Huw Thomas
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Business Correspondent for @BBCWalesNews 📺 📚 This is a personal account, not a BBC one.
Wales, United Kingdom
Joined October 2008
The Monetary Policy Committee voted by a majority of 5-4 to keep interest rates at 4%. Find out more: https://t.co/GHHt7QdrbF
#InterestRates #BankOfEngland #BoE
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Interest rates held at 4% by Bank of England in final decision before Budget Follow live:
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It's the final decision on the base rate before Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget later this month.
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What of the businesses that back Welsh rugby? Re Scarlets, I understand the House of Luxury group wants to examine the detail of the WRU’s plan before commenting further. The group was yet to invest any money, pending the outcome of the consultation. https://t.co/gzuF9MAFCf
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The Welsh Rugby Union announces long-term plans to cut Welsh regions from four to three professional teams by 2027.
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Galw am 'gyllid cenedlaethol' i helpu pobl ddychwelyd i'r gwaith 👇
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Galw am gynyddu'r cymorth sydd ar gael i helpu pobl i ddychwelyd i'r gwaith, wrth i ffigyrau ddangos bod gan Gymru gyfradd uchel o anweithgarwch economaidd.
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'National funding' needed to get people back to work
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Wales has a high rate of people not in work, with some wanting a national fund to help people back into work.
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✈️ From pints to flights, Cardiff Airport’s new CEO is Jon Bridge, the man who rescued Brains brewery after Covid.
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Remembering the late Actress, Glynis Johns (5 October 1923 – 4 January 2024)
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Hedera’s Hashgraph replaces blockchain’s linear chain of blocks with a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), where transactions confirm each other asynchronously, similar to how news spreads by word of mouth The result: parallel consensus, sub-second finality, high throughput & low fees
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Ahead of sharing a special message at the @BAFTACymru Awards this evening, it was a pleasure to spend time at Bad Wolf Studios in Cardiff — meeting @BAFTA Prince of Wales Bursary trainees, exploring the sets of The Other Bennet Sister and Doctor Who, and joining a puppetry
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Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻 In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year. Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it. ***** "I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often
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Port Talbot's green future takes shape a year after closure
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A year after the blast furnaces were switched off, work on a new electric arc furnace is under way.
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Blwyddyn ers i Tata Steel ddiffodd ei ffwrneisi chwyth ym Mhort Talbot, mae gwaith ar droed i 'adeiladu dyfodol' cynhyrchu dur yn y dref https://t.co/vZponpiJda
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Mae gwaith ar droed i "adeiladu dyfodol" cynhyrchu dur ym Mhort Talbot, sy'n golygu newidiadau mawr i bawb yn yr ardal.
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I asked the ex-Reform UK leader in Wales if he was ashamed after taking Russia-linked bribes to make statements in the European Parliament. Nathan Gill is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey in November ⬇️ https://t.co/ke6dogcTqc
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BBC reporter Meleri Williams asks Nathan Gill if he is ashamed of accepting bribes.
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Rupert Murdoch has resolved the bitter dispute over his sprawling media empire, handing his eldest son Lachlan future control of the business and buying out his three other children from their family trust in a $3.3bn deal. https://t.co/tgJsHoDpVx
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Our "In God We Trust" Necklace is here – a powerful emblem of your belief in God and country. Adorned with the American flag and engraved with "FAITH" and "HONOR," each purchase helps fund service dogs for veterans who have sacrificed so much.
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Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)
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Welsh Tory Laura Anne Jones defects to Reform
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Senedd politician Laura Anne Jones has defected from the Tories to Reform, Nigel Farage announces.
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BBC Sounds is blocked outside UK today, so if you’re in Ireland or overseas let me know how it affects you - Lots more on this ep of @BBCR4Feedback where I talk to Jonathan Wall head of Sounds (if you can still access it) 👇🏼
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Andrea Catherwood speaks to BBC Sounds about its imminent closure to overseas listeners.
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