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Hundreds of jobs in south Wales are set to be created. The new posts will be based at the Twin Peaks Hangar at St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan. St Athan is one of five new enterprise zones in Wales which officially opened for business last month.

Some £800 million will be invested at Welsh steel plants over the next five years. First Minister Carwyn Jones announced the news after he recently met senior officials from the Indian Tata company.

Some 300 staff in Pencoed are worried about keeping their jobs after news that its parent firm will be downsizing.

Local election campaigners in Wales clashed on matters of regional pay today (April 4). First Minister Carwyn Jones said: “People simply don’t trust the Lib Dems”.

In the financial year 2010-11 it cost the taxpayer more than £84 million to run employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal in England, Wales and Scotland, from Ministry of Justice figures

Unemployment in Wales has bucked the national trend by falling for the second consecutive month. The total number out of work between October and December last year dropped by 3,000 to 134,000.

Welsh Water has brought 50 new jobs to Newport and Flintshire.

A nurse from Anglesey took 69 days of sick leave in three years, a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel sitting in Cardiff heard.

Council tax payers are being asked to step into the breach to fill the gap left by UK government cuts to police funding. The police precept in North Wales will go up by 2.5 per cent, the smallest increase in Wales.

Eight new jobs are being generated in Pontypridd as Brecon Pharmaceuticals said it will expand its workforce in Wales.

Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones yesterday (Thursday) announced plans for a new institute to generate ideas for public policy in Wales.

“This is an example of the worst of PFI,” said deputy leader of Carmarthenshire council Kevin Madge.