Public sector pay awards have been a bone of contention for Stormont since its return last year with health and education ...

The narrow vote for Welsh devolution in the referendum of 1997 brought Elis Thomas back on to the political stage as one of nationalism’s senior figures. Returned in the first Assembly elections ...

Lord Elis-Thomas was a member of the first Senedd, then known as the Welsh Assembly, in 1999 and played a key role as its first presiding officer - a role he held until 2011. He quit Plaid Cymru ...

Former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Elis-Thomas was the first person to hold the role of Presiding Officer in the Welsh Assembly Former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Elis-Thomas, who has died aged 78 ...

Mark Selby is aiming to win a second Welsh Open title this week (Picture ... but the field is still packed with champions as they scrap it out for the £100,000 top prize. This is the last ...

He represented the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency from the founding of the National Assembly – now Senedd ... “Dafydd’s passing will be a huge loss to Welsh politics and the civic ...

Lord Elis-Thomas, also a former Plaid leader and first the Llywydd - or speaker - of the Welsh Assembly, died aged 78 on Friday. His biographer, Aled Eirug, told BBC Politics Wales his old party ...

A Llandudno councillor, Rob Atenstaedt, feared the statue had been nabbed by thieves intent on melting it down for scrap. "Llandudno is the queen of Welsh resorts and it has lost its queen," he said.