内容摘要：Cllr Pursehouse said: "This milestone is a testament to our continuing commitment to provide high quality, affordable housing."

Cllr Pursehouse said: "This milestone is a testament to our continuing commitment to provide high quality, affordable housing."

About 16,000 people die from blood cancer every year in the UK, making it the third biggest cancer killer, according to Blood Cancer UK.There are currently 909,000 donors on the stem cell register with leading charity Anthony Nolan.

Of those, 16% are from an ethnic minority background, making it harder for some patients to find donors.Yasmin Sheikh, head of policy and public affairs at Anthony Nolan, said: "Because genetic diversity in people from an Asian or other minority ethnic background is just so vast, we really need to be recruiting in very high numbers, not just in the UK but across the whole of the world, in order to make that representation and change the odds of an individual patient in terms of finding a match."Somali families in north London say they are fighting a battle for their children's lives.

"The issue is the supply and demand of recreational drugs," explains community champion and parent of seven, Sadia Ali. "The workforce is children and young people."When she set up her charity, Minority Matters, in Islington 15 years ago, the aim was to help children from a refugee background succeed in literacy and numeracy.

But instead the charity has found itself trying to safeguard children, many of whom are being exploited through the "county lines" drugs trade.

"It is a billion-pound industry," Ms Ali says. "We are paying the price for that. We are losing a generation of young people."Education Secretary Lynne Neagle said postponing the change until the next Senedd term would let schools focus on other major improvements.

She admitted "opinion was hugely divided" on the issue, which had been strongly opposed by teaching unions, as well as organisers of Wales’ biggest agricultural show The Royal Welsh, and some tourist attractions.If the proposals had gone ahead, the half term break in October 2025 would have been extended to a fortnight, with a five week rather than six week holiday in summer 2026.

Eithne Hughes, director of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) Cymru, said it was "disappointing" the issue has been given such a high priority by the Welsh government, branding it an "unwelcome distraction and an enormous waste of time"."We are relieved that this decision has been made, although calling it a 'pause' sounds like a face-saving exercise as it is surely pointless to go round this loop again.