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17 Most Recent Press Articles
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 24th Jan 2008
This week, Post Office Ltd announced the results of their consultation into the proposed closure of 28 branches across the region, 6 of which were in Cardiff.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Western Mail on Mon 26th Nov 2007
While re-organisation and re-configuration seem to be the watchwords in Welsh health debate, it seems that prevention has become largely forgotten.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 15th Nov 2007
The Welsh Assembly Government recently unveiled its budget plans for the next three years and they make dismal reading, especially for local councils.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 1st Nov 2007
Last Tuesday the Post Office announced their next round of closures. Across Wales 1 in 5 Post Offices will close including 6 in Cardiff. Not surprisingly, the plans have met with anger from local residents, not least because they follow a previous round of highly controversial closures.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 13th Sep 2007
Early September is always a bit like the calm before the storm. The "storm" is the return of the university students who make up about a quarter of the electorate in my constituency.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 30th Aug 2007
The campaign to save Llanishen and Lisvane reservoirs from development has won another victory. The developers WPD have lost their first Planning Appeal. The Independent Planning Inspector rejected their appeal on virtually every count. I have read many Inspector's Reports over the years but I can't remember one which has been so strong in rejecting all the main arguments put forward by the developers.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 21st Jun 2007
Around 10 million 999 calls were made to the police in 2004, 70% of these were not for genuine emergencies. . The levels of calls were however understandable when local police numbers are difficult to remember and the police are often too busy to deal immediately with more minor issues. Many people call 999 because they don't know what else to do. We are lucky in Cardiff to have the excellent Connect 2 Cardiff Service to deal with a lot of the problems but other areas are not so lucky.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 24th May 2007
The electorate presented us with quite a poser on 3rd May. No party has an overall majority in the Assembly, but we have to find a sensible and stable way to govern Wales for the next 4 years. Despite the Liberal Democrat/Labour Partnership Government from 2000-2003, we are not yet used to coalition government in Wales.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in British Social Worker on Wed 21st Mar 2007
Welsh Liberal Democrats believe that social workers will have to play an increasingly important role in our care system.An increasingly elderly population and increased expectations will create huge challenges.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Tue 13th Mar 2007
Last time I wrote my column for the Cardiff Post, I used it to support proposals for Controlled Parking Zones in some of our inner-city areas, which would have provided more residents' parking and would have stopped commuters from parking all day outside local shops, thus making it impossible for shoppers to park.
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Written by Jenny Randerson and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 1st Mar 2007
A couple of weeks ago, we had a well predicted snowfall and the health services in Cardiff seemed to go into paralysis. The most obvious symptom was that the Ambulance Service took several hours to respond to 999 calls. In one case, the patient died after 8 consecutive calls failed to get him an ambulance. The odd thing about this latest ambulance crisis, is that the snowfall was on Friday, but the crisis lasted until the following Monday, because far more people than normal were dialling 999.
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Written by Jenny Randerson and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 15th Feb 2007
The attempt of Cardiff Council to introduce Controlled Parking Zones has received much publicity in recent weeks.Probably one of the most common complaints I receive from residents is parking. Unfortunately, the truth about modern life is that we have too many cars on too little roadways. Last week's gridlocks gave us an insight into what we can expect on a daily basis if we do not address this problem now.
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Written by Jenny Randerson and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 25th Jan 2007
Free prescriptions for all in Wales are voted through this week. Sounds good on the surface doesn't it? But beneath the headlines for this ill advised policy there are problems. The Welsh Liberal Democrats have always thought there were better ways of spending precious NHS funds.
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Written by Jenny Randerson and published in Cardiff Post on Thu 11th Jan 2007
In all the hue and cry about the Assembly Budget last week many readers may have missed another important decision the Assembly took. In a debate proposed by the Welsh Liberal Democrats we agreed to review the funding for hospices in Wales. We have been relying on hospices to provide the highest standards of care to patients with incurable illnesses, while the NHS only contributes a fraction of the cost of that care. In recent years we have provided just over 20% of hospice funding from the public purse and this is going down, not up. In the case of Children's hospices we provide only 4% of their costs.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Western Mail on Mon 18th Dec 2006
Western Mail Article By Jenny Randerson AM
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Tue 28th Nov 2006
The first of what may be several Public Inquiries into the plans to build on the site of Llanishen and Lisvane Reservoirs has now finished. It lasted several weeks and many local residents showed their support and attended for part of the time.
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Written by Jenny Randerson AM and published in Cardiff Post on Tue 17th Jan 2006
This week, the Assembly has debated the Local Government settlement. That is the money the Labour Assembly Government gives each year to local Councils. In short, the less the Council gets from the Assembly Government, the more it has to find from Council Tax payers to top it up.
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