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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>Body image, A one woman battle..?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/body-imgage-a-one-woman-battle</link>
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		<title>Welsh musicians ‘are right to strike’/ Cerddorion Cymreig &#8216;yn iawn i streicio&#8217;</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/welsh-musicians-%e2%80%98are-right-to-strike%e2%80%99-cerddorion-cymreig-yn-iawn-i-streicio</link>
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		<title>Don’t scrap BBC Introducing in Wales</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/don%e2%80%99t-scrap-bbc-introducing-in-wales</link>
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		<title>Job Evaluation mess of Labour-run Bridgend Council</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/job-evaluation-mess-of-labour-run-bridgend-council</link>
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		<title>These comments won&#8217;t help the Welsh media</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/these-comments-wont-help-the-welsh-media</link>
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		<title>Not so great, Auntie</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/not-so-great-auntie</link>
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		<title>Something needs fixing</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/something-needs-fixing</link>
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		<title>Swansea Coastguard silent protest/ Protest distaw Gwylwyr y Glannau Abertawe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the campaign to save Swansea Coastguard Station held a silent protest outside the Mumbles office  as Mike Penning the Tory Shipping Minister visited to speak to staff. Rumour has it that Mr Penning had a separate and private meeting with Tory AMs Suzy Davies and Byron Davies about the proposed closure. If this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/swansea-coastguard-silent-protest-protest-distaw-gwylwyr-y-glannau-abertawe</link>
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		<title>something a bit different&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is my attempt at a poem for the first time in&#8230;years. Its about my car crash that I have written about previously here on this blog. Let me know what you think! &#160; Demon Days I used to love that song, blasting out the lyrics- Me and Damon Albarn live on stage in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/something-a-bit-different</link>
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		<title>Plaid needs to ditch this cult of the individual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE past few weeks has seen a great deal of speculation about the kind of role that Adam Price will play in Plaid Cymru in the future. That he is talented is in little doubt. His recently-released Flotilla Report marks something of a watershed in subjecting some of the claims of Welsh nationalists to academic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/plaid-needs-to-ditch-this-cult-of-the-individual</link>
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