2023 in Wales

Events from the year 2023 in Wales.

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Events

January

February
  • 14 February –
    • All major road building projects in Wales, including the proposed Third Menai Crossing, are scrapped amid concerns about the environment.[15]
    • The BBC Welsh Service (now BBC Cymru Wales) marks the 100th anniversary of the BBC's first broadcast in Wales.[16]
  • 16 February – The funeral of Clare Drakeford is held in Cardiff, and attended by senior politicians.[17]
    • The Wales government announces new additional Election reforms for the Next Senedd election such as Candidates must be resident in Wales.[18]
  • 20 February – Three days of strikes involving almost half of ambulance workers in Wales begin, with members of the GMB union walking out on 20 February, and members of the Unite union walking out on 21 and 22 February.[19]
  • 21 February – Ambulance workers belonging to the Unite union call two strikes for 6 and 10 March.[20]
  • 22 February – The NASUWT teaching union rejects a revised pay offer from the Welsh Government.[21]
  • 23 February – The National Health Service in Wales misses its first post-COVID target for reducing the backlog of outpatients waiting for an appointment, with 75,000 people waiting for a year or more when there should be none.[22]
  • 24 February –
    • Devil's Gulch, a popular walking spot in the Elan Valley, is reopened to the public five years after it was closed following a rockfall.[23]
    • An earthquake measuring 3.7 magnitude strikes Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent at 11.59pm.[24]

March
  • 3 March
    • The Unite and GMB unions call off a planned strike by the Welsh Ambulance Service scheduled for Monday 6 March after "significant progress" in talks with the Welsh Government.[25]
    • The final of the Cân i Gymru (Song for Wales) 2023 competition is won by Dylan Morris, with the song "Patagonia".[26]
  • 6 March – Three people are found dead nearly two days after being reported missing, after their car is spotted by a police helicopter, having crashed into trees in the outskirts of Cardiff. Two survivors are taken to hospital in a critical condition.[27][28]
  • 8 March –
    • Members of the Welsh Ambulance Service belonging to the Unite union call off a strike scheduled for Friday 10 March following "progress" with officials from the Welsh Government.[29]
    • In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the UK, the widow of a nurse who died as a result of COVID-19 is to sue the National Health Service in Wales. Linda Roberts, the widow of Gareth Roberts, who had Type 2 diabetes, plans the legal action after a coroner found that he died as a result of "industrial disease".[30]
  • 10 March – Members of the National Education Union in Wales call off two strikes planned for 15 and 16 March after receiving a new pay offer from the Welsh Government.[31]
  • 13 March – A man is killed in a gas explosion at a house in Morriston area of Swansea.[32] He is subsequently identified as a 68-year-old pensioner.[33]
  • 16 March – The Welsh Government bans the TikTok app from all its official devices amid concerns about its security.[34]
  • 23 March – Members of the National Education Union vote to accept a pay offer from the Welsh Government worth 8%, ending their industrial dispute.[35]
  • 26 March – Welsh rugby clubs vote for major governance changes to the Welsh Rugby Union board following an extraordinary general meeting at their headquarters in Port Talbot.[36]

April

May
  • 2 May
    • South Wales Police confirm that human remains found in secluded woodland in Swansea are those of Russell Scozzi, who disappeared in 2002.[46]
    • An independent investigation is launched after the broadcasting union BECTU makes allegations of "bullying and a toxic culture" at Welsh-language TV channel S4C.[47]
  • 3 May – An independent review into the internal culture of Plaid Cymru identifies several issues within the party, and concludes that it needs to "detoxify a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny".[48]
  • 4 May
    • Education Minister Jeremy Miles says he will write to the UK government to remind them to accurately translate into the Welsh language after a Welsh language citizen's oath asked people to curse at God.[49]
    • Senedd presiding officer Elin Jones confirms she will not be attending the coronation of Charles III because "as a republican" it is "for others to celebrate a coronation".[50]
  • 7 May – Leaked text message conversations obtained by the BBC show members of Plaid Cymru discussed whether the party's leader, Adam Price, was fit for office in November 2022, and debated whether he should be removed from the post.[51]
  • 10 May – Adam Price announces his resignation as leader of Plaid Cymru after a report found a culture of misogyny, harassment and bullying in the party.[52]
  • 11 May – Llyr Gruffydd is appointed interim leader of Plaid Cymru following the resignation of Adam Price.[53]
  • 12 May – NHS workers belonging to the Unison trade union vote to accept a 5% pay increase from the Welsh Government along with a one-off payment worth between £900 and £1,190.[54]
  • 18 May – Data released by NHS Wales shows that 30,000 people have been waiting for more than two years for hospital treatment after being referred.[55]
  • 19 May – The Court of Appeal increases the prison sentences of two parents who were previously sentenced for neglecting their 16-year-old morbidly obese daughter, who died in squalor in October 2020.[56]
  • 20 May – Two European monarchs, King Felipe VI of Spain and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, accompanied by their wives, Queen Letizia and Queen Máxima, attend a students' awards ceremony at Atlantic College in the Vale of Glamorgan, at which their daughters, Leonor, Princess of Asturias, and Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, receive certificates.[57]
  • 23 May – A riot takes place in Cardiff after news of the deaths of two teenagers on an electric bike is published on social media.[58] The following day, after the discovery of video evidence, South Wales Police admit that they had been following the boys earlier but deny any involvement in the crash. The force refers itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct for investigation.[59]
  • 25 May
    • Nine people were arrested for participating in the Ely riot, police confirm.[60]
    • Bablin Molik becomes the first woman of colour to be appointed as Lord Mayor of Cardiff.[61]
    • Welsh Water customers will receive a £10 rebate following an Ofwat ruling over the publication of incorrect data relating to leaks and usage.[62]

June
  • 1 June – Labour MP Geraint Davies is suspended by the part following accusations of sexual harassment.[63]
  • 7 June – Labour MP and frontbencher Gerald Jones wins his party's selection to become the Labour candidate for the new parliamentary seat of Merthyr Tydfil and Upper Cynon, which will be contested at the next UK general election.[64] The seat was ultimately renamed Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare in the final recommendations.[65]
  • 8 June – Plans are approved for a 35-storey tower block in Cardiff that will become Wales's tallest building. The structure in the city's Wood Street will be 113m (371ft) tall, overtaking The Tower building in Swansea, which is 107m (351ft).[66]
  • 9 June
    • The Welsh Government announces plans to launch a consultation on the introduction of rent controls for private tenants.[67]
    • Rhun ap Iorwerth is set to become the next leader of Plaid Cymru after the final two candidates seen as potential rivals in the party's leadership race, Sian Gwenllian and Sioned Williams, issue a joint statement ruling themselves out of the contest.[68]
  • 10 June – A parking firm loses a civil case against a motorist over an unpaid £160 fine because it failed to provide the information in Welsh as she had requested.[69]
  • 13 June
    • The Independent Office for Police Conduct announces that gross misconduct notices have been served on the two officers who followed the teenager boys killed in a crash involving an electronic bike prior to the Ely riot.[70]
    • Independent councillor Ieuan Williams stands down as deputy leader of Isle of Anglesey County Council after telling a meeting the previous evening that "all Tories should be shot". Apologising for the comment, Williams says he was "angry and emotional" about poverty at the time.[71]
  • 16 June – Rhun ap Iorwerth is elected unopposed as the new leader of Plaid Cymru.[72]
  • 17 June – Welsh recipients of honours in the King's first Birthday Honours List include Paralympian Pippa Britton (OBE), politician Jane Hutt (CBE) and Professor Medwin Hughes (CBE).[73]
  • 18 June – Heavy rain and thunderstorms causes flash flooding in Wrexham.[74]
  • 26 June – Ryan Reynolds and S4C agree a deal to broadcast Welsh language programmes in the United States on Reynolds's Fubo channel under the banner of Welsh Wednesdays.[75]
  • 27 June – The Welsh Government announce plans to tackle diabetes and obesity by restriction meal deals involving foods high in fat, sugar and salt.[76]
  • 28 June – Ffos-y-Fran in Merthyr Tydfil, the UK's largest opencast mine, has made a last-minute appeal against an order to stop digging for coal.[77]
  • 30 June – A further six arrests have been made in connection with the Ely riot, bringing the total so far to 27.[78]

July

August
  • 2 August – Gwent Police says it is "reviewing" the content of a leaflet sent to constituents by Conservative MP David TC Davies discussing traveller sites in the area.[93] They subsequently announce Davies will face no action over the leaflet.[94]
  • 4 August –
    • Doctors belonging to BMA Cymru reject a 5% pay offer from the Welsh Government, describing it as the "worst offer in the UK".[95]
    • A lawsuit against Welsh language campaigner Toni Schiavone for the non-payment of a parking fine because the ticket was written in English is rejected following a hearing at Aberystwyth Crown Court.[96]
  • 9 August –
    • First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms he will leave the Senedd at the Next Senedd election; he is expected to stand down as First Minister before then.[97]
    • Drakeford asks ministers to make cuts to public services as inflation and public sector pay place constraints on the Welsh Government's budget.[98]
  • 11 August
    • Jay Humphries, the son of First Minister Mark Drakeford, is sentenced to 58 weeks imprisonment for breaching a sex offender's order following his release from prison. Humphries was sentenced to eight and a half years in 2018 following a rape conviction, and breached the order by choosing an unauthorised username on a dating website and deleting his internet browsing history.[99]
    • Alan Llwyd wins the bardic chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales for the third time.[100]
  • 12 August – Nine people are injured, two of them seriously, after a car ploughs into campers and a tent at a campsite in Newgale, Pembrokeshire.[101]
  • 13 August – The UK government decides to retain COVID-19 licencing rules for pubs in England and Wales that allows the sale of takeaway drinks.[102]
  • 16 August – Abi Tierney is appointed as the first female chief executive of the Welsh Rugby Union.[103]
  • 29 August – Monmouthshire county councillor Sara Burch resigns from her cabinet post following a post on Twitter in which she likened the actions of the Secretary of State for Wales to events in the Romani Holocaust after accusing him of "whipping up anti-traveller feeling".[104]

September
  • 1 September – Members of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales vote to accept a 5% pay rise, along with a one-off payment of between £900 and £1,190, ending the nursing strikes in Wales.[105]
  • 3 September – Research published by the Welsh Retail Consortium indicated that one in six shops in Wales are empty.[106]
  • 5 September – One person is killed and ten taken to hospital following a crash between a car and a 52-seater coach at the Cleddau Bridge.[107]
  • 12 September – The Welsh Government urges the UK government to ban the sale of single-use disposable vapes.[108]
  • 15 September –
    • The UK government and Tata Steel reach a deal to keep the Port Talbot Steelworks open. The agreement will see £500m investment from the UK government and £700m from Tata Steel, but could see as many as 3,000 redundancies from the plant.[109]
    • One person is taken to hospital and four others injured after being bitten by a dog during a "disturbance" at a holiday park in Kinmel Bay, Conwy County. Two people are arrested following the incident.[110]
  • 17 September – Wales becomes the first part of the UK to reduce speed limits in built up areas from 30mph to 20mph.[111]
  • 19 September – A petition on the gov.wales website opposing the 20mph speed limit has received over 177,000 signatures since its launch, and will be considered by the Senedd Petitions Committee for debate as it has passed the 10,000 signatures required to be considered for debate.[112]
  • 20 September –
  • 23 September – A petition against the new 20mph speed limit in Wales reaches 400,000 signatures as protestors gather to march against the new law in adrift.[115]
  • 26 September – First Minister Mark Drakeford tells the Senedd he has received threats to his personal safety over Wales's 20mph speed limit, while police confirm they are investigating "reports of malicious communications" sent to Drakeford.[116]
  • 27 September – Flintshire County Council rejects an application by the owners of Northop Hall Country House Hotel to change the purpose of the venue to house 400 male asylum seekers.[117]
  • 30 September – A statue of entertainer Max Boyce, by Rubin Eynon, is unveiled in his home town of Glynneath, in recognition of Boyce's 80th birthday.[118]

October
  • 3 October – Six people have been arrested after two fires were started during protests at the Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, which has been earmarked by the Home Office for use as accommodation for asylum seekers.[119]
  • 4 October – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces £1bn in funding for the electrification of the North Wales Main Line after scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the High Speed 2 rail link.[120]
  • 10 October –
    • Labour suspends Newport City Councilor Miqdad Al-Nuaimi while it investigates posts he made on social media about Israeli security policy in Gaza.[121]
    • Controversial plans to house asylum seekers at Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli are scrapped by the Home Office.[122]
    • Bilingual pop duo Rogue Jones win the 2023 Welsh Music Prize for their album Dos Bebés.[123]
  • 12 October –
    • Senedd Presiding Officer Elin Jones refuses a request from Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies to fly the Flag of Israel outside the Senedd building, saying it should not be flown while both Israelis and Palestinians are suffering.[124]
    • Llinos Griffin-Williams steps down as S4C's chief content officer following allegations of "inappropriate incidents" involving heated exchanges with production staff at a bar in France during the Rugby World Cup match between Wales and Georgia.[125] S4C subsequently confirms she has been dismissed, and it is alleged that during the incidents she told former Wales scrum half Mike Phillips, who is part of the presenting team, that his Welsh skills were not good enough and that she could end his career.[126]
  • 14 October – After setting a target in 2018 that 95% of train journeys in Wales would be made on new trains by 2023, data released by Transport for Wales reveals that on 29% of journeys are being made on new trains due to delays. TfW blames the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors for the delays and says it has revised its target.[127]
  • 17 October –
    • First Minister Mark Drakeford says the Welsh Government has had to make budget cuts across the board to fund the NHS in Wales and rail transport.[128]
    • Wales becomes the first country in the UK to ban the use of snares and glue boards for catching rats.[129]
    • GB News is removed from the internal television system of the Senedd following comments made by Laurence Fox, which a spokesman for the Presiding Officer describes as "deliberately offensive".[130]
  • 19 October –
    • Welsh Water admits illegally spilling untreated sewage at a number of sites after it was presented with a dossier on the issue by BBC News.[131]
    • Data released by NHS Wales indicates NHS waiting lists in Wales have continued to increase, with 760,282 people waiting for treatment, one in five of those waiting for more than a year.[132]
    • Appearing before the Senedd Culture Committee, former Culture Secretary Sir John Whittingdale suggests that Welsh rugby could be added to the list of sporting events that must be available free-to-air on television if the Senedd requested it.[133]
  • 20 October –
    • Cardiff University Students' Union bans anyone wearing blue shirts and chinos – an outfit usually associated with sports clubs – from its Wednesday club night after what it described as "reckless, dangerous and incredibly irresponsible" behaviour by a group of male students dressed in the attire on 4 October.[134]
    • Welsh rapper Ren Gill reaches number one in the UK Album Chart with his second album Sick Boi, an account of chronic illness that has left him unable to perform on stage.[135]
  • 21 October – Natural Resources Wales (NRW) issues a "danger to life" flood warning for Llandrinio in Powys, where the Rivers Severn and Vyrnwy meet.[136]
  • 22 October –
  • 25 October – Lewis Edwards, a former officer with South Wales Police who groomed 210 underage girls using social media and blackmailed them into sending him indecent photographs, is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 12 years.[139]

Arts and literature

National Eisteddfod of Wales

Albums

Opera
  • Blaze of Glory!, an opera by David Hackbridge Johnson, with libretto by Emma Jenkins, is premiered by Welsh National Opera, starring Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Themba Mvula and Rebecca Evans.[147]

Broadcasting
  • 8 February – S4C wins the "Best Multi-Channel Programme" Award at the Broadcast Awards 2023 for Fi, Rhyw ac Anabledd.[148]

English language radio

English language television

Welsh language radio
  • 25 July – Presenter Mari Grug shares information about her recent breast cancer diagnosis with listeners to Dros Frecwast.[155]

Welsh language television
  • Dal y Mellt/Rough Cut[156]
  • Drych: Y Dyn yn y Van[157]

Sport

January

February

March

April

June

July

August

Deaths
Tyrone O'Sullivan
Ann Clwyd

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