The Welsh Assembly's Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee concludes that plans to double the number of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050 carry a "risk that this may have a distortive effect on the delivery of educational priorities as the system is realigned to be able to deliver the language strategy".[18]
22 May – Welsh Labour launches its manifesto with a promise to support the construction of a new
nuclear power station, Wylfa Newydd.[19]
A reshuffle of
Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet results in former leadership rival
Owen Smith, MP for Pontypridd, taking responsibility for Northern Ireland.[24]
16 June – Welsh people honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours list include
Malcolm Walker, co-founder of
the Iceland chain (knighthood) and senior nurse Professor Jean Christine White (CBE).[25]
19 June – Darren Osborne, a 47-year-old
Cardiff resident, is arrested after
driving a van hired from
Pontyclun into a group of Muslim men in Finsbury Park, London, injuring at least ten people.[26]
20 June – Richard Evans, son of the proprietor of Pontyclun Van Hire, is arrested after making offensive remarks on
Facebook about the Finsbury Park incident.[27]
July
13 July – Stephen Hough is convicted of the killing of
Flintshire schoolgirl Janet Commins, 41 years after her death. Noel Jones, an illiterate gypsy boy, had admitted killing Commins and had served half of a 12-year prison sentence, but told the court he had been made a scapegoat by police.[28][29]
22 July –
Michelle Brown, UKIP Assembly member for north Wales, admits and apologises for using a racial slur in a telephone conversation, after her former assistant Nigel Williams released a recording of the call.[31]
2 October – Secretary of State for Wales
Alun Cairns attacks First Minister
Carwyn Jones in a speech, accusing him of being "obsessed with power".[37]
November
3 November – Welsh Assembly minister
Carl Sargeant is suspended by the Labour Party pending an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.[38]
16 November –
Michael Sheen gives the annual
Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture at Merthyr Tydfil.[39] Much later, Sheen will reveal that he returned his OBE before giving the lecture, in order to avoid being hypocritical.[40]
Paul Mealor – Euphonium Concerto, commissioned by the Welsh Proms and premièred by
David Childs (euphonium) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Owain Arwel Hughes at St David's Hall, Cardiff, on 29 July.[48]
The Welsh Assembly's Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee concludes that plans to double the number of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050 carry a "risk that this may have a distortive effect on the delivery of educational priorities as the system is realigned to be able to deliver the language strategy".[18]
22 May – Welsh Labour launches its manifesto with a promise to support the construction of a new
nuclear power station, Wylfa Newydd.[19]
A reshuffle of
Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet results in former leadership rival
Owen Smith, MP for Pontypridd, taking responsibility for Northern Ireland.[24]
16 June – Welsh people honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours list include
Malcolm Walker, co-founder of
the Iceland chain (knighthood) and senior nurse Professor Jean Christine White (CBE).[25]
19 June – Darren Osborne, a 47-year-old
Cardiff resident, is arrested after
driving a van hired from
Pontyclun into a group of Muslim men in Finsbury Park, London, injuring at least ten people.[26]
20 June – Richard Evans, son of the proprietor of Pontyclun Van Hire, is arrested after making offensive remarks on
Facebook about the Finsbury Park incident.[27]
July
13 July – Stephen Hough is convicted of the killing of
Flintshire schoolgirl Janet Commins, 41 years after her death. Noel Jones, an illiterate gypsy boy, had admitted killing Commins and had served half of a 12-year prison sentence, but told the court he had been made a scapegoat by police.[28][29]
22 July –
Michelle Brown, UKIP Assembly member for north Wales, admits and apologises for using a racial slur in a telephone conversation, after her former assistant Nigel Williams released a recording of the call.[31]
2 October – Secretary of State for Wales
Alun Cairns attacks First Minister
Carwyn Jones in a speech, accusing him of being "obsessed with power".[37]
November
3 November – Welsh Assembly minister
Carl Sargeant is suspended by the Labour Party pending an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.[38]
16 November –
Michael Sheen gives the annual
Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture at Merthyr Tydfil.[39] Much later, Sheen will reveal that he returned his OBE before giving the lecture, in order to avoid being hypocritical.[40]
Paul Mealor – Euphonium Concerto, commissioned by the Welsh Proms and premièred by
David Childs (euphonium) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Owain Arwel Hughes at St David's Hall, Cardiff, on 29 July.[48]