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Events from the year 2025 in Wales.

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Events

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January

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  • 1 January
    • The Met Office issues a yellow weather warning for snow in Wales for the weekend of 4–5 January.[7]
    • The mystery runner at the Nos Galan race is revealed as boxer Lauren Price.[8]
    • The Welsh Ambulance Service officially declares the end of a "critical incident" that began on 30 December.[9]
  • 6 January – The UK bank accounts of Daniel Andreas San Diego, one of the United States' most wanted fugitives who was arrested in Wales after 21 years on the run, are frozen for 12 months following a hearing at Llandudno Magistrates' Court.[10]
  • 7 January
  • 8 January – Proposals are published to give Members of the Senedd a 6% pay rise, taking the wages for a backbench MS to £76,380 in 2025–26, up from £72,057.[13]
  • 9 January – James Howells loses his attempt to sue Newport Council to make them recover a Bitcoin hard drive estimated to be worth about £598m from a rubbish tip.[14]
  • 10 January
    • The actor Michael Sheen announces he is to fund a new theatre company, the Welsh National Theatre, to replace the National Theatre Wales, which folded in 2024.[15]
    • Le Pub, a music venue in Newport which was threatened with closure, has been bought by a community enterprise, Music Venue Properties (MVP), which aims to protect live music locations.[16]
  • 11 January – The death is reported of Leon Adams, who spent two years in a coma and was left paralysed and brain damaged following an attack in Cardiff on 14 February 2002.[17]
  • 14 January – Welsh Conservative leader Darren Millar accuses Senedd Presiding Officer Elin Jones of "inappropriately interrupting him" after she tells him to "tone down" a question about grooming gangs while he called for a fresh inquiry into child sexual abuse.[18]
  • 15 January – A burst water pipe at Dolgarrog, Conwy county causes disruption, leading to the closure of schools and businesses. Around 40,000 properties are reported to be affected by the incident, with many remaining without water for several days despite supplies being restored.[19]
  • 16 January – Holyhead Port partially reopens following damage caused by Storm Darragh in December 2024.[20][21]
  • 17 January – An estimated 40,000 homes remain without water following a burst water pipe at Dolgarrog, Conwy county. Welsh Water says that although the pipe has been repaired, a water supply will not be fully restored for "up to 48 hours".[22]
  • 18 January – Welsh Water confirms that 40% of customers affected by a recent pipe burst have had their water restored, but some may have to wait until the next day for it to be fully restored.[23]
  • 19 January – Seven outdoor educational activity centres for schools run by the Inspiring learning Group are to close with immediate effect after the company went into administration.[24]
  • 21 January – First Minister Eluned Morgan tells the Senedd she is lobbying the UK government to give the Welsh Government powers over the Crown Estate in Wales, after a UK government minister suggested otherwise.[25]
  • 22 January – Following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court, Courtney Matthew is found guilty of throwing a cup of excrement at a prison officer while he was a prisoner at HMP Parc in Bridgend.[26]
  • 24 January
    • Dylan Thomas, the grandson of Peter's Pies founder Stanley Thomas, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his friend William Bush, who he stabbed to death on 24 December 2023.[27]
    • First Minister Eluned Morgan warns Wales' health bosses they will not get extra funds for their services unless they cut waiting times.[28]
  • 25 January – A group of seven students are rescued by lifeboat from Worm's Head on the Gower Peninsula after becoming trapped on the tidal island in stormy conditions.[29]
  • 28 January – Cardiff University announces plans to cut 400 full time posts because of a funding shortfall.[30]
  • 29 January – Andrew RT Davies, former leader of the Welsh Conservatives, is warned by Senedd authorities he will face punishment for any future rule breaking after failing to declare his interest as a farmer when asking questions about inheritance tax for farms.[31]
  • 31 January

February

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  • 3 February – A 14-year-old girl who stabbed two teachers and a student at Amman Valley School in Carmarthenshire is found guilty of attempted murder.[34]
  • 4 February – Welsh Conservatives leader Darren Millar and his colleague Russell George miss a Senedd vote on the Eluned Morgan government's budget for 2025–26 because they have travelled to the United States for the annual National Prayer Breakfast.[35]
  • 5 February – The Welsh Conservatives are absent from a Senedd debate concerning their former leader, Andrew RT Davies, but reject allegations they are boycotting the chamber's disciplinary process.[36]
  • 10 February – Darren Millar tells the Senedd he was in the "right place at the right time" as he defends his decision to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in the United States and miss a vote on the Welsh Government's budget. Millar also says he was promoting Welsh interests while in the US.[37]
  • 12 February – St Athan Primary School, in the Vale of Glamorgan, is evacuated following a fire, and will be closed for the rest of the week.[38]
  • 14 February – Network Rail is fined £3.75m after two workers were struck and killed in Port Talbot by a train travelling from Swansea to London in July 2019 following safety failures.[39]
  • 16 February – Whitehead-Ross, a company that was providing retraining for those affected by the redundancies at Tata Steel's Port Talbot site, closes its offices in the town.[40]
  • 17 February – After residents indicated 140 roads where they believed the 30 mph speed limit should be restored, Monmouthshire Council has concluded a review and decided that no roads with a 20 mph speed limit will be reverted.[41]
  • 18 February
  • 19 February – Edmund Burke, Vice Chancellor of Bangor University, confirms that the university is to cut around 200 jobs in order to make £15m of savings.[45]
  • 20 February
    • Welsh Labour and the Welsh Liberal Democrats agree a deal that will see the Liberal Democrats support Labour's 2025–26 budget. This will include a £1 bus fare cap on journeys for those between the ages of 18 and 21, as well as the previously mentioned ban on greyhound racing, and more money for the NHS in Wales and universal childcare.[46] There is also an extra £4.4m for arts and culture.[47]
    • The latest data from NHS Wales shoes there are 800,395 waiting for NHS treatment, a fall of 2,268 since the previous figures were published in January.[48]
    • Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, is charged with offences relating to bribery and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday 24 February.[49]
  • 21 February – Social Justice Secretary Jane Hutt, who is the UK's longest serving minister after service in successive Welsh Governments since 1999, announces she will retire from the Senedd in 2026.[50]
  • 23 February – The Met Office issues an amber weather warning for heavy rain and floods for mid and south west Wales; there are also high guts of wind further inland.[51]
  • 24 February – The UK government rejects a call from Plaid Cymru to devolve responsibility for the Crown Estate in Wales to the Welsh Government, saying it would make no sense to do so.[52]
  • 28 February – Former train manager Nicholas McMurray is sentenced to seven years in prison after he is convicted of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman while checking her train ticket in June 2024.[53]

March

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  • 2 March – Train fares on Transport for Wales services are scheduled to increase, with off peak and day return tickets increasing by 6%, while single tickets increase by 3% and seven-day season tickets by 3.5%.[54]
  • 3 March – Richard Jones is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years for the July 2024 murder of Sophie Evans, his son's partner, who he wrongly believed had scammed him.[55]
  • 4 March
    • The Senedd votes 29–28 to approve the Welsh Government's £26bn budget for 2025–26 after Labour secured the support of Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds to achieve a majority.[56]
    • Oakwood Theme Park, the largest theme park in Wales, announces its closure with immediate effect following a decline in the number of visitors.[57]
  • 7 March
    • Around 80 people are to be made redundant from the Royal Mint in Llantrisant.[58]
    • Cardiff Council confirms that the speed limit on four busy roads in the city will be reverted from 20 mph back to 30 mph.[59]
    • Former Secretary of State for Wales Simon Hart claims that Mark Drakeford, the country's First Minister during the COVID-19 pandemic, "dented people's confidence" in the UK government by claiming successful aspects of the fight against COVID as Welsh Government policy and the unsuccessful as UK government policy.[60]
  • 9 March
    • Police began a murder investigation after a 40-year-old woman, subsequently named as Joanne Penney, is shot dead at a block of flats in Talbot Green. A man is arrested in connection with the incident.[61]
    • Following an unseasonably warm spell of weather, the highest temperature of the year so far is recorded at Hawarden in north Wales, with a high of 18.7 °C.[62]
  • 11 March
  • 12 March
  • 14 March
    • A hearing at the Old Bailey sets a trial date of 29 June 2026 for Nathan Gill, who is accused of accepting bribes to make statements in the European Parliament that would have been beneficial to Russia.[69]
    • At Swansea Crown Court, three men are sentenced to eight years and one month in prison after pleading guilty to the attempted kidnapping of Israeli record producer Itay Kashti, who was lured to an isolated farm by the three, who posed as representatives of Polydor Records.[70]
  • 15 March – South Wales Police confirm that five people have been charged in connection with the death of Joanne Penney; four have been charged with murder and a fifth with assisting an offender.[71]
  • 17 March – South Wales Police launch a murder investigation following the disappearance of Charlene Hobbs, a 36-year-old woman from Cardiff, who was last seen in the city in July 2024.[72]
  • 18 March – Six people are remanded in custody in connection with the death of Joanne Penney. A plea hearing is set for 7 July, while a trial could take place at the end of October.[73]
  • 21 March –
  • 25 March – An inquest into the death of Joanne Penney hears that she died following a gunshot wound to the chest.[79]
  • 28 March – First Minister Eluned Morgan refuses to give her backing to welfare cuts outlined by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the 2025 spring statement until she has more information about their potential impact, and conforms she has written to Liz Kendall, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to request an impact assessment for Wales.[80]
  • 29 March – Launch of the Black Welsh Music Awards, designed to recognise talented black musicians in Wales.[81]
  • 31 March –
    • The Welsh Government says it will not publish Liz Kendall's response to Eluned Morgan regarding the impact of welfare cuts in Wales.[82]
    • The Welsh Government publishes legislation to bring control of bus services in Wales back under public control, creating a London-style franchised bus service controlled by Transport for Wales.[83]

April

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May

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  • 1 May –
    • A planned strike by staff at Cardiff University is called off after the university said there will be no compulsory redundancies during 2025.[106]
    • The record is broken for Wales's warmest start to May, with 27°C recorded at Cardiff's Bute Park.[107]
  • 2 May – The number of people who have fallen ill following a petting session at a farm in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, rises to 47.[108]
  • 3 May – Hywel Dda University Health Board introduces a new technology that provides pregnant type 1 diabetic women with an artificial pancreas to help regulate their insulin levels.[109]
  • 8 May –
    • First Minister Eluned Morgan sends Wales's congratulations to the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV.[110]
    • The number of people who have fallen ill following an animal petting session at a farm in the Vale of Glamorgan rises to 74.[111]
  • 9 May – Mark Jabalé, 91, Welsh Roman Catholic prelate, bishop coadjutor (2000–2001) and bishop (2001–2008) of Minevia.[112]
  • 13 May – Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says he will not stand in the 2026 Senedd election and has no plans to lead the party in Wales.[113]
  • 14 May – The number of people to fall ill following an animal petting session at a farm in Cowbridge reaches 81.[114]
  • 15 May – Pride Cymru bans the involvement of political parties in its largest pride event in solidarity with the transgender movement.[115]
  • 16 May – Welsh Conservatives leader Darren Millar tells his party's annual conference that the Conservatives may need to work with Plaid Cymru or Reform UK to form a government following the next Senedd election.[116]
  • 17 May – Millar describes Reform UK as a "one-man personality cult" with no serious solution for Wales.[117]
  • 21 May – Data released by Statistics Wales suggests crashes on roads with 20mph and 30mph speed limits are at their lowest since records began.[118]
  • 22 May –
  • 23 May –
    • Corey Gauci is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 24 years for the April 2024 murder of Colin Richards, who was stabbed in the Ely area of Cardiff.[121]
    • A report by Estyn, the education and training inspectorate for Wales, suggests secondary school attendance levels in Wales may not return to pre-pandemic levels for another decade.[122]
    • Police begin an investigation following the death of a 16-year-old boy after a "medical episode" at Barry Island Pleasure Park.[123]
  • 26 May – BBC News reports that Gwynedd Council have made an application for the Grade II listed Corbett Arms Hotel in Tywyn, where John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a holiday as newlyweds in 1969, to be demolished after the building has remained derelict for a decade and parts of it have collapsed.[124]
  • 27 May – Cardiff University backtracks on plans to close its music and modern languages departments.[125]
  • 29 May –
    • Kyle Enos, who sold drugs bought on the dark web as diet pills, when they actually contained poison, is sentenced to three years in prison.[126]
    • Wales has experienced its sunniest spring on record, provisional Met Office indicate, with 648 hours of sunshine between 1 March and 28 May, a figure higher than the UK average of 636.8.[127]
    • Bangor Cathedral has its spending suspended by its local diocese after the discovery of debts worth several thousand pounds.[128]
  • 30 May –
    • An upgrade to the A465 road which began in 2002 is finally completed after 23 years, and at a cost of £2bn.[129]
    • Bangor University is to reconsider cuts to its special collection and archive departments after concerns were raised.[130]

June

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  • 3 June –
    • Denbigh High School is evacuated after "potentially harmful chemicals" were found in a science department store cupboard.[131]
    • Lucy Langmead, a former police administrator with South Wales Police, is sentenced to two years and 11 months in prison for passing confidential information to her drug dealer boyfriend.[132]
  • 5 June – Former workers at a poultry factory in Anglesey are given the go-ahead to proceed with legal action against the factory's parent company over an outbreak of COVID-19 in June 2020.[133]
  • 6 June – Alexander Walker, the youngest member of Rhyl Town Council, is elected as the town's mayor at the age of 25.[134]
  • 9 June –
  • 10 June – Teachers in Wales are offered a 4% pay rise, but unions express their dismay that the offer is below the 4.8% recommended by the Independent Welsh Pay Review Body.[137]
  • 11 June – 2025 Spending Review: Funding for five new railway stations in Cardiff, Newport and Monmouthshire are announced as part of the Spending Review, as well as upgrades to the existing rail network in Wales.[138]
  • 12 June –
  • 13 June – Alexander Dighton, who attempted to murder a police officer with a Molotov cocktail during an incident outside Talbot Green police station in January 2025, is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 22 years by the Old Bailey.[141]
  • 18 June – An inquest is opened and adjourned into the deaths of two sisters who drowned at Snowdonia National Park on 11 June.[142]
  • 19 June –
    • Wales becomes the first part of the UK to ban wet wipes containing plastic after the Senedd votes to make their sale illegal from December 2026.[143]
    • Firefighters tackle a fire in the Conwy Tunnel on the A55 after a vehicle catches fire.[144]
  • 22 June – Former Pembrokeshire councillor Andrew Edwards is disqualified from holding public office for four years over a racist voice note he posted on WhatsApp.[145]
  • 24 June – A report by Arts Council Wales warns that Welsh folk music could be extinct within a generation unless the situation is urgently addressed.[146]
  • 26 June – Protection zones are put in place following the discovery of bird flu at poultry farms in Haverfordwest and Wrexham.[147]
  • 27 June – Andrew John announces his retirement from the post of Archbishop of Wales with immediate effect.[148]
  • 28 June – The Welsh Government announces that smokers and ex-smokers aged between 55 and 74 will be offered screening for lung cancer.[149]

July

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  • 1 July – Dyfed-Powys Police recover the body of Labour Party peer Lord David Lipsey from the River Wye at Glasbury, Powys, after receiving a concerned call about a man swimming in the river the previous day.[150]
  • 2 July – A report by the Senedd Standards Commission finds that First Minister Eluned Morgan failed to declare a donation from the Unite union.[151]
  • 3 July – Student Evan Powell, who in October 2024, broke into the homes of three Swansea women while they slept and watched them sleeping, is sentenced to five years in prison by Swansea Crown Court, together with a further four years on extended licence.[152]
  • 5 July – A new water park is scheduled to open at Cosmeston Country Park in the Vale of Glamorgan.[153]
  • 6 July – BBC News reports that Reform UK would be highly unlikely to introduce an insurance based healthcare system in Wales should it win the 2026 Senedd election, largely because of the timescale and potential legal implications of doing so.[154]
  • 8 July – Members of the Senedd vote to approve a tourism tax for accommodation in Wales that would see a daily fee of £1.30 added to the cost of staying overnight in Wales.[155]
  • 9 July – Secretary of State for Wales Jo Stevens says public services in Wales will not face cuts despite a shortfall in covering a rise in employers' National Insurance contributions. Her comments follow a warning from Welsh Government Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford, who warned Wales was facing a £36m financial black hole.[156]
  • 12 July – 2025 United Kingdom heatwaves: Train services between Pontypridd, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare are cancelled after rail tracks buckle in the heat, affecting concertgoers travelling to a Stereophonics concert in Cardiff.[157]
  • 13 July – Train services continue to be disrupted after heat damage to tracks the previous day.[158]
  • 14 July – Former Conservative MP Jamie Wallis (now known as Katie Wallis after transitioning) is given a fine and a community order for her ex-wife.[159]
  • 15 July –
    • Following a trial at Mold Crown Court, Michael and Kerry Ives are found guilty of the murder of their two-year-old grandson, Ethan Ives-Griffiths, after he suffered "catastrophic" head injuries at their home in Garden City, Flintshire, in August 2021. Ethan's mother, Shannon Ives, is found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a child.[160]
    • ASDA is fined £640,000 for selling a number of out-of-date items, some as much as two weeks past their sell by date, at two of their stores in Cardiff.[161]
  • 16 July –
    • A further two people are charged in connection with the death of Joanne Penney in March.[162]
    • Plaid Cymru says it will hold a Wales-specific inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic if it forms a government after the 2026 Senedd election.[163]
  • 18 July –
  • 19 July –
  • 21 July – Following the publication of a review by the Independent Water Commission, the UK government announces the water regulator Ofwat is to be scrapped, with new separate bodies created for England and Wales to replace it. The Welsh Government must decide whether responsibility should fall to Natural Resources Wales, which regulates Welsh Water over pollution, or if a newly-created body.[169]
  • 22 July – Welsh Conservative member of the Senedd Laura Anne Jones joins Reform UK.[170]
  • 24 July – People in Wales with health conditions that prevent them from eating gluten are to be given debit-style cards preloaded with money to help pay for their food under a new scheme starting later in the year. The scheme replaces the current system where they receive food on prescription from their pharmacy.[171]

Music

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Albums

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Broadcasting

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English language television

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Welsh language television

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Radio

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Sport

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Holidays

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see Public holidays in Wales

Deaths

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Jenny Randerson
Dafydd Elis-Thomas
Mike Peters
Iris Williams

See also

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