Lee Waters, the man behind Wales’ 20 miles per hour speed limit change across Wales will stand down form his role as deputy minister for climate change when a new first minister is announced later on this month. He also said he will delete his x, formerly twitter, account due to malign comments on innocuous posts.<br /><br />The covid inquiry currently ongoing in Cardiff has heard that Mark Drakeford called local lockdowns across Wales a ‘failed experiment’. They came into place in September 2020 in Caerphilly with a number of other locations following suit. The inquiry is set to continue until 14th March.<br /><br />Empty houses across Cardiff could see a thee hundred percent rise in council tax, hoping to bring unused homes back into use. The plans mean the longer a house is unoccupied, the more council tax would be paid, rising to two hundred percent after two years and three hundred percent after three years.