THE Assembly Government's response to the recession came under fire yesterday from a cross-party group of AMs amid allegations Plaid Cymru sought to protect the Deputy First Minister from criticism.

The Wisconsin Book Festival is the main event this weekend, but there is much more to be found between its covers.

The defunct Birmingham-based electronic-pop trio Plone has been remixed by London's Plaid for the just-released Warp20 compilation, which features 21 Warp artists remixing tracks from the storied label's past.

REGULAR readers will know that Plaid Cymru has been fighting hard to persuade the European Union to ditch plans for compulsory tagging and instead try out a voluntary scheme.

Mr Piebalgs was a Communist party member in the 1980s, when he worked as a headteacher in what was then part of the USSR Photo: GETTY Andris Piebalgs, 51, the European Commissioner for Energy, leads the team which drafted the controversial regulations that will see all incandescent bulbs phased out by 2012.

"YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, Old Lyric Repertory Company, Caine Lyric Theatre, Logan, through Aug.

Plaid Cymru win in Ceredigion Results from last weeka TMs European Election in Ceredigion have shown that voters continue to trust and support Plaid Cymru.

Posted by Xeni Jardin , May 18, 2009 12:14 PM Recently on Boing Boing Video ... * "TO." An ambient animated short by filmmaker Bob Jaroc and the band Plaid .

"War Dialer," which references phone phreaking and early proto-hackery through a non-narrative, droning flow of sound and speech-babble, was originally created as an 8-channel audio-only installation in a bandstand on Brighton seafront as part of the Sonic Sea Air project , ten years ago.