#BBCNews - Lyse Doucet: In Tehran, rallies for Iran's revolution overshadowed by discontent and defiance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Plaid have gained a seat on Pembrokeshire council via a council by-election in Fishguard North East. It had been won by Labour at the election in 2022

Focus in the Senedd & Welsh politics today will be on FMQs, where if the opposition doesn't challenge the FM on her stance on the UK Labour leadership I'd be very surprised. Starts at 1330.

Former Tory MS James Evans, in Senedd debate on NHS where Tories are calling for a health emergency to be declared, says he didn't know what that meant in the 12 months he was a health spokesman.

Get off Netflix and go to the pub if want to save them, Eluned Morgan told FMQs in the Senedd today, as she came under fire over business rates www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour MS Alun Davies says there is no perfect time for the Senedd to vote on assisted dying, telling BBC Radio Wales that it might be too late to wait until the next term. He says the consequences of voting (like how assisted dying would happen in Wales) are still not known

Tories promising grandparents £4.8k to help with childcare in an election pledge announced today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What would you do if your home was destroyed? For many Ukrainians in Scotland, that's the situation they find themselves in. Amid peace deal talks, will they have a choice about staying or returning? Our latest story across BBC Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On national radio the first minister Eluned Morgan repeatedly refused to offer support to the prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, telling voters the May election is not a time for a protest vote against his government www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I'm sure people are waiting with baited breath to read all parties manifestos - I particularly encourage that if you struggle with insomnia" - Sam Rowlands, who is the Welsh Tory policy director, on Radio Wales

Eluned Morgan took flack from all sides in the Senedd today over her speech calling for more devolution to stop pro-indy parties taking control of the Senedd

It was on Thursday that the first minister called again for policing to be devolved and on Monday that the home secretary rejected it

BBC: Leicestershire and Rutland's police and crime commissioner (PCC) is facing a complaint that he asked a police officer to help him organise an election campaign photo with a horse in reference to Vladimir Putin's famous topless photoshoot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The only thing Reform have said about James Evans all day: Farage denying a tweet claiming he spoke to the now ex Tory MS tonight about joining the party. Begs the question what exactly is going on

On Monday, Conservative MS James Evans did something a bit odd. Eagle eyed viewers of his Facebook page noticed that, at 1.16pm, he removed the words "Welsh Conservatives" from a post attacking Labour and Plaid Cymru.

This is good fun. Choose your ABC (Australia) clock, tweak the interference, ghosting etc. You can even choose when to have the pips. @dirtyfeed.org @matt.cymru @aldupres.bsky.social mubd.net.au/tv-history/a...

During a speech in Tehran today, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that "several thousand people were killed" during the recent protests by those he described as "seditionists", confirming for the first time that the death toll from the protests is in the thousands.

Robert Jenrick joins Reform UK More on BBC News ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership. She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform

We headed to the Bargoed elections office on a wet and windy morning this week to see how the parties spent their money in the Caerphilly by-election campaign Labour spent double the victors Plaid, at roughly £27 per eventual vote. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ITV Wales/YouGov/Cardiff University polling is suggesting a rewiring of Welsh politics in its latest poll. Labour have won every domestic parliamentary election in Wales since the 1920s. This has them in fourth, level pegging with the Tories. Plaid first, Reform second, Greens third

The Welsh government's attempt to stop lying in politics has gone down extremely badly with some Senedd committees, including some Labour MSs, who have issued withering warnings about bad law and unintended consequences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru reach Welsh government budget deal, say sources to me and Emilia Belli

WLGA didn't push back on this from the Auditor General, warning that up to two councils could go bust in Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excuse the the Disney reference (let it go etc)... WGC bods here saying freezing the thresholds will leave the Welsh budget with more money than expected

The Greyhound racing industry is getting a chance to challenge the ban in Wales in the courts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The opposition to Welsh Labour in the Senedd has won a vote for the first time since the Caerphilly by-election www.bbc.com/news/article...

45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.

Didn't you just switch it off

Lindsay Whittle MS, being sworn in by the Clerk of the Senedd and chief executive, Manon Antoniazzi (📸: Senedd Cymru)

Plaid's Caerphilly by-election campaign always felt a question of whether it could pull off the victory you could see available in the numbers. PC had a block of about 8,000 voters, and local knowledge from its council base - could they get Labour voters to switch over?

Bernard Gentry is out as Welsh Tory chair after a year. Asked if he was forced out by senior party figures, he told me: "Some people might say that. You won't hear me saying that."

The Welsh government started talking about the budget on Monday in apocalyptic terms, raising the spectre of mass redundancies because of statutory cuts if it cannot get a deal. It has ended Tuesday with both big Senedd opposition parties ready to talk

Nathan Gill was at the forefront of the Brexit push in Wales in the mid 2010s. He's now admitted that he spent part of the tail end of his career taking bribes from a pro Russian politician in Ukraine to say things for him in the European parliament, and elsewhere www.bbc.com/news/article...

There's a major Welsh by-election happening in Caerphilly next month. The prime minister is unsure if he will campaign in it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The campaign has begun Labour's Eluned Morgan says her party would find it 'tricky' to pass a budget if it lost the Caerphilly election, warning of cuts as a result www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A pallbearer for Hefin David's funeral was among those in Caerphilly constituency who received a mail out from Reform on the day of the service

Senedd by-election on October 23 in Caerphilly, Senedd presiding officer announces

A big part of the ambitious 2016 Senedd intake, Hefin David was keen to make an impact. The Caerphilly MS was an independent voice in the Labour group who banged the drum for the causes he most cared about, autism among them.

The speculation was: UAE, Saudi, Qatar, Turkey, Switzerland, or the Vatican The reality is: USA Wasn't expecting that. Trump-Putin summit in Alaska next Friday.

A source gets in touch with the Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg Labour shortlist Bearing in mind Sarah Murphy is the incumbent Others: Helen Mary Payne Camilla Beaven Huw John David OBE Jonathan Simon Cox OBE Neelo Farr William Rhys Goode Carys Stallard

The Caerdydd Penarth Labour shortlist in no particular order Helen Gunter Huw Thomas Laura Rochefort Kanaya Singh Ruba Sivagnanam Mutale Merrill Stephen Brooks Peter Bradbury

My piece for BBC Wales Today on efforts to raise £40,000 to carry out more work and secure the future of Garth Pier in Bangor.

Before the row came into the open over the Labour Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf selection I heard of rumours that ministers were involved in a row over whether a candidate was ruled out of order Sources have since told me that the first minister had stepped in on that candidate's behalf

Eluned Morgan has publicly backed Owain Williams, a Labour member at the centre of a selection row in Cardiff www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The FM has put her name to the statement on Gaza issued by a spox earlier

Gaza, Plaid's line from Liz Saville Roberts: “Recognition of a Palestinian state should not be conditional on the actions of the Israeli government. The right to self-determination belongs to the Palestinian people, not to an occupying power.

Gaza line from Welsh gov: “We strongly welcome today’s statements by the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary. The situation and suffering in Gaza is intolerable.

We've been leading the Wales index today with the latest in the Gilestone saga After ospreys were found there, the site bought by taxpayers for millions to help the Green Man business out lost £500,000 in value www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Former PCS chief Mark Serwotka was on Radio Wales Breakfast on Friday talking about the new party being set up with Corbyn Asked Re: whether they would stand Senedd members, he essentially told the radio station it had not been decided, although he indicated he would like to