What the Assembly Election Means for the Next Two Years
Control of the chamber will decide how much of the government’s programme survives. Here is how to read the new map, seat by seat.
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Control of the chamber will decide how much of the government’s programme survives. Here is how to read the new map, seat by seat.
5 min read
Spending, appointments and trade all sit at the top of the winter list.
Postal ballots and close margins explain most of the wait.
Counting, certification and the swearing-in of a new chamber follow a timetable most voters never see.
Coalitions built bill by bill would slow some plans and kill others.
Two independents from the hill towns are, once again, the votes everyone is courting.
Governing parties almost always lose ground halfway through. This year may be different.
The tightest race in a generation has every campaign rethinking its ground game.
Ines Marlowe
Tomas Reddy
The plan would bring in more than forty million a year for buses, but market traders fear it will keep their customers away.
A quiet stretch of track has become the unlikely success of the region’s rail plan.
Overnight surveys found no breach along the headland, though the path above the cliffs stays closed.
More than a thousand teachers and parents gathered on the steps.
Reservoirs are back above eighty per cent after a wet autumn.
Two hundred new lamps will be fitted by the end of February.
Old warehouses are filling up as the towpaths get a second life.
A single crossing reconnected two halves of a town.
Poor harvests in two growing regions have pushed prices to a seven-year high.
Crews worked double shifts for a fortnight to move more than forty thousand containers.
Owners credit late opening on Thursdays and a loyalty card shared by forty businesses.
We tracked one stall’s receipts for a year, and the story they tell is not the one in the official figures.
The lamp has been automatic for decades. Someone still climbs the stairs every evening to check on it.
Engineers on a converter platform forty miles out keep the lights on ashore.
A small museum by the station has tripled its visitors with a single, very strange show.
Six hours of track, three tunnels and not a single word of narration.
Twelve books for long evenings, chosen by our critics and readers.
A campaign to list the building has drawn support from architects across the country.
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Graduate recruitment is down by a fifth, and careers advisers are rewriting their advice in real time.
Built in a shed and launched from a field, it reached eighty-four kilometres.
Forecasters expect gusts of seventy miles an hour on exposed headlands.
Low snowfall forecasts have water boards planning months ahead.
