SOUTH Wales West Regional AM Alun Cairns is urging Bridgend County Borough Council to scrap any fees associated with its new licensing scheme for pavement cafes.
The council is to run a pilot project in Bridgend town centre under which all traders who place goods, tables and chairs or signs on the pavements outside their premises must have a licence.
REGIONAL Conservative AM Alun Cairns is backing traders in their fight to get taxis and limited traffic back into Bridgend town centre at night.
The traders are to lobby Bridgend County Borough Council to open up Wyndham Street to traffic after 6pm until 10.30pm. They claim that the restaurant trade in the town centre is being killed because people can only reach them on foot – even if they are disabled. The council operates a rigid ban on all traffic.
WELSH stroke patients are being short changed compared to those in England, Regional Conservative AM Alun Cairns has claimed.
Mr Cairns is concerned that according to the Stroke Association, there are only eight specialist stroke units in the entire country although up to 18 hospitals are claiming to have them.
Vale of Glamorgan Conservative candidate Alun Cairns has come out against any proposals to build a 10-mile long barrage across the Severn estuary from Lavernock Point in Penarth to Brean Down at Weston Super Mare.
Mr Cairns said he would fight any plans to build a barrage across the Severn on environmental grounds.
AN ASSEMBLY member who has cycled hundreds of miles for charity has welcomed news of the opening of a mountain bikers’ lodge in the Afan Valley.
Alun Cairns, who is a Conservative AM for South Wales West, said that the provision of the lodge in the former miner’s institute in Dyffryn Rhondda was excellent news for the valley.
