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Wales Election: New Constituencies, Voting Changes

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Wales prepares for a significant Senedd election on May 7th, with sixteen new constituencies and a potential increase in politicians from sixty to ninety-six. The changes aim for a fairer, more proportional setup, with voter registration deadlines and election day details announced. The first Your Voice Live event in Haverfordwest features Welsh Conservative, Lib Dem, and Plaid leaders answering public questions.

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0:00On April 8th, a 21-year-old supermarket worker named Alfie Coleman got nabbed by MI5 in a Morrison's car park while trying to buy a pistol and ammo for a terrorist plot. This went down in 2023 after he spent months chatting online with folks he thought were fellow extremists. Turns out they were undercover agents who set up the whole sting, leading to his arrest by counter-terror cops right after he grabbed the weapon. Coleman, from great knotly in Essex, denies charges of prepping terrorist acts. Prosecutors paint him as a far-right militant accelerationist dead set on sparking a race war. He'd been deep in that world since age 17, hunting for weapons like knives sold online. Cops bound four knives in his bedroom, plus downloads on his phone like the anarchist cookbook for making bombs and a manifesto from Dylan Roof, the guy behind the 2015 South Carolina Church shooting that killed nine. He'd already pled guilty to grabbing an illegal manual on building a submachine gun. Back

1:04in July 2021, before turning 18, he emailed a group called Patriotic Alternative as a proud white European ready for activism. He even jotted a plan called Collapse on his phone, targeting the mayor of London's house with an explosive recipe and kept a list of so-called race traders, including a co-worker. The old Bailey Trial rolls on, laying out how this quiet Tesco guy was boiling with racist hate underneath, all aimed at real violence with that gun. He never got.

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