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World Mental Health Day 2019 is here and this year’s theme is suicide prevention. meanwhile the mental health Foundation’s Mental Health Awareness week in May had the theme of “body image”. Let’s put this together and examine the connections.
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Athony Gormley at the Royal Academy was packed when ANM visited on Friday. But takings have got to cover, not just the visible, but the years’ long preparation for the massive scale exhibits.The structural work has been accomplished bit by bit, over the preceding two years, fitting the work in between other exhibitions at the gallery.
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Well over 500 people comprising children, Unions, and environmental and community groups, met in Castle Square Swansea on Friday for Youth Strike for Climate, beginning a week of global climate strike action. In the run up to the event, there was some tension between groups as the organisers tried to define their own event, risking […]
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The launch of the Wales Integrated Autism Service in the first half of 2019 was just part of a very busy time for the autistic community in Wales. The Assembly narrowly voted to abandon the passage of a dedicated Welsh Autism Act in January, and since then Wales has been busy consulting on the new Autism […]
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Swansea Council’s Climate Emergency declaration meeting on Thursday evening was well attended. The Chair referred to it as the ‘best meeting’ in a long time. The Climate Emergency was duly declared unanimously following a motion brought by Councillors Mary Sherwood and Peter Jones after Extinction Rebellion’s April event. Among those in the public gallery were […]
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The Future Generations Act Commissioner, Sophie Howe has written to Vaughn Gethin, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services, about safety concerns with the 5G roll out. Concerned Bridgend parent Dan Ellis received a copy of this letter on Thursday from the Commissioner in response to his original enquiries. Mr Ellis became concerned about electro […]
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The Swansea Planning Committee decided against Biffa’s planning proposal of a new waste incinerator in Llansamlet today. The plans were rejected unanimously by the Council, who now have the task of finding alternative disposal for the 21,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste, currently going to landfill in Merhyr Tydfil, that the incinerator was going to burn. […]
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15th April marks the beginning of two weeks of International Climate Emergency Activism. A large and fast-growing number of people are now prepared to take part in climate activism, to go on school strikes, to directly confront authority that isn’t on message. Cities and Towns across the UK have been making the demand […]
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A sizeable crowd turned out in the rain today to attend Global School Strike – Swansea, supporting a global day of action following the example of Swedish student Greta Thunberg. .
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The first meeting of the Swansea Branch of Extinction Rebellion (XR) was held at the Environment Centre SA1 on Saturday 1st December. Thirty eight motivated people attended the meeting, which pleased the organisers. After the organised activities there was a lively discussion about what actions to take. One attendee stated she had left her community duties […]
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