NIZI, Congo (AP) — Every day, community health worker Gédéon Banga Ngbape and his team fan out across communities in eastern Congo looking for people who may have crossed paths with the country’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.

The workers investigate dozens of alerts, search for those exposed to suspected or confirmed cases and try to get anyone showing symptoms into care before the virus spreads further.

But the surveillance system is increasingly failing to keep pace with the virus. Between 60% and 70% of new Ebola cases are being detected among people who were not already being monitored as contacts, meaning health workers may only discover infections after patients become sick and have had opportunities to expose others.

“If surveillance does not work well, the entire response suffers,” Ngbape said. “Surveillance is the engine of a response.”

The outbreak has killed over 2,200 people out of more than 4,700 cases, according to the latest government figures. This death toll has been reached almost three times faster than in the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa — the worst in history. That outbreak claimed over 11,000 lives.

“We are chasing the virus; the virus is ahead of us,” said WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, this week.

U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher on Friday announced an additional $30.5 million in emergency funding to help tackle the Ebola outbreak.

Response teams work long hours, often without pay

In Nizi, Ngbape’s surveillance teams say they receive an average of 60 to 70 alerts a day. They move through communities to investigate suspected infections, follow people who have been in contact with suspected or confirmed cases and direct those showing possible symptoms to health facilities.

The work can stretch deep into the night.

“I leave in the morning at 8 and return around 11 p.m., sometimes midnight,” Ngbape said. “I still have to follow up and plan the next activities. I feel really tired, but what matters to me is always being of service to the community.”

He did not say how many days a week he works or how often he is able to take time off.

Community health workers who go door to door face risks of their own. Ana Ndroy Kasime, a community health worker in Nizi, said she visits homes to educate residents about Ebola and reports suspected cases to health officials. But she said workers like her lack basic protective supplies.

The current outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo Ebola virus, is unfolding in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable. There are no approved vaccines or treatments for the Bundibugyo virus, though trials are underway. Strikes by some unpaid health workers, threats by rebel groups, anger from long-traumatized communities and misinformation asserting that Ebola isn’t real have significantly hindered the response.

The gaps are especially consequential in Nizi, one of the most affected health zones in Ituri province, which accounts for about 90% of Congo’s Ebola cases and 80% of its deaths.

“We started surveillance with fewer workers,” Ngbape said. “The challenges are enormous,” he added.

On Thursday, health workers at the Nizi Treatment Center went on strike and the facility temporarily closed. Ngbape said the health workers have not been paid in over three months.

The head of Africa CDC, Jean Kaseya, on Thursday called on Congo’s government to pay the outstanding salaries, saying money was available and that paying workers was the government’s responsibility.

The government says payments are delayed because it’s verifying worker payroll lists after finding unrelated names had been added and while it shifts payments from cash to mobile money.

Kasime said community health workers like her have received their payments, but at about $50 a month, she considers the amount inadequate for the work and risks involved. She said other Ebola response workers should be paid quickly.

“They are making sacrifices and taking risks,” Kasime said. “If these workers decide to stop working, the epidemic will spread further into the population.”

Insecurity and displacement put contacts out of reach

Surveillance workers in Nizi often struggle to get around, making it harder to investigate alerts and follow contacts across the health zone, Ngbape said. Frequent population movements linked to mining and people fleeing armed conflict add another complication, as people can move before surveillance teams are able to follow up with them.

Poor and sometimes impassable roads can also make remote areas difficult to reach, while insecurity restricts where health workers can safely operate. It remains unclear how many communities in the province are currently inaccessible to surveillance teams.

Dozens of rebel and militia groups operate across eastern Congo. The Allied Democratic Forces, which is tied to the Islamic State group, is among those active in Ituri. The insecurity has forced some health and aid workers to leave remote Ebola hot spots for the relative safety of the provincial capital, Bunia.

Violence affecting the Ebola response has also come from residents. At least a dozen attacks on health facilities and workers were recorded as of mid-July, according to local health authorities. In one incident, residents attacked a hospital in Nyakunde and entered a nearby Ebola treatment center, forcing patients and staff to flee before operations resumed the following day.

Many residents’ anger is caused by misinformation about the virus and bans on traditional burials — when families prepare the bodies and people gather for a funeral, which can lead to further infections.

Ngbape, however, said his surveillance teams in Nizi have not been attacked.

He said cooperation has improved as residents have become more familiar with the surveillance teams and their work. Ngbape also said he does not believe people in Nizi are widely concealing suspected infections, though population movements and limited transportation can still make contacts difficult to follow.

For Ngbape, maintaining that surveillance is critical to preventing individual infections from developing into wider chains of transmission. The long hours and limited resources have left him exhausted, he said, but not ready to stop.

“I am here to save the lives of the population,” he said.

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Banchereau reported from Dakar, Senegal.

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Princess Anne, who is celebrating her 76th birthday on Saturday, has never publicly spoken about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, but her comments on the ‘slimmed-down’ monarchy appear to suggest how she really feels

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Princess Anne appeared to make a subtle reference to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle when questioned about the idea of a “slimmed down” monarchy.

The Princess Royal, who is celebrating her 76th birthday on Saturday (August 14), has never commented directly on the couple since their departure from the Royal Family in 2020.

But, during an interview with CBC in 2024, Anne did seem to make a subtle references to the Sussexes with a cutting remark. responsibilities.

She said at the time: “Well, I think the ‘slimmed-down’ (monarchy) was said in a day when there were a few more people around to make that seem like a justifiable comment.

“I mean, it doesn’t sound like a good idea from where I’m standing, I have to say.

“I’m not quite sure what else, you know, we can do.”

While seldom photographed together in public, Princess Anne is believed to have predicted that Meghan would have a “short shelf-life” in the monarchy after she disregarded the experienced royal’s valuable guidance, reports the Express.

Royal expert Neil Sean said of the incident: “According to a very good source Meghan Markle failed to warm to Princess Anne.

“And Princess Anne always knew that Meghan would have a very short shelf-life in the world of the British monarchy.

“Apparently, when Meghan Markle joined the Royal Family, she sought out Princess Anne. According to a very good source, Princess Anne gave very sage advice to the new royal.

“Princess Anne reiterated this mantra, she pointed out that it wasn’t a working monarchy, it was a job, you turn up on time, you do your research, and do the duty.

“It’s all about the project at hand. She also pointed out that whatever charities you are involved in you, you needed to get involved and get immersed.”

The Princess Royal holds the distinction of being amongst the most dedicated members of the Royal Family, despite also being one of its elder statespeople.

Even after sustaining concussion from a horse accident in 2024, Anne took only a short period of absence to recuperate before resuming her royal engagements.

Will there be a season 2 of Alley Cats on Netflix?

This is frankly a book of prejudices,’ thunders P. Morton Shand in the preface to his 1927 classic A Book Of Food, ‘for all food is a question of likes and dislikes. One may be tolerant about religion, politics, and a hundred and one other things, but not about the food one eats.’ Amen to that.

Because there is nothing more personal and subjective than what you put into your mouth. One man’s honey is another man’s tripe, and your choice of food is an insight into your very soul.

‘Tell me what you eat,’ declared Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer, politician and committed trencherman, ‘and I’ll tell you what you are.’

You could turn celibate, dodge taxes, even take up Morris dancing. But you’ll always have to eat.

Tastes change as we age, and ingredients that were once the very definition of disgust – snot-like oysters, say, or olives, with their resolutely savoury sneer – gradually become much adored adult staples.

I’ll eat pretty much anything (save British Airways food), but I just don’t get goat’s cheese. I want to love it, to frolic among the Dorstones and Bûcherons, but to me it will always taste like licking the farmyard floor, all musty feral filth.

I have one friend who hates mushrooms, another who can’t stand tomatoes (although he loves ketchup) and one more who won’t touch lamb. There really is no accounting for taste.

Which is why the list below is an attempt to cut a swathe through the thickets of marketing hyperbole and come to some form of palatable truth.

I hate sanctimony and finger- wagging as much as the next man, and am as happy eating a McDonald’s cheeseburger as I am the most gilded Michelin-star creation. No one likes a food snob. But there are some things I won’t touch for reasons ethical and moral. As well as a few things I just can’t bear.

Foie Gras

Gavage is the force-feeding of corn or maize to ducks and geese via a metal tube shoved down their throats. The aim is to swell their livers up to ten times the usual size. Hence foie gras, or ‘fatty liver’.

In many cases, the birds are crammed in tiny cages, unable even to stretch their wings. It’s pretty difficult to defend.

I did used to eat it, and have heard tales of happy Gascon birds actually following their horny-handed farmer around, desperate for their next hit of grain. But that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

There are also companies that claim to produce an ‘ethical’ version. But no delicacy is worth that amount of suffering, and so I give foie gras a very firm miss.

I did used to eat foie gras, and have heard tales of happy Gascon birds following their farmer around, desperate for their next hit of grain. But that seems to be an exception, writes Parker Bowles

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Mackerel

One of my favourite fish, all gleaming iridescent skin and sweet, rich flesh. But although not officially endangered, stocks in the north-east Atlantic are plummeting. Waitrose, in an admirable move, has stopped stocking it, replacing it with the ever undervalued herring. For an alternative, try Cornish sardines.

Fake meat

There was a time a few years back when the catchily named ‘vegan plant-based meat alternatives’ were set to conquer the earth, putting an end to meat‑eating once and for all.

The usual venture capital firms all piled in to the likes of Beyond Burger, This Isn’t Bacon Rashers, La Vie and I Am Nut OK. And by 2022, sales reached a staggering £1billion.

But then the hype wore off, the decline set in and everyone realised quite how vile these ‘foods’ were. My issue is not with veganism itself, rather these nefarious atrocities which have all the culinary appeal of burnt rubber.

And it’s not as if they are the healthy alternative to meat. In fact, most are every bit as fake and processed as any Pot Noodle or cheap hotdog.

The average ingredient list includes the likes of ‘textured pea protein’ and ‘pea protein isolate’, the ‘thickeners’ that include methylcellulose, konjac, carrageenan and xanthan gum, ‘natural flavouring’, ‘dextrose’, ‘colour (beetroot red)’ and casings made from ‘sodium alginate’.

My favourite pork chipolata from HG Walter, on the other hand, is made from 90 per cent free-range British pork, breadcrumbs, salt, herbs, and spices. I know which one I’d prefer.

Intensively farmed meat

The horrors of factory farming are all too clear. Broiler chickens (farmed for meat) bred to grow unnaturally fast and slaughtered at six weeks old, having been confined to cramped, stinking sheds devoid of natural light, the air polluted with irritant ammonia and barely the space to flap their wings.

They spend much of their time on the floor, not moving, as their legs are barely strong enough to support their heavy body. This unnatural growth also puts strain on their hearts and lungs, and millions of chickens die of heart attacks every year.

It’s the same with pigs, crammed into sheds with salted concrete floors, often without even hay for bedding and rooting. Again, there’s no natural light, and no access to outdoor space.

Highly intelligent, social beasts, these pigs become bored and frustrated, fighting and biting each other. Which means that most piglets have their teeth cut and tails docked.

If the label doesn’t say ‘free-range’ or ‘organic’ you can bet your bottom dollar the wretched beast has been raised in less than happy conditions.

Good quality, ethically produced meat will always cost more. I know it’s all very well as an over- privileged food writer telling you to eat a £20 chicken, but one superior bird doesn’t just give you dinner, but sandwiches and stock, too.

I do believe we should eat less meat, and better quality. Trust your butcher, who should be only too happy to tell you exactly where your meat comes from.

And don’t just go for chicken breasts and sirloin steaks. Chicken thighs have more flavour than breast, while shin of beef and oxtail, classic slow-cooking cuts, make for magnificent eating and are cheaper, too.

Again, ask your butcher for their advice. Happy, outdoor-bred pigs and chickens will always make for much better eating. For more information on the horrors of factory farming, go to ciwf.org.uk.

If the label doesn’t say ‘free-range’ or ‘organic’ you can bet your bottom dollar the wretched beast has been raised in less than happy conditions

‘Low-fat’ anything

I love fat. Fat is flavour. Fat is life. So no, I don’t want my yoghurt or cheese anything other than full strength. As for skimmed milk – get thee away, you lily-livered Satan.

Hot honey

OK, enough now. I like honey, I love chilli, and when it first came out I sort of understood its appeal. But now it’s bloody everywhere, like a fierily sticky virus, drizzled (urgh) over pizzas, burgers, fried chicken, ice cream. You’ve had your moment in the sun – it’s time to retire to the back of the cupboard of food fads long past.

Margarine

There is never, ever any excuse to choose margarine over butter. If I had my way, I’d take it out to the back of the house, offer it one last cigarette, then shoot it in the back of the head. Good riddance to a hateful spread.

Tasting menus

Ah, the tyranny of the tasting menu. Once the very pinnacle of the heady haute cuisine experience, with up to 40 courses of post-modern culinary trickiness, they are now my idea of hell. It is not that the artistry is lacking (and places like The Ritz and The Ledbury still dazzle), rather the thought of being pinned to one’s chair for over three hours as dish after dish is gushingly explained at great length as if it were some rare and wonderful piece of art.

Yes, The Fat Duck, Noma and El Bulli were all huge fun, often bonkersly brilliant. Although with a glass of wine with each course, I was usually so sozzled by the end that I could barely manage speech, let alone remember the previous 20 courses. Anyway, give me three old-fashioned courses and I’m a happy man.

Whilst places like The Ritz and The Ledbury still dazzle, the thought of being pinned to one’s chair for over three hours is excruciating

Too much information

In any decent restaurant, one assumes all the meat will be ethically raised. If you’re particularly taken by a certain cut or joint, you can ask your waiter for more information. What I don’t need to read on the menu is their life history, including the field it comes from, its star sign and favourite member of One Direction.

Fake ‘allergies’ and intolerances

Genuine food allergies should be treated with the utmost respect, as they can be a matter of life or death. The same goes for those with Coeliac disease. What is not to be taken seriously is people who claim gluten ‘intolerance’ because they think bread makes them fat. Or claim they’re allergic to celery, say, when it turns out they just don’t like it. It’s needy, fussy and annoying for chefs and those actually afflicted by genuine allergies.

Truffle oil

An age-old bugbear, this base and horrible unguent has all the subtlety and elegance of a wet haddock slapped across one’s face. Noxious and predominantly artificially flavoured, truffle oil ruins everything it touches. It’s not big, it’s not sophisticated and it sure ain’t clever.

Genuine truffles are truly blessed tubers. The black Perigord truffle is all about flavour and the Alba white intoxicates with its heady scent. Truffle oil, on the other hand, is a dumb, aggressive brute with all the culinary sophistication of a battered saveloy.

Dill

I know, I know, dill is the much-loved star of many of the great cuisines of the world. But I can’t stand the stuff, and can taste even the tiniest hidden frond. It’s not so much a herb as a great, swaggering green-tressed thug.

Small plates

Yes, I have heard of your cutting-edge new concept. The Spanish have been at it for years, as has much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. The clue is in the name, and, yes, I do know they’re for sharing.

Farmed salmon

I wrote at length on the subject a few weeks back and still avoid the stuff like the plague. Too many fish crammed into too little water, fed on fundamentally unsustainable pellets while being plagued by sea lice that can literally eat them alive.

To control sea lice, chemicals that can devastate the local seabed are needed. Farmed fish also escape and breed with the increasingly rare wild salmon stock, diluting its genetic resistance.

Mortality rates can be staggeringly high, and pollution from the farms, thick and stinking, ends up coating the sea floor. The end result (flabby, fatty and dull) is, on the whole, a sorry shadow of its wild cousin.

That said, I did receive an invitation from Tavish Scott, chief executive of Salmon Scotland, inviting me to come and see the farms for myself. I will report back.

Emergency services were called to St Helens Road in Leigh this afternoon following the incident.

Greater Manchester Police confirmed a man was taken to hospital with “serious injuries”.

Police are at St Helens Road following the incident (Image: Stock)

Police have not yet confirmed further details about the incident and enquiries are ongoing.

St Helens Road is currently closed in both directions, with traffic building in the area.

Traffic monitoring service Inrix reports: “St Helens Road, both ways closed, traffic congestion due to accident from Beech Crescent to Hand Lane.”

North West Ambulance Service has been approached for comment.

This is a breaking news story. More updates as they become available.

By JOE HUTCHISON, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER and ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: 01:13 BST, 15 August 2026 | Updated: 04:42 BST, 15 August 2026

A potential disaster was averted after an Arizona air traffic controller recognized that two jets were mistakenly flying on the same flight number. 

The near miss happened in the early hours of Friday morning when a pair of American Airlines planes under the same call sign and on the same frequency spoke with the controller as one arrived into Phoenix and another was leaving. 

Thankfully, the quick thinking controller recognized the confusion, and urged the two jets to keep a safe distance. 

If both pilots thought the controller was telling them to fly at the same altitude as they headed toward each other, they might have collided, so it was crucial they knew which plane he was directing, The Associated Press reported. 

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Audio of the incident captured the controller saying: ‘I’ve been working air traffic for 25 years. I’ve never seen two aircraft pretty much merge with the same call sign. That’s incredible.’ 

In the audio, shared by ATC.com, the controller started referring to the two as ‘American 2482 on the arrival,’ and ‘American 2482 on the departure’ to keep the two planes straight. 

The controller kept the arriving plane safely above the departing plane even as their flight paths converged, and made sure that the pilots of both airlines saw each other when they were still miles apart. 

He also directed the departing plane not to climb too high, so a gap would remain between the planes. 

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If both pilots thought the controller was telling them to fly at the same altitude as they headed toward each other, they might have collided

Thankfully the quick-thinking controller recognized the confusion, and urged the two jets to keep a safe distance

The arriving pilot complimented the controller for his ‘nice work’ once the two planes had passed each other safely.

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‘It could have been disastrous, but I’m glad it worked out,’ the controller replied.

Aviation safety expert Steve Arroyo told the AP that it’s likely that someone inside the airline’s dispatch center failed to catch that both planes would be in the air at the same time with identical flight numbers when both the dispatcher and the pilots signed off on the flight plan.

‘You can drop the ball and that shouldn’t happen, but it’s nice to see that the system is resilient and we have all the safeguards,’ said Arroyo, who has only seen this type of issue a couple times in his four decades with United Airlines. Arroyo started his career as a dispatcher before becoming a pilot.

Flight 2482 is a round-trip route that often flies back and forth between Chicago and Phoenix. 

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Typically, the same plane goes back and forth, but the flight out of Chicago was delayed by weather, so American found a second plane in Phoenix and that flight left on time. 

The result was that both planes briefly shared the same airspace before the arriving flight landed.

The Federal Aviation Administration and American Airlines will investigate how this happened, and they both emphasized how glad they were that everyone remained safe.

‘The diligence and professionalism of air traffic controllers and our pilots ensured required separation was always maintained and the issue was identified and addressed. Both flights continued safely and without incident,’ American Airlines said in a statement.

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The Happy Valley star, 41, is one of many actors who has been rumoured for the role since Daniel Craig confirmed No Time To Die – released in 2021 – would be his final outing as 007.

Speaking on Capital Breakfast, James was asked: “How many times have you been asked (about James Bond)?”

He replied: “I’ve been asked a thousand times over the last 10 years. And I can honestly, hand on heart, say no. I think I may be a little bit long in the tooth now.”

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James, who has played wide-ranging parts from a serial killer to village vicar, had his first experience of films at The Palace cinema in Malton and his first taste of fame when photos of his school play appeared in the Gazette & Herald.

Brought up near Malton, James attended Amotherby Primary School from the age of four where his inspiration to become an actor first started.

Speaking to the Gazette & Herald last year, James said he very happy there and remember getting the bus two or three miles down the road to school every morning,” he said.

He said: “I remember being there when I was just four years old and it’s bizarre but we were going to do the school Nativity when something happened in my head and I desperately wanted to play Joseph.

“I put my heart and soul into that role and from that moment I did every school production they put on.”

With James getting the acting bug he expanded his talents to by joining the Livewire Theatre Group in Butterwick run by Mary Tait.

“It was there that I did my very first play and had my first taste of theatre,” James added.

“Then at the age of 15, I went to the Stephen Joseph Theatre (SJT) in Scarborough on work experience for three weeks.

“While I was there I got to work behind the scenes in everything from production to the costume department.

“It was such an amazing opportunity and I think that sealed it for me that this was the world I wanted to be in.”

In 2023, James returned the favour the SJF had given him by becoming its new patron and in December 2025, he returned to Scarborough to host an “in conversation” event about his life at the venue.

He said: “To come back full circle was really nice. The venue was really important as part of my journey into this mad industry.

“The theatre as a really, really good outreach programme is the only producing theatre in North Yorkshire, which is a sad reflection on the state of regional theatre.”

“But, it is an amazing building, with amazing heritage and history. I love it.”

“I have a lot of love for Ryedale and of course, a lot of love for the Gazette & Herald. It is the first paper I ever read and one I featured in whenever I happened to be photographed while at primary school.”

A device called a speedscope can be trained on vehicles up to 1,000m away

GoSafe, Wales’ road casualty reduction partnership, has mapped out the latest locations of mobile speed cameras across the country. Marked vans and motorcycles are manned by fully-trained police staff or police officers who monitor the speed of passing vehicles.

Once they form the opinion that a vehicle is exceeding the speed limit they use equipment to record it – often resulting in prosecution.

A device called a speedscope can be trained on vehicles up to 1,000m away although most work is carried out far closer, GoSafe has said. Stay in the know by making sure you’re receiving our daily newsletter.

The time, date, speed, distance, site coding, and whether the vehicle is travelling towards or away from the checkpoint is recorded on the image to produce to the offending driver. The partnership publishes the exact locations of the mobile cameras on its website for the public to view.

Here is the latest information it has provided on its website.

Mobile speed cameras are in the following locations in Wales for August 2026 according to the GoSafe website:

Anglesey

• A4080 Dwyran, Anglesey
• B5420 Pentraeth Road, Menai Bridge, Anglesey
• A4080/Brynsiencyn Road/by Lon Pwllfanogl/Llanfair PG,/Anglesey
• A5 Gaerwen, Anglesey
• A55 Westbound between junctions six and seven by Gaerwen, Anglesey
• Llangefni Link Road, Llangefni
• A5025 Pentraeth
• A5108 Moelfre, Anglesey
• B5110 Marian Glas, Anglesey
• Capel Coch, Anglesey
• B5109 Llynfaes, Anglesey
• A4080/Engedi/Anglesey
• A55 by junction four, Anglesey
• A5025 approximately 0.3km from junction for Llanddeusant, Llanfaethlu, Anglesey
• A5025 by Ysgol Rhyd y Llan, Llanfaethlu, Anglesey
• A5025, Trgele, Cemaes Bay, Anglesey
• A5025, Cerrig-Man, Amlwch, Anglesey

Blaenau Gwent

• Rose Heyworth Road, Abertillery
• Bournville Road/Blaina
• Bryn Terrace, High Street, Blaina
• Chapel Road/Nantyglo
• Beaufort Hill / King Street, Ebbw Vale
• Beaufort Road, Ebbw Vale
• A4046/College Road/Ebbw Vale
• A4046/Ebbw Vale

Bridgend

• Heol Gorllewin, near Kenfig Nature Reserve
• Fairfield, North Cornelly
• West Road, Nottage, Porthcawl
• Fulmar Road, Porthcawl
• A4106 Boulevard de St Sebastien-Sur-Loire, Porthcawl (The Portway)
• Newton Nottage Road, Porthcawl
• B4281/Farm Road/Cefn Cribwr
• B4622/Broadlands Link Road/Bridgend
• A48 Bypass Road (Island Farm), Bridgend
• Ewenny Road, Bridgend
• Merlin Crescent, Cefn Glas, Bridgend
• Llangewydd Road, Cefn Glas, Bridgend
• Tondu Road, Bridgend
• A473 Coychurch Bypass
• A4063 Sarn Bypass
• Bryn Road, Brynmenyn
• A4093 Glynogwr
• Llwydarth Road, Maesteg
• Commercial Street, Maesteg
• Heol Ty Gwyn, Maesteg

Caerphilly

• B4623/Mountain Road/Caerphilly
• Pontygwindy Road, Caerphilly
• B4263 Mill Road / Bowls Terrace, Caerphilly
• A467 Danycraig
• B4251 Cwmfelinfach
• A469 Llanbradach
• Nelson Road, Ystrad Mynach
• Pant Road Newbridge
• Park Road, Newbridge
• Kendon Hill, Crumlin / Oakdale
• A4048 Argoed, near Blackwood
• Bloomfield Road, Blackwood
• Greenwood Road, Blackwood, Caerphilly
• A469 High Street, Pengam
• St Mary’s Street, Gilfach, Bargoed
• Pengam Road, Brittania
• A4049 Pengam Road, Aberbargoed
• B4511/Bedwellty Road/Aberbargoed
• A4048/Newport Road/Hollybush
• Station Row, Coed Cae, Tirphil
• Bailey Street, Deri, Bargoed
• Brook Row, Fochriw

Cardiff

• M4/Junctions 33 to 34/Bridge Site
• Heol y Pentre, Pentyrch
• B4262 Heol Isaf, Radyr (Scout Hall)
• Lansdowne Road, Cardiff
• Llandaf Road, Cardiff
• Pencisely Road, Cardiff
• Romilly Road, Canton
• Merthyr Road/The Philog, Cardiff
• A470 Northern Ave, Manor Way, Cardiff
• Pantbach Road, Cardiff
• Merthyr Road/Cardiff
• Thornhill Road, Cardiff
• Ashbourn Way, Llanishen
• Heathwood Road, Cardiff
• Heath Park Avenue, Cardiff
• Lake Road West, Roath
• Lake Road East, Roath
• Cyncoed Road, Cardiff
• Ty Draw Road/Roath
• Danycoed Road, Cardiff
• A48/Llanedeyrn/Cardiff
• Wentloog Ave, Cardiff
• Newport Rd, Old St Mellons
• A48 Newport Road, near Cardiff Garden Centre, Cardiff
• Cypress Drive/St Mellons

Carmarthenshire

• Pembrey CP School
• A484/Burry Port/30mph Speed Limit Area
• Old Road Community Primary School
• Penallt Road/Brynallt Terrace, Llanelli
• Heol Goffa, Llanelli North
• Corporation Avenue, Llanelli North
• Capel Isaf Road, Llanelli North
• Capel Road, Llanelli North
• Dafen Community Primary School
• Bryngwyn Road, Llanelli North
• Bryn Community Primary School
• Swiss Valley Primary School
• Llethri Road, Felinfoel
• B4309 Five Roads
• B4309 Meinciau
• B4306 Heol y Banc, Bancffosfelen
• Pontyberem Primary School
• B4310 Porthyrhyd
• B4310 Heol Caegwyn, Drefach
• Drefach CP School
• Y Tumble
• Llechyfedach CP School
• Cefneithin Primary School
• Ysgol Gynradd Cross Hands
• Cwmgwili, Carmarthenshire
• Black Lion Road, Cross Hands-Gorslas
• A476/Carmel South
• A476/Carmel North
• Saron Church, Saron
• Saron Primary School
• Hendre Road, Tycroes/Caple Hendre
• Betws Primary School
• Nantycaws/Carmarthen
• A484 Cwmffrwd
• Rhydygors School
• Llangunnor Primary School
• Model Church in Wales School
• B4310 Nantgaredig
• A485 Rhydargaeau
• B4332 Cenarth
• A484/Saron/Llandysul
• A484/Rhos/Llandysul
• Ysgol Gymunedol Cae’r Felin
• B4337 Llanybydder
• A485 Village of Cwmann
• A482 Cwmann South
• B4302 Talley
• Llangadog Primary School
• A482 Village of Llanwrda
• A4069 Broad Street, Llandovery

Ceredigion

• A475/Llandyfriog/Ceredigion
• B4337/Alltyblaca

Conwy

• A5 Capel Curig
• A470 Llanrwst, Conwy
• Penmaenmawr Road, Llanfairechan, Conwy
• B5106/Llanrwst Road/by Conwy Holiday Park/Conwy
• Gloddaeth Lane, Llandudno, Conwy
• Dinerth Road, Rhos on Sea, Conwy
• B5115 Brompton Avenue, Rhos on Sea, Conwy
• A548 Belgrano, Abergele, Conwy

Denbighshire

• A525/Llandegla/approx. 0.9 km east of junction with A5104/Denbighshire
• A494 Llanferres, Denbighshire
• A494 Llanbedr DC, Denbighshire
• A525 between Pentre Llanrhaeadr and Rhewl, near to Bachymbyd Isaf
• A541, Bodfari, Denbighshire
• A543 near to St Brigid’s School, Denbigh, Denbighshire
• A525 Trefnant, Denbighshire
• B5381/Lower Denbigh Road/near to Eryl Hall/St Asaph/Denbighshire
• A55 Rhuallt Hill (Eastbound), Denbighshire
• St Asaph Road/Abergele Road, Bodelwyddan
• Unclassifed road, between Rhuddlan Road and Ronaldsway, Bodelwyddan
• A547 Abergele Road, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire
• A548 Russell Road – Rhyl Coast Road, Rhyl, Denbighshire
• A548 Victoria Road, Prestatyn, Denbighshire
• A548 Prestatyn Road, Prestatyn

Flintshire

• A550 Hawarden Road, Caergwrle, Flintshire
• A550 Hope, Flintshire
• Main Road, Higher Kinnerton, Flintshire
• A5104 Mold Road, near Warren Hall Court, Broughton, Flintshire
• A550 Penyffordd, Flintshire
• A5118/Padeswood to Penymynydd/ near to Bannel Golf Range/ Flintshire
• Jubliee Road, near junction with Jubilee Court, Buckley
• Jubilee Road/Buckley/ Flintshire
• B5125 Chester Road, Hawarden, Flintshire
• B5129 Saltney Ferry Road, Saltney Ferry, Flintshire
• B5125 Chester Road, Hawarden, Flintshire
• Jubilee Road/Buckley/ Flintshire
• Jubliee Road, near junction with Jubilee Court, Buckley
• B5125 Hawarden High School, Hawarden, Flintshire
• B5441 Station Road, Queensferry, Flintshire
• Liverpool Road, Buckley, Flintshire
• Ffordd Newydd, Connahs Quay, Flintshire
• Wepre County Primary School, Ffordd Wepre, Connah’s Quay, Flintshire
• B5126 Mold Road, Connah’s Quay, Flintshire
• A5119 Ruthin Road-New St, Mold, Flintshire
• A5119 Sychdyn, near Mold Flintshire
• Maes Celyn to Colege Cambria, Northop, Flintshire
• A5119/Northop Road/Flint Mountain/Flint
• A5119 Northop Road, Flint (outside Flint High School), Flint
• A541 Rhydymwyn, Mold, Flintshire
• A541 Nannerch, Sir y Fflint / A541 Nannerch, Flintshire
• A5026 BY Cefn Lane, Milwr, Holywell, FlintshireA5026 near Ysgol Glan Aber, Boot End, Bagillt, Flintshire
• A548 Bagillt Road, Greenfield, Holywell, Flintshire
• B5121 Brynford (Outside Brynford School), Flintshire
• A5026 Holway Road, Carmel, Flintshire
• A541/Afonwen/Mold
• B5122 North Street, Caerwys, Flintshire
• A5026/St Asaph Road/Lloc, Flintshire
• Unclassified Road, between Tre-Motsyn and Whitford, Whitford, Holywell, Flintshire
• A548 Tan Lan, Flintshire
• A5151/London Road/Trelawnyd/outside Jacksons Garden
• A5151 London Road, Trelawnyd

Gwynedd

• A470 Dinas Mawddwy, Gwynedd
• A493 Aberdyfi, Gwynedd
• A493 Cwrt, Gwynedd
• A493 Ffriog, Gwynedd
• A470 Dolgellau By Pass, Gwynedd
• A494 Bala, Gwynedd
• A4212 Frongoch, Gwynedd
• A487 Plas Tan y Bwlch, Maentwrog, Gwynedd
• A487 Porthmadog By Pass, Gwynedd
• Morfa Bychan Road, between Morfa Bcyhan and Porthmadog, Gwynedd
• B4354 Chwilog, Gwynedd
• B4413 Penygroeslon, Gwynedd
• B4417 Ysgol Gynradd Nefyn, Nefyn, Gwynedd
• A499 Gyrn Goch, Gwynedd
• A487 Pant Glas, Gwynedd
• B4418 County Road, Penygroes, Gwynedd
• A499 Pontllyfni, Gwynedd
• A487 Caernarfon Bypass between Goat Roundabout and Llanfaglan underpass, Gwynedd
• A487 Caernarfon Bypass, between Plas Menai Roundabout and B4366 Bethel Road overbridge, Gwynedd
• B4366 Bethel Road, Bethel
• B4366 approx. 0.5km east of junction for Llanrug, between Bethel and Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd
• A487/Felinheli By-Pass
• A4244/Pentir/Bangor/Gwynedd
• A55 between junctions 10 and 11, Caerhun, Gwynedd
• A4244 Felin Hen, Bangor, Gwynedd

Merthyr Tydfil

• A470/Aberfan
• Golwg-yr-Afon, Merthyr Vale-Aberfan
• A4102/Swansea Road/Gellideg/Merthyr Tydfil
• A4054 Bethesda Street, Merthyr
• Goatmill Road, Dowlais
• High Street/Penydarren
• Rocky Road, Penydarren
• High Street, Dowlais

Monmouthshire

• Main Road, Portskewett
• Roman Road, Caerwent
• B4293 Llanishen
• Chepstow Road, Llansoy
• Monmouth Road/Usk
• A472 Berthon Road, Little Mill
• A4042 Between Goytre to Llanover
• Merthyr Road, Llanfoist
• A4077 Crickhowell Road, Gilwern
• A465 Pandy near Abergavenny
• Dixton Road, Monmouth
• Hereford Road, Monmouth

Neath Port Talbot

• Water Street, Margam (near Kenfig Industrial Estate)
• A4241 Harbour Way (near Tata Steel), Port Talbot
• Victoria Road, Port Talbot
• A4107 Gelli Houses, Cymmer
• B4286 Depot Road-Salem Road, Cwmavon
• Shelone Road, Briton Ferry
• A474 Neath Road, Britton Ferry
• A4230 near Sidings Terrace, Skewen
• B4267 Cimla Road, Neath
• Penywern Road, Rhyddings, Neath
• A4230 Main Road, Cadoxton
• Penscynnor – Pleasant Hill, Cilfrew
• A4109/Main Road/Aberdulais
• Swansea Road, Trebanos
• James Street/Gelligron Road, Pontardawe
• A474/Graig Road/Alltwen
• Commercial Road – Gelligron Road, Rhyd y Fro
• Ynysmeudwy Road, Pontardawe
• A4109 Crynant near Alderwood Close
• Starvin Hill, Crynant (near Tre Forgan)
• A474 Heol y Gors, Cwmgors

Newport

• A48 Castleton
• A48/Berryhill/Newport
• A468 Rhiwderin, Newport
• Duffryn Drive, Newport
• A48 SDR Pont Ebbw roundabout (E/B & W/B)
• A467 near Tregwilym Road
• Allt-yr-yn Ave, Newport
• Tregwilym Road near Jubilee Way, Rogerstone
• A467 Risca Bypass, northbound
• A467 Risca Bypass, southbound
• B4591 Cefn Road, Rogerstone
• B4596 Caerleon Road (East of Beaufort Rd)
• High Street, Caerleon
• Goldcliff Road, Goldcliff, Newport
• A4810 Queensway at Llanwern Plant Junction (40mph)
• A4810 Queensway (50mph) dual carriageway
• Bishton Road, Bishton
• B4245 Magor Road, Langstone
• B4245 Magor Road, Llanmartin
• A4810 Queensway near Llandevenny (50mph)
• New Road, Deri

Pembrokeshire

• A487 Simpsons Cross
• B4341 Portfield Gate
• Freystrop Village
• Houghton
• A4075 Holyland Road, Pembroke
• A4139 Jameston
• A4075 Carew Village
• A4139 Marsh Road, Tenby
• A478 Begelly
• A477/Llanteg
• Kiln Park Road, Narberth
• B4546 St Dogmaels Road, St Dogmaels

Powys

• A4067 Caerlan
• A470 Llwyncelyn, Brecon
• A470 Beacons Reservoir
• Cradoc County Primary School
• A40 Llanhamlach Powys
• Llangorse Church in Wales Primary School
• A438 Three Cocks to Glasbury Powys
• A470 Erwood Brecon
• A44 Forest Bends
• Rhayader Church in Wales Primary School
• A470 Clatter
• Ysgol Rhiw-Bechan, Tregynon
• Treowen C P School
• Ysgol Gymunedol Gynradd Abermule
• B4385 Montgomery
• Guilsfield C P School
• A458/near Bank Farm Caravan Park/ Middletown
• B4393/Llandrinio

Rhondda Cynon Taff

• Brynna Road, Brynna
• Dolau Primary, Bridgend Rd, LLanharan
• Cowbridge Road, Talygarn-Brynsadler
• Cowbridge Road, Pontyclun
• B4264 Heol Miskin
• A4119/Mwyndy Cross/Pontyclun
• Station Road, Church Village
• B4595/Brynteg/Llantrisant to Beddau
• B4595 Brynteg
• A4119 Ely Meadow-Ynysmaerdy roundabouts, Llantrisant
• Elwyn St-Ely Valley Rd, Coedely
• Heol Isaf-Nant Melyn Terr, Coedely
• Francis St-Tyn y Bryn, Thomastown
• Station Road, Church Village
• Ffynon Taf Primary, Cardiff Road, Taff’s Well
• A468 Caerphilly Road, Nantgarw
• Williams Place, near Dunelm, Hawthorn
• Elwyn St-Ely Valley Rd, Coedely
• Heol Isaf-Nant Melyn Terr, Coedely
• Francis St-Tyn y Bryn, Thomastown
• Hopkinstown Road, Rhondda Road, Hopkinstown
• Coedylan Primary, Tyfica Road, Pontypridd
• Merthyr Road, Pontypridd
• Cilfynydd Road, Cilfynydd
• New Rd/Ynysybwl Road, Ynysybwl
• B4275 Abercynon Road, Abercynon
• A4233/Ynyshir/Porth/Rhondda Cynon Taff
• Cymmer Road, Porth
• Dinas Road, Dinas
• Trealaw Road, Trealaw
• Pentwyn Road/Ton Pentre
• Gelli Primary, Ystrad Rd, Ystrad
• Rhondda Road, Ferndale
• A4233 near Ferndale Community School, Ferndale
• A4059 New Road, Mountain Ash
• A470/Abercynon-Pentrebach
• Cardiff Road, Aberaman
• Cwmbach Road/Aberdare
• Cwmynysminton Road, Lwydcoed

Swansea

• A4118 near Knelston Primary School, Knelston
• B4271 Fairwood Common, Swansea
• A4118 Fairwood Common, Swansea
• B4436 Northway, Bishopston
• A4118 Gower Road, Killay-Upper Killay
• Mumbles Road, near Liliput Lane
• Mumbles Road, Sketty Lane, Swansea
• Hendrefoilan Road, Sketty
• Oystermouth Road, Swansea
• A483/Fabian Way/near Port Tennant Rd
• B5444 Bonymaen Road, Pentrechwyth
• B4603 Neath Road, Plasmarl
• Swansea Road/Llangyfelach Road/Llangyfelach
• A48/Clasemont Road/Morriston
• Birchgrove Road, Glais
• St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Pontardawe Road, Clydach
• B4295 The Promenade-West End, Penclawdd
• B4295 Gowerton Road, Penclawdd
• Bryn y Mor Road, Gowerton
• Belgrave Road, Gorseinon
• Frampton Road, Gorseinon
• Heol Y Mynydd/Gorseinon
• B4296 Grovesend, Swansea
• Bolgoed Road, Pontarddulais

Torfaen

• Henllys Way, near Pentre Close, Cwmbran
• Henllys Way near Blinkin Owl public house, Coedeva
• Llantarnam Road, Llantarnam
• Llanfrechfa Way/Cwmbran
• Ty Gwyn Way, near Community Farm, Cwmbran
• Greenforge Way, Cwmbran
• The Highway, Croesyceiliog
• Station Road, Sebastopol
• The Highway, New Inn
• A472 SkewFields
• Crumlin Road/Pontypool
• Estate Road, Pontnewynydd, Pontypool
• B4246 Limekiln Road, Pontnewynydd
• Cleaves Terrace, Foundry Road, Abersychan
• B4246 New Rd, Garndiffaith
• B4246 Varteg, Abersychan

Vale of Glamorgan

• Porthcawl Road, Heol Fach, North Cornelly
• Main Road, Ogmore-By-Sea
• B4265 St Brides Major
• Wick Road, Ewenny
• B4524/Corntown Road/Corntown
• A48/Brocastle/Vale of Glamorgan
• Llantwit Road/Wick
• B4268 Llysworney Village
• Ruthin Road, Llangan, Fferm Goch-School
• B4270 Llanfrynanch Drive-Llantwit Major Rd, Cowbridge
• A48 Cowbridge Bypass
• A4222/Cowbridge Road/Ystradowen
• Eglwys Brewis Road, St Athan
• Burton Terr-Station Terr, East Aberthaw
• A48/Bonvilston/Wenvoe/Outside Police Station
• A48/St Nicholas
• Fontgary Road – Rhoose Road, Rhoose
• Porthkerry Road, Rhoose
• B4266 Pontypridd Road, Barry
• B4267 Lavernock Road, Penarth
• Westbourne Road, Penarth

Wrexham

• A5 Halton, Wrexham
• A539 Hanmer to Penley, Wrexham
• A525/Whitchurch Road/The Chequer/Wrexham
• A525 Horseman’s Green, Wrexham
• A525 approx. 0.47 km west of junction with Nell Peters Lane, Horsemans Green, Wrexham
• A525/Whitchurch Road/near Bank Farm/Bangor on Dee/Wrexham
• B5102 Wrexham Road/Castle Street, Holt, Wrexham
• A483/Rossett/Wrexham
• B5102/Llay Road/Cefn-y-Bedd to Llay/Wrexham
• B5430 Talwrn Road, Coedpoeth, Wrexham
• B5430 Llanarmon Road/Old Road Bwlchgwyn, Bwlchgwyn, Wrexham
• A525/Ruthin Road/near Bodhyfryd/Maes Maelor/Bwlchgwyn/Wrexham

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Karoline Leavitt cut an exhausted figure alongside Donald Trump a day after announcing she is quitting the White House at the end of the month, a decision that stunned Washington. 

The 28-year-old press secretary was at the President’s side on Friday as he traveled to New York to speak at a police academy.  

She stood and watched as Trump addressed reporters at Joint Base Andrews before the pair boarded Air Force One. 

Leavitt held her poker face as the press pack jostled around her boss. But she glanced back down toward the photographers as she climbed the stairs to the aircraft, her expression appearing to betray a flicker of regret.  

Leavitt announced on Thursday that she was leaving the White House to devote more time to her young family, a decision understood to have frustrated Trump, who had begged her to stay. 

She is among the President’s closest confidantes and had been expected to play a central role in the midterm campaign, with the election less than three months away.  

Leavitt returned from maternity leave only last month after giving birth to her daughter in May, her second child in the space of two years. 

She came back early at the insistence of the President, sources told the Daily Mail. 

Karoline Leavitt appeared forlorn on Friday as she accompanied Donald Trump just hours after announcing she is to quit the White House in a move that stunned Washington

The White House Press Secretary boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Trump is on his way to Garden City, New York, to speak at a police academy before continuing to Bedminster, New Jersey, to spend the weekend at his golf club

Donald Trump speaks to the press as Leavitt looks on at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

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Leavitt returned from maternity leave only last month after giving birth to her daughter in May 

No replacement has been announced, although Trump’s former lawyer Alina Habba is the odds-on favorite with bookmakers. 

Leavitt admitted it was a ‘bittersweet decision,’ calling it ‘the most rewarding yet challenging season of my life, to say the least.’ 

‘The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary – and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life,’ she wrote on X.

Trump posted on Truth Social that it was ‘a decision I totally understand and respect’, calling Leavitt ‘one of the best White House press secretaries in the history of the office.’

The President said Leavitt would remain a ‘top outside adviser’ and an ‘influential voice’ at the top of the Republican Party as the White House gears up for crunch midterm elections in November.

Leavitt is known for her tenacity at the podium in the White House briefing room, frequently mirroring the behavior of her boss in attacking ‘fake news’ journalists and dishing out tongue lashings to any reporter who dares to cross the administration.

She entered Trump’s orbit in 2018 during the first administration, first as a presidential writer and then as an assistant White House press secretary.

Leavitt worked as communications director for New York representative Elise Stefanik, a close Trump ally, from 2021 to 2022.

Trump speaks to the media after disembarking Marine One, before boarding Air Force One

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Leavitt looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks to the press

Leavitt prepares to board Marine One on The Ellipse near the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews

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She joined Trump’s re-election campaign as a national press secretary in 2024 and was announced as White House Press Secretary on his return to the Oval Office. 

If Leavitt does return to work, she is likely to have her pick of high-profile roles in Republican politics, conservative media and political communications.

Leavitt has a two-year-old son, Niko, and a three-month-old daughter, Vivi, with her real estate developer husband, Nicholas Riccio, 60, whom she married in January last year.

Leavitt’s resignation comes just two weeks after one of her top deputies, Abigail Jackson, left the White House for the private sector.