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Wales Online
6 days ago
- Climate
- Wales Online
Empty bottles, cans, and takeaway boxes strewn across Welsh beach after hottest day
Empty bottles, cans, and takeaway boxes strewn across Welsh beach after hottest day Porthcawl's Sandy Bay was left strewn with rubbish on Tuesday after people visited during the heatwave Litter pickers collected more than 400kg of rubbish which had been left on the beach (Image: Porthcawl Wombles) A beautiful Welsh beach was left covered in rubbish after people flocked there on one of the hottest days of the year. More than 400kg of rubbish was left on Porthcawl's Sandy Bay on Tuesday evening after huge crowds visited the beach to enjoy the scorching temperatures and evening fireworks display put on by the Hi Tide Inn but left heaps of rubbish behind. A litter pick run by the local Porthcawl Wombles group, which was set up by locals who felt they "needed to do something", conducted an early-morning litter pick on Wednesday to tackle the mess before high tide swept it all into the sea. The group collected 433kg of rubbish including cans, glass, plastic, food, nappies, clothes, toys, towels, bottles, barbecues, and condoms. The huge amount of rubbish took 30 volunteer litter-pickers about an hour and a half to clear. The beach on Tuesday evening (Image: Dan Alexander) "If we didn't do this it would be going into the oceans," said Natasha Ackland who is part of the group. Stay informed on Bridgend news by signing up to our newsletter here. A week earlier on the morning of Wednesday, August 6, the group collected 150kg, showing the huge difference the sunny weather can make. Article continues below The leftover rubbish on Wednesday morning (Image: Porthcawl Wombles) Earlier this summer a couple of surfers and swimmers set up the Porthcawl Wombles group and have already got a group of around 40 members in just a few weeks. The volunteers had grown frustrated with the huge amount of litter which some beachgoers leave behind and the lack of bins available to meet the demand. Although the group said Wednesday's litter-pick was the biggest one they've ever had to do some members go out every day and collect between 50kg and 100kg each time. Content cannot be displayed without consent Dan Alexander lives about 15 minutes from Porthcawl and regularly visits with his family and to walk his dog. He said it was "rancid" on Tuesday evening. He said: "We got down there about 8pm. "The beach was still packed with people but also packed with the rubbish that people had left – it was across the whole shoreline. "Children were playing in it and I saw one young lad toss a can of Stella back into the sea when he tripped over it. "People didn't seem at all bothered by it which is the worrying part but I certainly didn't want my son playing in it – people had left cans, bottles, empty packets, chip boxes. "Even cocktail sticks were floating in the water. "We were at Pembrey the day before and you won't see a single piece of rubbish there. Yet somehow they think it's all right to leave the beach like this in Porthcawl." He added: "It's infuriating. Worst I've seen it since we've been coming here." Natasha who, grew up in Bridgend and now lives in St Athan, is part of the Surf Soul Searchers and Porthcawl Wombles groups and has grown increasingly infuriated by the situation. She said: "We haven't seen [the beach] that busy in a long time – it was extremely busy and even more so in the evening with the fireworks. "[The rubbish] was just horrendous [on Wednesday] morning. We just want people to take responsibility for their rubbish." Article continues below Anyone who is interested in joining Porthcawl Wombles can find out more information on their Facebook and Instagram pages.
The Hill
30-06-2025
- Business
- The Hill
Trump: Forbes ‘continues to hang around like a bad disease'
President Trump attacked Forbes on Monday, calling out one of the outlet's journalists by name as he ripped the financial news publication over its coverage of him. 'Not that it really matters, but a terribly untalented writer for badly failing Forbes Magazine, Dan Alexander, who probably can't get a meaningful job in the business, has written so inaccurately about me that it is ridiculous,' Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. 'Many others also, the media is mostly Fake News, but Forbes doesn't even try to get things right.' The president said he hasn't spoken to journalists at Forbes 'in years,' claiming the outlet is biased against, writing 'they're so inaccurate (purposely!) about everything.' 'I would have thought Forbes would be DEAD by now, but it continues to hang around like a bad disease,' Trump continued. 'Isn't it owned by a hostile nation? Anyway, that's what happens when you have bad reporters with evil intentions. Eventually the publication dies. I've happily seen it over, and over, again!' Forbes has been owned since 2014 by Hong Kong-based Integrated Whale Media Investments. It was the second time in less than a week the president has singled out a reporter at a major publication as part of his effort to discredit news reporting about his administration. The president has attacked the New York Times, Washington Post and each of the major broadcast news networks over coverage and threatened to have his FCC scrutinize them. Trump most recently attacked Forbes in 2023, when it dropped the then former president off of its 'wealthiest Americans' list.
Forbes
23-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Members-Only Event: Trump's First 100 Days
April 30 marks President Donald Trump's 100th day in office. Forbes has been tracking how his every move impacts the nation, international politics, markets and security, the rising influence of billionaires—and his business empire. Join us April 30th at 12 PM EST for a live in-depth conversation with audience Q&A on what just happened and what's ahead. Attend and learn: Dan Alexander Forbes Dan Alexander is a senior editor at Forbes, overseeing money-in-politics coverage, as well as the author of White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business. Alexander joined Forbes in 2012 and has investigated the personal finances of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Wilbur Ross, and others. His work has sparked state and federal investigations, came up repeatedly in Trump's fraud trial and helped send longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg to jail. The Society of American Business Editors and Writers awarded two of his stories with honorable mentions in 2019 and named White House, Inc. one of the best business books of the year in 2021. Emily Baker-White Forbes Emily Baker-White is an investigative reporter and senior writer at Forbes. She joined Forbes from BuzzFeed News in 2022 and covers the way tech companies shape our discourse, commerce, and culture. Baker-White's coverage of TikTok won the 2024 NYFWA Impact Award and a 2022 SABEW Best in Business Honorable Mention. It has been widely cited by lawmakers, regulators and other news outlets. At BuzzFeed, she broke the story that the company had made private U.S. user data widely accessible to employees of TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, in China. At Forbes, she exposed an effort by ByteDance employees to surveil U.S. citizens, including herself. Sarah Dorn Forbes Sara Dorn is a Forbes news reporter who covers politics, with a focus on elections and Capitol Hill. She joined Forbes in 2022 and is based in New York. She's covered the 2022 midterms, 2024 presidential campaign, the January 6 House committee investigation, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's historic ouster, the 2023 State of the Union Address, former President Donald Trump's federal election interference and classified documents cases and his Manhattan hush money case. Dorn graduated in 2012 from the University of Dayton with a degree in journalism. Prior to joining Forbes, she covered New York City and state politics for the New York Post and City and State magazine. Derek Saul Forbes Derek Saul is a New Jersey-based Senior Reporter on Forbes' news team. He graduated in 2021 from Duke University, where he majored in Economics and served as sports editor for The Chronicle, Duke's student newspaper, joining Forbes soon thereafter. Saul has covered everything from Trump Media to the Saudi Arabian influence on golf and what real-life billionaires think of "Succession." Send tips to dsaul@ Follow Saul for analysis on the biggest daily economic and stock market happenings, ranging from inflation data to tech earnings to deep-dives on hot button assets.
