
Conor Gogarty
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Investigations editor at @WalesOnline. Specialist journalist of year and scoop of year at '24 UK Regional Press Awards. Email [email protected]
Cardiff
Joined September 2015
@TeleriGlynJones Nigel Farage makes false claim distancing Reform from Russian asset
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'I'm the only person in the senior management team of Reform who's ever even met him,' the Reform UK leader falsely claimed when asked about Nathan Gill
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Here is Nigel Farage claiming to @TeleriGlynJones that he’s the only senior figure in Reform who has ever met Gill. And here is Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice introducing Gill in glowing terms.
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Here is Nigel Farage claiming to @TeleriGlynJones that he’s the only senior figure in Reform who has ever met Gill. And here is Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice introducing Gill in glowing terms.
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I would have liked to ask some questions of the actual Caerphilly by-election candidate too. But Llŷr Powell (who used to work for Gill) wouldn't take any at his own campaign event. Here's my full piece
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We challenged Nigel Farage on a disgraced former colleague and misleading claims about the Nation of Sanctuary – but there was no interview with by-election candidate Llŷr Powell
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I also read Farage's own quotes about bribe-taker Nathan Gill back to him: "I have worked closely with Nathan Gill as leader of Ukip Wales. I have always found him to be hard-working, honest, and loyal." (Zia Yusuf played down Farage's links to Gill last night on Question Time)
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I asked Nigel Farage why his party has been calling Wales' Nation of Sanctuary policy a "waste" of £55m on "asylum seekers" given that more than £45m of it has gone towards helping Ukrainian refugees, a cause he claims to support.
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Controversial businessman Sean Reilly left customers thousands out of pocket after their machinery orders didn't turn up. Then one decided to get on a plane from Amsterdam and confront him at the Royal Welsh Show.
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Companies run by Sean Reilly have left a trail of angry customers
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When we caught a rogue employer in a sting, his direct sales career looked over. Yet he turned up in a new office that exploited people using the same playbook. Questions for regulators and clients like ScottishPower that keep working with these people.
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After being caught in a sting, Zaafir Jamal's career in direct sales looked over. Then he turned up in a new office where young people were manipulated using many of the same tactics that first...
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A watchdog has forced a youth club to close for six weeks after we revealed a rapist had got a job there despite a warning in a background check.
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YMCA Porthcawl is being investigated by a regulator over the hiring of Sarah Vigus
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Jones hit back at accusations that it was a pyramid scheme by misquoting Donald Trump as saying "a corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below" https://t.co/LOEmxjKEgJ
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Laura Anne Jones was part of a business model in which sales reps progress to higher levels depending on how many people they recruit
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The highly controversial scheme that Jones was involved in has a long history of regulatory findings against it. Full story here
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Laura Anne Jones was part of a business model in which sales reps progress to higher levels depending on how many people they recruit
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... sales reps progress to higher levels depending on how many people they recruit. Multi-level marketing is notorious for reps falling into financial difficulty and resorting to desperate attempts to sign up their own loved ones.
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Reform's highest-profile politician in Wales spread a false cancer claim and recruited people into a multi-level marketing scheme. Before her current stint as an MS, Laura Anne Jones made wildly misleading and pseudoscientific claims to promote a business model in which...
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Whistleblowers have frequently spoken out about the hospital’s horrendously unsuitable conditions, and plans to build a replacement have stalled. A desperately bleak situation.
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An employee at Wales' largest hospital has shared pictures saying they are 'deeply troubled' by the extent of necessary repairs
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The coroner found Gareth’s care “was sub-optimal for a number of reasons, including the impact of being cared for outside the main critical care unit” She’s sent a scathing report to Cardiff and Vale health board warning of more deaths unless there is change at the hospital.
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No one should be dying like this in the 21st century. Gareth Johnson, a beloved dad-of-three, died aged 41 at the University Hospital of Wales after he’d been moved out of the critical care unit because of building work on the dilapidated site. https://t.co/R9Zmll0Ned
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'The world will forever be a darker place without him'
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There are calls for Jhoots to be stripped of its NHS contracts. Full story here https://t.co/c8GXocz3o8
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'We are struggling to find morale to keep going'
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Staff at embattled pharmacy chain Jhoots are owed months of pay "We've just finished our 11th week out of operation due to no stock being delivered in eight weeks and no pharmacist for five weeks," said one "We must remain on premises or are threatened with disciplinary action"
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He flew a drone over my house, watched my every move and made me feel like a prisoner
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Dominic Williams would call his ex 'a little girl and a rat' then in his next message tell her he loved her
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A mum is suing Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board for £10million over negligence during childbirth that left her son severely disabled with cerebral palsy and lifelong care needs.
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The child developed cerebral palsy after negligence by hospital staff during his birth
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