The European Commission identified what it called "anti-Semitic material" in the schoolbooks, "including even incitement to violence", and the European Parliament has called repeatedly for EU funding to the Palestinian Authority to be conditional on removing such content.
Critics say their dams can flood and waterlog fields while the animals themselves can feed on certain agricultural crops and damage trees."Fundamentally, there are issues. There are cases where river banks will fall in and the impact of flooding, particularly on good farmland as well," said Aled Jones, president of NFU Cymru.
"The management [of beavers] is crucial. We can't allow an indiscriminate approach where farming businesses are severely impacted."So we have to have control measures because this is their livelihoods. And we have to remember this is where farmers make their living, and anything negatively impacting that, if they're losing their crops because of flooding, who pays?"to receive our weekly newsletter highlighting uplifting stories and remarkable people from around the world.
The Welsh government has decided not to join a UK-wide return scheme for bottles and cans and will run its own instead.While people in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland will get some money back when they return plastic and metal containers to shops from 2027, in Wales that will happen later with no start date currently set.
It comes after Welsh Labour ministers tried and failed to get the Labour UK government to agree to glass being part of Wales' version of the scheme.
Business groups warned it could rise costs and cause confusion, but Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies blamed rules on devolution that were inherited from the previous Conservative government.There is likely to be more checking back over what they branded
. They promised to cut £5 out of every £100 in government spending within a hundred days, end shortages of doctors and nurses over the same time and give tax breaks to anyone who wanted to pay to go private in the NHS. They promised a freeze on non-essential immigration, more police, big changes to education, massive changes to the benefit system, and cutting tax while increasing spending on defence.To some voters their plans might sound like an appealing pick and mix, but there are big questions over whether many of the plans are remotely workable.
And it's not just their policies they need people to get behind – it's their personnel, too. In the general election, as we revealed, candidates who wanted to stand for the party had expressed offensive views Reform found hard to defend. As they seek to expand, have they come up with a cast of characters the general public could get behind?Voters attracted to Reform don't come from any one political tribe, but ask pollsters and they share a sentiment – they're pretty peeved with the UK in 2025.