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No to new houses in St Athan PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alun Cairns AM   
Monday, 01 March 2010 13:57

VALE Conservative candidate Alun Cairns is backing residents of St Athan who are fighting plans to build a hundred new homes in the village.

Villagers argue that the development, at St John's Well, would be out of scale, increasing the size of the village by a fifth.

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Action needed on NHS bureaucracy PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alun Cairns AM   
Friday, 15 January 2010 09:57
SOUTH Wales West regional Conservative AM Alun Cairns has welcomed news that Auditor General for Wales Jeremy Colman is to investigate how the new health boards are controlling management costs.

This announcement comes in the wake of damaging revelations over Christmas that the mergers of 22 Local Health Boards in Wales with NHS Trusts to create seven new bodies had not led to the loss of a single manager - although their jobs had disappeared.

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Decline in tourist numbers for Gower PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alun Cairns AM   
Monday, 11 January 2010 15:06
AREAS like Swansea and Gower are paying the price for the Welsh Assembly Government's disastrous decision to abolish the Wales Tourist Board and run tourism itself.

That's the claim of regional Conservative AM Alun Cairns who said that the number of tourists visiting Wales had fallen by more than 1.2m during the past three years - despite the recession and the strong Euro.

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Welsh households to miss out on boiler scheme PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alun Cairns AM   
Thursday, 07 January 2010 15:39
THE UK Government's much-publicised boiler scrappage scheme won't benefit a single household in Wales.

Hailed as "the UK's first-ever boiler trade-in initiative" it has emerged that the scheme only applies to households in England.

Alun Cairns, the Welsh Conservatives' Parliamentary candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan, today accused ministers of rationing access to energy efficiency improvements.

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Ambulances abandoning patients PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alun Cairns AM   
Monday, 16 November 2009 11:22
THE REFUSAL of the Welsh Ambulance Service to ferry two elderly Barry women back home from hospital in Cardiff has been raised on the floor of the Senedd by Regional AM Alun Cairns.

He tackled First Minister Rhodri Morgan about the two separate incidents which saw women from Barry, who were in their 80's, told to find their own way home from the University Hospital at the Heath - one at 3am.
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