Holly got the call last week that the man she helped put behind bars is now free.

“The Israeli prison guards weren’t full of joy – we were”: Find out what Hannah and I spoke about after she landed 👇

Heno - tonight!! Come down for a relaxing evening of poetry and spoken word. Pay As You Feel tickets available OTD - 7pm for a 7.30 start. See you soon ✨

I've been following our Welsh sailor every step of the way from the Hio sailing boat, to her abduction, imprisonment in Ketziot prison, to her arrival home at Heathrow. I've just gotten off the phone with her from her family home in Liverpool - with a double page spread incoming... 🧵(1/2)

📢Second poet announcement: This Friday we'll be hearing from the Dyfi Valley's own Kaan K, a two-time published author who will be sharing their words (and selling their books!) at Hermit Crab. Make sure to get a ticket on the link below - www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...

Today's update: Families endure silence from their loved ones, as the UK Foreign Office raises "extreme concern" over their detainment at the notorious Ketziot prison.

I was able to speak to this sailor from New Quay, Hannah Schafer, 24 hours before she was seized by Israeli forces. Read her last messages before she was taken here -

Calling Wales and poetry crew: Me and Kaan are finally doing the inevitable - launching a poetry night. Come down to Spitting Ink/ Poeri Inc next Friday 10 October for new voices on the open mic and two incredible feature poets. Tickets are Pay As You Feel- www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...

Did you know the first Women's Institute was founded in Anglesey in 1915 to encourage more women to get involved in growing food during WWI?

Accessing pain and symptom relief is harder in a rural area - this is what makes an assisted dying law appealing to one interviewee I talked to... (1/2)

Yesterday I visited the beach where this man went missing. Leaving the car on a stormy February evening, he just didn't come back. The family drive from Rhayadar every week to look for signs of him, share missing posters, check homeless shelters, anything to tell them what happened to Ashley.

🐣Yes, I got to visit baby seagulls for this piece and yes, some days I love my job. Read/ watch the video about the one woman single-handedly trying to save mid-Wales' poorly seagulls 👇

🐱It's a hard job but someone's got to do it 📖

It's telling the number of people who didn't want me to write this story - the comments on the Cambrian News FB post show it's ruffled some feathers. Read my exposé on an eternal bar contract the council can't get out of and a guy paying exclusive mates rates for use of a community-owned asset 👇

📖When was the last time you spent money in an independent bookshop? Meet the booksellers thriving despite or maybe precisely because of their rural locations, in my feature for National Independent Bookshop Week 👇 #independentbookshopweek

🌷This is a lovely story about a couple who restored a piece of unloved, low-performing farmland into a wetland bog, a broadleaf woodland and wild flower meadows that rare native orchids call home.🌾The 25 acres are yours to explore as one of only three pitches allowed on the site at any one time.

👀Is it a pro or a con to live in a small village whilst losing your sight? I spoke to people experiencing just that to find out 👇

EXCLUSIVE: Being trusted to tell someone’s story accurately and sensitively is a huge responsibility and honour, especially when they trust you to the point of waiving their lifelong legal right to anonymity to share their story and get justice. 🧵1/3 [Holly's story out today 👇]

I've been a bit MIA on here but here's why 👇 The wonderful, small, talented poetry group I'm a part of in Mach, QUEEPO (the Machynlleth Queer Poetry Collective) was booked for not one but TWO gigs in the last month. Here are some handsome snaps of us closing Friday of the #AberystwythPoetryFestival

🌈At the second-ever Machynlleth LGBTQ+ Pride, love was well and truly in the air. It's both fun and difficult to write about the community you're part of - it's hard to capture just how wonderful a community Machynlleth truly is. See if you can spot the magic in the video on the link below 👇

💩Seven weeks ago I wrote about water companies blaming the heavy rain for pouring sewage into our rivers, making mid-Wales arguably the poopiest place in England and Wales. 💧Last week I wrote the opposite - speaking to farmers and nature conservationists trying to keep their land from drying out.

💩 How many times do you think I can get *crap* in a headline? Despite spending last week writing about 💩 I actually enjoyed myself- speaking to locals working to tackle Ceredigion's great 💩 crisis and the increasingly inventive and green 🌱 ways to address the problems with the way the UK poops.

📞I had the privilege of speaking to Ashley's mum about how their family are doing five weeks in and her countless trips back to Borth to search for any sign of where he's gone. Please share 👇

🤗"It's like a warm hug" - you can tell how much I enjoyed attending this group and talking to these women from the write-up. 👀Watch the full video and read the story on this link 👇 OR better yet - in this week's newspaper in your favourite newsagents until 25 March. 🗞️

📸During her visit to Lampeter last week I got to sit down with First Minister for Wales @prifweinidog.gov.wales Eluned Morgan and put your questions to her. ✂️I asked her about the proposed school cuts across Ceredigion, Machynlleth's leisure centre being earmarked for closure... 🧵1/3

💨The activists used his research looking into mechanisms to deter seawater erosion in off-shore wind farms to argue that on-shore wind farms are polluting... 👇

🚽Never in my life have I written so much about toilets... until I came to Machynlleth. I've never seen a group of people work so hard after two years and a surprising amount of stress to reopen some bogs... (1/3) 🧵

📖“It’s what the world needs right now, that’s been our driver for the book." Read the story of three friends who saved a bankrupt quarry house - the trio have now published a book on what they see as a "real alternative" to commercial business or charity - a social enterprise 👇

🐮If you can look past the awful headline... this sort of thing is so lovely to be able to report on in the news world of doom and gloom. In an area where so often the rhetoric is around decline, brain drains, underfunding - here the communities are taking things into their own hands.... (1/3)🧵

🔬In the context of polarised discourse, a huge need to invest in renewable energy and the demand placed on Wales' natural resources to do this, we need to be more careful than ever with how we interpret what the science is telling us. What are your thoughts on wind farm expansion?💨

🎥Watch: elderly farming couple say 'if only I could die now' to save their children worrying about the farming inheritance tax, being introduced in 2026. @cambriannews.bsky.social

🏦Last week I chased your @plaidcymru.bsky.social and @welshlabour.bsky.social MPs around Westminster to find out what they're doing with your vote 🎥Watch the story below to find out 👇 @benlake.bsky.social @lsrplaid.bsky.social @stevewitherdenmp.bsky.social

🚲One of the top stories last week was this - I spoke to the mother of an ex-marine who almost lost his life when his bike collided with a 4x4 on a country lane. Eighteen months later, the driver is acquitted on all charges and the family is left reeling from the consequences and trauma...

🎥 Watch the highlights of the first public meeting against the proposals to downgrade stroke services in Bronglais. Bronglais bosses spoke alongside with MP @benlake.bsky.social MS @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social and Elin Jones 👇

🏛️WASPI compensation, inheritance tax, the assisted dying bill, devolving the Crown Estate - it's a busy time for @plaidcymru.bsky.social Westminster Leader @lsrplaid.bsky.social. Here's me interviewing her at Westminster Hall on what she's doing for Gwynedd residents. Video feature coming soon.📽

🏦This week I'm in Westminster to see what our @plaidcymru.bsky.social and @welshlabour.bsky.social MP's do for their constituents back home. Watch this space for a feature on what they're up to and some video of them in action! 📽

⏰A year ago my first Cambrian News story was about the appalling cancer treatment wait times in Wales. One year on, things have gotten worse 👇 www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/health/...

Hey everyone! 👋 On Tues I got to attend my first ever awards night for the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards after being shortlisted for Young Journo of the Year. I didn't win but was in great company in my category and was astounded to be part of such a talented cohort. Onto the next! ✨