Pit to Port

The National Assembly's South Wales Central Regional Committee came to the Rhondda on Friday, and held its meeting in the Heritage Park Hotel. Not my suggestion - in welcoming the Committee I said I would rather they had come to a community facility within the constituency. In opening the meeting, which focused on housing, I used the opportunity to remind the Committee of the long-standing links between the Rhondda and Cardiff Bay - and how Cardiff would still be a sleepy fishing village if it weren't for Rhondda coal. I made a similar point in my inaugural speech when first elected to the National Assembly.

That theme of links between the Rhondda and Cardiff docks is also at the heart of a project which pupils at Porth Community Comprehensive have been involved in, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. I caught up with the project on Friday, and will post further details about it here when they arrive from the school.