Things get green, red and spiky for Swansea Bay

Today is copy deadline day for the next issue of a wonderfully spirited left-leaning publication by the name of Celyn. Its previous issue had some strong Swansea Bay links.

The journal's title translates as Holly and, as the its motto states, the intention is to be "green, red ... and a bit spiky."
The bi-monthly carries a limited number of ads, with advertisers including Friends of the Earth Cymru and the thinking person's blog site Wales Home.
Features in the January edition, pictured, included a well-judged report from Copenhagen's climate change conference by Ysgol Ystalyfera student Cerith Jones.
Last year's Welsh youth climate change champion, he summised: "The right decisions are neither easy nor popular, but leadership and ambition must be shown in order to do us and future generations justice."
A news item focused on protests by Climate Camp Cymru at a Port Talbot biomass plant and its plans to produce electricity from imported woodchip.
A powerful two-page piece headlined The Battle of Castle Square featured a first-hand description of the recent anti-fascist protest in Swansea city centre when members of the ultra-rightwing English Defence League came to town.
Anti-EDL feature writer Colin Nosworthy wrote ruefully of the media coverage: "The depressing facts were these: They got coverage, we looked as though we were on their level and spoiling for a fight."
Celyn's first edition was published last May and aims to provide a "non-sectarian vehicle for ideas and debate and to move beyond the party tribalism that is so deeply rooted in Welsh politics."
Their only "bottom lines," they say, are to be green, socialist, anti-fascist, anti discrimination, egalitarian, pro worker, pro Welsh language and committed to the extension of devolution.
Good work, ladies and gents - here's to a growth in your influence across Swansea Bay and the rest of Wales.