95 offices across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are likely to close which will affect up to 12,300 staff serving some of the remotest communities in the UK. Unfortunately, this is typical of the Westminster Labour government.

It does not seem to be interested in serving our people. Just like with their post office closure programme, it has no interest in protecting local services, it is just cutting them.

This announcement means that access to tax advice in communities across Mid Wales will be damaged. Again it is our local businesses and the public that will suffer as a result of these proposals.

They are also taking quality jobs out of our local communities which desperately need these sort of jobs.

The government has to recognise that this erosion of confidence we are seeing can only be halted by having enough civil and public servants with the right resources to do the job.

I have renewed Plaid's call on the UK government to reconsider its centralisation of public service offices in light of its adverse economic, social and environmental impact.

Whether they will they listen is another matter.

It was disturbing to see on this week's BBC's Panorama programme that child Labour is still rife in some parts of the world.

Clothing firm Primark has had to fire three of its Indian suppliers who had sub-contracted smaller firms who were using child labour to carry out embroidery and sequin work.

We need to rid the world of this sort of thing and I was heartened to hear that recently Wales has become the world's first FairTrade nation.

It means the country has demonstrated its commitment to trade that aims to provide more security, stability and justice for producers in the developing world.

Powys of course has been a FairTrade county for a while with towns like Llanidloes, Knighton and Brecon leading the way in this area. Across Wales we have FairTrade groups in 58 towns, all 22 Welsh counties, and in less than a year more than 400 schools have committed to learning about FairTrade and using FairTrade products.

I think it's excellent news and has shown that small countries like Wales can make a difference in this world.

There is no doubt a lot has already been achieved and I hope that this will galvanize further communities to support fair trade. However, there is a long way to go and we need to concentrate on driving awareness of fair trade.

The more we can create demand for fair trade, the more producers will get better wages and better living conditions.

People need to get to grips with how revolutionary this is.

You are making people's lives better, what could be a better incentive than that?