was also the suggestion that there was a conspiracy to oust him."
^ "Moderate with a hard act to follow". BBC News Online. 4 April 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2905677.stm. Retrieved 31 July 2008. "But Mr Jones was soon facing questions about his credentials for the job. Seimon Glyn, until then a fairly obscure Plaid Cymru councillor from Gwynedd, had made controversial comments on BBC Radio Wales about inward migration into Welsh-speaking communities. The issue was raised when Mr Jones appeared on the BBC's Question Time in Caernarfon, and he was criticised for his response, in which he at first denied that Mr Glyn had referred to English as a foreign language. There were more problems when Plaid's then chief executive said that Mr Jones was on a learning curve in the job."
^ "Elfyn Llwyd — Plaid Cymru parliamentary leader ePolitix interview". Epolitix.com. 6 September 2006. http://www.epolitix.com/EN/Interviews/200609/f6812672-57e0-4c07-941d-195cbb65b1f4.htm. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
^ "Election 2005 results, Wales". BBC News Online. 1 June 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/region_10.stm. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
^ "First ethnic minority AM elected". BBC News Online. 4 May 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6622925.stm. Retrieved 6 May 2007. "The assembly has its first ethnic minority member with the election of Plaid Cymru's Mohammad Asghar on the regional list. Mr Asghar, who was second on the Plaid list, was the fourth and final AM to be elected in South Wales East."
^ "Details of Labour–Plaid agreement". BBC News Online. 27 June 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6246428.stm. Retrieved 31 July 2008. "On the sensitive issue of giving the Welsh assembly full law-making powers, a referendum on the issue is promised "as soon as practicable, at or before the end of the assembly term (in 2011)". According to the document "both parties will then take account of the success of the bedding down of the use of the new legislative powers (which came in after last May's election) already available and, by monitoring the state of public opinion, will need to assess the levels of support for full law-making powers necessary to trigger the referendum"."
^ "Jones confirmed as deputy leader". BBC News Online. 11 July 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6290480.stm. Retrieved 31 July 2008. "Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones said it was a "great honour" to become the Welsh assembly's Deputy First Minister. He is Plaid's first government minister in the party's 82-year history. In accepting the post as part of the coalition deal with Labour, Mr Jones said it was an "historic statement" personally and for his party."
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^ Williamson, David (23 June 2011). "Plaid Cymru’s new chief executive reveals her vision for the party". Western Mail (Wales) (Cardiff: Media Wales Ltd). http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/welsh-politics/welsh-politics-news/2011/06/23/plaid-cymru-s-new-chief-executive-reveals-her-vision-for-the-party-91466-28926752/. Retrieved 23 June 2011.

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Leanne Wood AM
File:Leanne Wood Senedd.jpg
Member of the Welsh Assembly for South Wales Central
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 2003
Preceded by	Pauline Jarman
Leader of Plaid Cymru
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 March 2012
Preceded by	Ieuan Wyn Jones
Personal details
Born	(1971-12-13) 13 December 1971 (age 40) Rhondda, Wales
Political party	Plaid Cymru
Website	http://www.leannewood.org

Leanne Wood AM (born 13 December 1971), is a Welsh politician and the leader of Plaid Cymru. She was born in the Rhondda, Wales, and has represented the South Wales Central region for Plaid Cymru as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales since 2003, and was elected leader of Plaid Cymru on 15 March 2012. Wood, a Welsh language learner, is known as a republican and socialist.

1 Early years
2 Political career
3 Elections contested
4 References
5 External links
6 Offices held

Early years [link]

Leanne Wood was born in Llwynypia on 13 December 1971.^[1]^[2] She grew up in the nearby Rhondda village of Penygraig, where she attended Tonypandy Comprehensive School (now Tonypandy Community College).^[3]^[4]

From 1997 to 2000, Wood worked with the Mid Glamorgan Probation Service as a probation officer. From 1998 to 2000 she was co-Chair of the National Association of Probation Officers.^[2] Wood worked as a support worker for Cwm Cynon Women's Aid from 2001 to 2002, where she has been Chair since 2001.^[2]^[5] Wood lectured in social work at Cardiff University from 2000, until her election to the National Assembly for Wales in 2003.^[2]^[6]

Political career [link]

Wood was a councillor on Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council from 1995 to 1999.^[2] After leaving the probation service in 2000, she was Jill Evans MEP's political researcher until 2001.^[2] Wood was Chair of Cardiff Stop the War Coalition from 2003 to 2004.^[2]

Wood has been a Member of the National Assembly for Wales (AM) since the election of 1 May 2003, representing the South Wales Central region for Plaid Cymru.^[1] She was the party's Shadow Social Justice Minister between 2003 and 2007.^[1]

In December 2004 she was the first assembly member to be ordered out of the chamber for referring to the Queen as "Mrs Windsor" during a debate. Lord Elis-Thomas asked Wood to withdraw the remark on the grounds of discourtesy. When she refused, she was ordered to leave.^[7] She later said: "I don't think I was treated fairly, I don't think it was necessary.", "I don't recognise the Queen, I called her that because that's her name."^[8] Wood was arrested on 8 January 2007 for protesting against the UK's Trident nuclear missile programme at Faslane naval base in Scotland.^[9]^[10]

Wood became Plaid Cymru's sustainability spokesperson from the formation of the One Wales government, a coalition between Labour and Plaid Cymru in July 2007, remaining in the role until the end of Assembly's term in 2011.^[1] While in the role, Wood campaigned on 'green' issues, including calling for more land to be made available for growing food.^[11]

During the 2011 referendum on extending the National Assembly for Wales' law-making powers, Wood was Plaid Cymru's representative on the all-party Yes for Wales steering group, which campaigned successfully for a 'Yes' vote.^[12]^[13] She is Chair of the PCS Cross-Party Group in the Welsh Assembly.^[5] According to the BBC, Wood's particular areas of interest are: poverty; women's issues; social services; criminal justice; social exclusion; mental health; anti-privatisation; and anti-war.^[1] Her Plaid Cymru profile includes her commitment to working "for Wales to become a self-governing decentralist socialist republic." ^[14]

On 23 January 2006 Wood was the first Welsh politician to start weekly podcasts from her website^{[citation needed]}.

Scrutiny [link]

Between 2009 and 2011, Wood led the exposure of excesses at the Wales Audit Office, while under the control of Jeremy Colman, Auditor General for Wales.^[15] Through the Freedom of Information Act, she uncovered a severance package of £750,000, personally authorised by Colman, to the former chief operating officer Anthony Snow.^[16] Further scrutiny uncovered more self-authorised expenses, including training costs for Colman and Snow and the £464 cost of hiring a chauffeur-driven Mercedes for Snow to attend a meeting on how to save public money.^[17]^[18] Colman resigned in February 2010 following an internal investigation, subsequently pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.^[19]^[20]

Figures obtained by Wood under the Freedom of information Act revealed the level of pay among university vice-chancellors in Wales. Over 270 people were paid over £100,000 per annum by Welsh universities in 2009. It was noted that all Welsh university vice-chancellors received more pay than the £134,723 salary of Carwyn Jones, Wales' First Minister, and some were paid more than the £197,000 entitlement of David Cameron, the UK Prime Minister.^[21]

Information obtained by Wood showed thousands of workers in Wales to have been paid below the Minimum Wage since 2002-03. The underpayments involved over 1000 employers in Wales. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills subsequently asked HM Revenue and Customs to "press for prosecution where there is clear evidence that the employer has committed an offence.", in 2010. No prosecutions had begun by June 2011.^[22]

Policy development [link]

Wood has produced two major policy documents. In 2008, she published Making Our Communities Safer. Drawing on her four years’ previous experience as Plaid Cymru’s Social Justice and Regeneration spokesperson and committee member, as well as her previous work as a Probation Officer, it argued for the criminal justice system in Wales to be devolved.^[23]

A Greenprint for the Valleys was published in 2011, in which Wood argued for a job creation programme aimed at regenerating the former coalfield areas of the valleys. It contains initiatives including: a Green Construction Skills College; implementing an integrated transport plan for the valleys; creating a land bank for renewable energy and food production; and a programme to renovate heritage buildings. It also suggests providing financial support for home energy efficiency measures and for setting up of green co-operatives.^[24]

Leader of Plaid Cymru [link]

Wood was elected leader of Plaid Cymru on 15 March 2012, defeating Elin Jones and Dafydd Elis Thomas. ^[25] Her leadership platform included a call for "real independence — genuinely working to end war, inequality and discrimination", emphasising economic and environmental concerns alongside constitutional reform.^[26] Supporters of Wood's leadership campaign included former Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price, former Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Iwan and former Cymdeithas yr Iaith chair Menna Machreth.^[27]^[28] However Elin Jones accused her of "Fisher Price" politics.^[29]

Elections contested [link]

UK Parliament elections

Date of election	Constituency	Party	Votes	%
1997	Rhondda	Plaid Cymru	5,450	13.4
2001	Rhondda	Plaid Cymru	7,183	21.1

Welsh Assembly elections

Date of election	Region	Party	Votes	%	Results
2003	South Wales Central	Plaid Cymru	27,956	15.44	Elected	Multi-members party list
2007	South Wales Central	Plaid Cymru	32,207	15.5	Elected	Multi-members party list
2011	South Wales Central	Plaid Cymru	28,606	13.7	Elected	Multi-members party list

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Your representatives; Leanne Wood". BBC News Democracy Live website. BBC. 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/33490.stm. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Ms Leanne Wood, AM's biography", Debrett's website (Debrett's), 2011, http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/23617/Leanne+WOOD.aspx, retrieved 25 July 2011
^ "'Who's who' guide to Assembly Members - May 2011" (PDF), The Welsh NHS Confederation election briefing (NHS Confederation): p. 19, May 2011, http://www.welshconfed.org/companyData/1898/resources/Election%20Briefing.pdf, retrieved 28 July 2011
^ Rob Jones (11 January 2007). "People and places that helped shape the Tonypandy we know today". Rhondda Leader (Pontypridd: Media Wales Ltd). http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/south-wales-news/rhondda/2007/01/11/people-and-places-that-helped-shape-the-tonypandy-we-know-today-91466-18459885/. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Leanne Wood AM (Plaid, South Wales Central)", Understanding ModernGov website (Understanding ModernGov), 2011, http://www.moderngov.com/speakers/leanne-wood-2011, retrieved 25 July 2011
^ "AM's prison claim over ID cards". BBC News website (BBC). 12 December 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4519104.stm. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
^ "Leanne Wood expelled from chamber". BBC News Democracy Live website (BBC). 31 October 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/historic_moments/newsid_8199000/8199372.stm. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
^ "AM expelled for 'Mrs Windsor' jibe". BBC News (BBC). 1 December 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4060043.stm. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
^ Tomos Livingstone (9 January 2007). "Plaid Cymru pair arrested at Trident base". Western Mail (Cardiff: Media Wales Ltd). http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/newspolitics/tm_headline=plaid-cymru-pair-arrested--at--trident-base&method=full&objectid=18424893&siteid=50082-name_page.html. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
^ Auslan Cramb (9 January 2007). "Nine are held in Faslane demo". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/09/nfaslane09.xml. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
^ "A lot meant by an allotment". Western Mail (Cardiff: Media Wales Ltd). 7 September 2009. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/09/07/a-lot-meant-by-an-allotment-91466-24622358/. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
^ "Wales says yes in referendum vote". BBC News website (BBC). 4 March 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-12648649. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ "LCO Process Is Holding Back Wales, Says Plaid AM", Plaid Cymru (Plaid Cymru), 20 December 2010, http://www.english.plaidcymru.org/news/2010/12/20/lco-process-is-holding-back-wales-says-plaid-am/, retrieved 29 July 2011
^ "Leanne Wood AM", Plaid Cymru website (Plaid Cymru), 2011, http://www.english.plaidcymru.org/leanne-wood-am/, retrieved 6 August 2011
^ Martin Shipton (6 May 2011). "Wales Audit Office spent £200,000 on external legal and HR help". Western Mail (Cardiff: Media Wales Ltd). http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/05/06/wales-audit-office-spent-200-000-on-external-legal-and-hr-help-91466-28643268/. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ Martin Shipton (24 September 2010). "Audit official’s deal was struck the first day he qualified for early retirement". Western Mail (Cardiff: Media Wales Ltd). http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/09/24/audit-official-s-deal-was-struck-the-first-day-he-qualified-for-early-retirement-91466-27334015/#ixzz1TU4xgw7S. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
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Labour (30)	Leighton Andrews Mick Antoniw (Rosemary Butler) Christine Chapman Jeffrey Cuthbert Alun Davies Keith Davies Mark Drakeford Carwyn Jones † Rebecca Evans Vaughan Gething Janice Gregory John Griffiths Lesley Griffiths Edwina Hart Mike Hedges Jane Hutt Julie James Ann Jones Huw Lewis Sandy Mewies Julie Morgan Lynne Neagle Gwyn R Price Jenny Rathbone David Rees Carl Sargeant Ken Skates Gwenda Thomas Joyce Watson

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Plaid Cymru (11)	Jocelyn Davies Dafydd Elis-Thomas Llyr Huws Gruffydd Bethan Jenkins Alun Ffred Jones Elin Jones Rhodri Glyn Thomas Leanne Wood† Ieuan Wyn Jones Simon Thomas Lindsay Whittle

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Leader	Ieuan Wyn Jones (2006–2012) · Leanne Wood (2012-present)

Assembly Group Leader (party leader since 2006)	Dafydd Wigley (1999–2000) · Ieuan Wyn Jones (2000–2012) · Leanne Wood (2012-present)

Presidents (Party leader pre-2003)	Lewis Valentine (1925–1926) · Saunders Lewis (1926–1939) · John Edward Daniel (1939–1943) · Abi Williams (1943–1945) · Gwynfor Evans (1945–1981) · Dafydd Wigley (1981–1984) · Dafydd Elis-Thomas (1984–1991) · Dafydd Wigley (1991–2000) · Ieuan Wyn Jones (2000–2003) · Dafydd Iwan (2003–2010) · Jillian Evans (2010–present)

Chair (chief executive)	Phil Williams (1970–1976) · Ieuan Wyn Jones (1980–1982) Dafydd Iwan (1982–1984) · Syd Morgan (1984–1990) · Ieuan Wyn Jones (1990–1992) · John Dixon (1992–1994) · Jillian Evans (1994–1996) · Marc Phillips (1996–2000) · Elin Jones (2000–2002) · John Dixon (2002–2010) · Gwenllian Lansdown (2010–2011) · Rhuanedd Richards (2011–2012) · Helen Mary Jones (2012-present)

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Former	Eurig Wyn (1999–2004)

Current	Jillian Evans (1999-)

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Founders

Byddin Ymreolwyr Cymru (The Welsh Home Rule Army)	Moses Gruffydd · Fred Jones · Lewis Valentine

Y Mudiad Cymreig (The Welsh Movement)	H.R. Jones · Saunders Lewis · David John Williams

Other co-founders	David James Davies (formerly Labour) · Ambrose Bebb

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Persondata
Name	Wood, Leanne
Alternative names
Short description	Welsh politician
Date of birth	13 December 1971
Place of birth	Rhondda, Wales
Date of death
Place of death

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Jillian Evans

Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 June 2009
Constituency	Wales
Personal details
Born	(1959-05-08) 8 May 1959 (age 53) Ystrad Rhondda, Glamorgan, Wales
Nationality	Welsh
Political party	Plaid Cymru
Spouse(s)	Syd Morgan
Alma mater	University of Wales, Aberystwyth Glamorgan University
Occupation	Member of the European Parliament
Website	http://www.jillevans.net/

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New constituency	Member of European Parliament for Wales 1999 – present	Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by John Dixon	Chair of Plaid Cymru 1994–1996	Succeeded by Marc Phillips
Preceded by Dafydd Iwan	President of Plaid Cymru 2010–present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Evans, Jillian
Alternative names
Short description	Welsh politician
Date of birth	8 May 1959
Place of birth	Ystrad Rhondda, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Date of death
Place of death

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