Wales

NO. They have all now been closed

Scotland and Wales are part of the United Kingdom along with England and Northern Ireland. Their status is similar to individual states within the United States.

Its filmed in a few places, the funeral parlour is in llanbradach, Stella's house is in tylorstown, the curry buffet in episode 1 was the Non-Pol in Tonyrefail (I was in there when filming) and the woman Stella delivers ironing to is also in Tonyrefail

Cardiff has the highest rate of rough sleeping in Wales.

A recent count looking at the issue, the city recorded both the highest number of persons sleeping rough on November 25 (30 persons) and, along with Wrexham , the highest rate at 2.9 rough sleepers per 10,000 households.

The three other authorities with rates above the Wales average of 0.6 per 10,000 households included Bridgend and Caerphilly .

Based on this evidence gathered from various organisations working with homeless people, it is estimated there were 64 people sleeping rough in Cardiff over a two-week period in November 2017, the highest rate in Wales at 6.3 per 10,000 households.

This is as a result of a Welsh emigrant colony that was established there in the late 18th Century by the famous Welsh bard and poet Iolo Morgannwg (pronounced 'Yolo Morganoog'). He led a group of several hundred Welsh pioneers desperate to escape the poverty of their native land, but to a new country that was not embroiled in war as the USA was with England at the time. The emigrants chartered a number of sailing vessels and landed in Southern Argentina about 3 weeks after setting off from Newport in South Wales- over the following decades, several thousand more Welsh settlers went out to join them.

The new arrivals established good relationships with the native Pueblo Indians and Hispanics, intermarrying and introducing them to Welsh culture, language, sport and literature. This is why to this very day, Patagonia still has many Welsh speakers, and several towns & districts with Welsh names.

The Welsh-language word for Wales is Cymru.

Wales has a devolved Parliament called the Senedd, which has 60 members and is presided over by a First Minister. It holds elections every 5 years.

The Senedd has complete autonomy over the areas of transport, housing, health, education, local Government, the environment and several other aspects of Government. However, it's powers over energy policy are limited, and it has no power over policing, criminal justice, or taxation (although the latter is set to change soon, with these being devolved to the same level as they are in Scotland).

A recent report called the Silk Commission has recommended that policing powers be devolved to Wales, which will in turn necessitate Wales having it's own justice system too. However, at present these are controlled by central Government in London.

The political parties in Wales are Labour, the Conservatives, the Welsh Nationalist Party Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats, and several independent political candidates. Wales is currently governed by a minority Labour government, which has to rely upon support from either Plaid Cymru or the Liberal Democrats to pass any legislation.

UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, has a tiny representation, but it's following within Welsh government is marginal because one of it's policies if elected to power in London would be to abolish the Welsh Parliament, which virtually no Welsh people want now.

Wales has four members of the European Parliament- one Labour, one Plaid Cymru, one Conservative, and one UKIP, although the latter was elected as a 'protest vote' before most people understood what UKIP would do to Wales if elected to power in Westminster. He will probably lose his seat at the next European Elections.

There is no place name in Wales that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet.

You are probably thinking of the longest place name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf

Wales is in the northern hemisphere.

All around wales searching for people who wanted to go and fight in the middle east for the crusades

Anglesey is approximately 20 miles by 20 miles giving it an approximate area of 400 square miles.

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It obviously depends on... where in Dorset you start from, where in Wales you are going, what route you take and how fast you drive.

There are three National Parks in Wales covering an area of 4122 sq km. This represents approximately 20% of the land area of Wales. Snowdonia was designated in 1951 followed by Pembrokeshire Coast in 1952 and Brecon Beacons in 1957.

Some sharks do exist off the Welsh coast, but as a rule they are harmless and not dangerous to humans.

The most common sort is the Basking Shark, a plankton-feeder that has no interest in people, and the Porbeagle Shark, which although predatory upon smaller fish, is not dangerous. There have been rare occasions when dangerous sharks HAVE appeared off Wales and attacked swimmers and scuba-divers, but this is extremely unusual- in such cases, the fish concerned have usually been small packs of Tiger Sharks that have strayed into Northern waters and the events are so rare that when they occur, they usually make the news.

In general, the waters off Wales are much too cold for the more dangerous type of shark to inhabit. A juvenile Great White got stuck in Cardigan Island Sound in the Summer of 1976 and had to be rescued, but the Summer of '76 was abnormally hot and may have served to warm the seas around the British Isles to such an extent that fish used to warmer waters may have been tempted to stray Northwards in search of food- barracuda and marlin were also reported to have been seen around the British Isles at the same time, which is almost unheared of.

Obviously, there's Saint Davids Day, which is celebrated on the 1st of March. Other than that, everything is the same as England.

The Population Of Wales Is 2,903,085!!

Wales has not been politically independent since 1282, when it was conquered by King Edward I of England.The Welsh language is not actually Gaelic.

Wales isn’t represented on the British Flag.

A Welshman invented Lawn Tennis.

Canada was explored and mapped by a Welshman.

The automobile was invented by a Welshman.

The New York Times was founded by a Welshman.

The earth's highest mountain is named after a Welshman.(Everest)

The world's biggest second-hand bookshop is in Wales.USK

Britain has no Death Penalty, because of Welshman who was hanged for murder.

Tre'r Ceiri is the largest Iron-Age fort in northwestern Europe.

The world's longest railroad station name is in Wales. -Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.

Wales is the most important sheep raising area in Europe.

The last British person to die in World War One was a Welshman.

Welsh prisons were training grounds for the IRA (Irish Republican Army).

Welsh gypsies were the last speak Romani in Europe.

A pungent vegetable ( A Leek) is the national emblem of Wales.

The world's first wireless transmission took place in Wales.

Wellington had guns and cannon balls where cast in the largest Iron making plant in the world situated in Merthyr Tydfil

The River Usk in Wales has the second highest tidal rise and fall in the World.

The smallest City in the UK is in St David's on the Pembrokeshire coast. (population 1484 - Census 1991)

Wales land mass is 8016 square miles. Coastline 746 miles long.

Comedian Bob Hope's parents were married in Cardiff.

Millenium Stadium Cardiff has the largest retractable roof of any sports arena in the World.

Pryce Jones from Newtown Montgomeryshire created the first Mail Order business in the World. Delivering to a predominantly remote rural customer base in the hills and valleys of Wales.

The letters K, Q, V and Z do not appear in the Welsh alphabet

Welsh explorer David Thompson mapped 20% of the North American Continent, surveying the Canada/US border from East to West in the 1800's.

Al Capone's chief lieutenant, known as "Murray the Hump" was one of the most successful criminals in US history. He was born in Chicago of Welsh parents from Llandidloes

Until the 1980′s, Wales was one of the main exporters of coal

Road signs in Wales are usually written in both Welsh and English

St. David is the patron saint of Wales. He was a monk who lived on bread, water, herbs and leeks and died on March 1, 589 A. D.

The leek had been recognised as the emblem of Wales since the middle of the 16th century. Its association with Wales can in fact be traced back to the battle of Heathfield in 633 AD, when St. David persuaded his countrymen to distinguish themselves from their Saxon foes by wearing a leek in their caps.

As a result of the concerns raised by the Aberfan disaster, and in line with Finding XVII of the Davies Report, in 1969 the British Government passed new legislation to remedy the absence of laws and regulations governing mine and quarry waste tips and spoil heaps. This was The Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969. was designed "to make further provision in relation to tips associated with mines and quarries; to prevent disused tips constituting a danger to members of the public; and for purposes connected with those matters".

In addition because of the lack of a co ordinated approach by police, army and rescue teams government set up a protocol to ensure that in future should any emergency occur that required an "all agencies involvement" that processes and procedures were already mapped out as a contingency. This protocol has its been claimed be adopted in 100 countries to date.

Welsh emerged in the 6th Century CE from a language called Brittonic.

It is classed as such, due to the fact that it is a part of the United Kingdom which has the Royal Family as heads of state. The title 'Prince of Wales' is held by the monarch's eldest son and heir to the throne.

Pretty much the same things that you can grow in England, Scotland, Ireland or the rest of northern Europe.

No and yes. It isn't, because it is a principality and a region of the UK, but it is because England is also considered a country.