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	<title>Bethan Jenkins AC/AM Blog</title>
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	<description>Plaid Assembly Member for South Wales West including  Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot and Swansea</description>
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		<title>Twitter and why it&#8217;s over (for the time being)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to expand briefly on why I am leaving Twitter for now. It&#8217;s not directly because of the comments I made on Martin McGuiness and his decision to meet the Queen. It is because Twitter has become a place where, of late, my comments have been taken out of context, and too often my tweets have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridgend  Council workers protest against Job Evaluation process/ Protest staff Cyngor Penybont yn erbyn y broses Asesiadau Swyddi</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/bridgend-council-workers-protest-against-job-evaluation-process-protest-staff-cyngor-penybont-yn-erbyn-y-broses-asesiadau-swyddi</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a picture of staff at Heronsbridge School, Bridgend protesting last week about Bridgend Council&#8217;s Job Evaluation process. Staff are angry that many of the nursery nurses in the Borough are set to lose over £5,000 of their salaries under the current proposals, and that some schools are changing job descriptions as such that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plaid Neath Port Talbot launch 2012 Local Election Campaign/ Plaid Castell Nedd Port Talbot yn lansio ymgyrch etholiad lleol 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/plaid-neath-port-talbot-launch-2012-local-election-campaign-plaid-castell-nedd-port-talbot-yn-lansio-ymgyrch-etholiad-lleol-2012</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dyma lun o lansiad ymgyrch Llywodraeth Lleol Plaid Cymru Castell Nedd Port Talbot. Mae gennym nifer fawr o ymgeiswyr brwdfrydig sydd yn barod i gymryd y frwydr i Llafur yn yr ardal. Here is a picture of the Plaid Cymru team of candidates who are standing in the local elections in Neath Port Talbot. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Body image, A one woman battle..?</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/body-imgage-a-one-woman-battle</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read an article today by Kira Cochrane in the Guardian, about the work that the MP Jo Swinson has done on the All party committee on body image. It states that Jo Swinson&#8217;s work has been a &#8216;one woman battle&#8217; in terms of campaigning for change in this area. Now, for the record, I think the work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welsh musicians ‘are right to strike’/ Cerddorion Cymreig &#8216;yn iawn i streicio&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/welsh-musicians-%e2%80%98are-right-to-strike%e2%80%99-cerddorion-cymreig-yn-iawn-i-streicio</link>
		<comments>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/welsh-musicians-%e2%80%98are-right-to-strike%e2%80%99-cerddorion-cymreig-yn-iawn-i-streicio#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cerddorion Cymreig &#8216;yn iawn i streicio&#8217; AC Plaid yn cefnogi’r streic ac yn galw am newid gan y BBC &#160; Mae Bethan Jenkins AC yn cefnogi penderfyniad cerddorion  Cymreig i streicio am dri diwrnod  o 19-21 Rhagfyr oherwydd ni fydd y BBC yn talu&#8217;r un swm i ddefnyddio eu caneuon ar Radio Cymru ag ar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t scrap BBC Introducing in Wales</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t scrap BBC Introducing in Wales   Plaid AM joins industry calls to keep vital platform going       Bethan Jenkins AM is calling on the BBC to reconsider plans to bring to an end its Introducing platform in Wales, which is used to promote unsigned new musical talent. A new show is being proposed under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Evaluation mess of Labour-run Bridgend Council</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/job-evaluation-mess-of-labour-run-bridgend-council</link>
		<comments>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/job-evaluation-mess-of-labour-run-bridgend-council#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAST night, I arranged a meeting at Bridgend&#8217;s Evergreen Hall to hear from council staff their very real concerns over the job evaluation process. Ian Titherington from Plaid Cymru, and with a strong trade union background in Cardiff, spoke at the meeting to try and answer the concerns of the many people who turned up and who are utterly frustrated with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These comments won&#8217;t help the Welsh media</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/these-comments-wont-help-the-welsh-media</link>
		<comments>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/these-comments-wont-help-the-welsh-media#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MENNA Richards, the former Director of BBC Wales, delivered a lecture last week in which she criticised politicians for focusing on the future of S4/C to the detriment of BBC Wales and its English language output. First of all, I’d urge Menna Richards to look at what some AMs like myself have raised in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not so great, Auntie</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/not-so-great-auntie</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC Wales yesterday announced its &#8220;saving&#8221; plan &#8211; or cuts, as most of us call it &#8211; as part of the Delivering Quality First  (DQF) measures which have in turn come about as a result of the UK Government&#8217;s decision to freeze the Television Licence, and its plan to call on the BBC to cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something needs fixing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOMETIMES it’s hard to work out what is going on in the jobs market. Take engineering, for example. It is this discipline that the entire fortune of the Western industrialised world was built upon. Its crucible, the birthplace of the industrial Revolution, was Britain, and Wales was hugely important. We are surrounded by the innovations [...]]]></description>
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