2010 Memorial of Six Bells Colliery

Six Bells Colliery was a coal mine located in Six Bells, Abertillery, Monmouthshire, South Wales. In 1960 it was the site of an underground explosion which killed 45 local miners. The sculpture commemorates the pit disaster of 1960 and is a tribute to those who work in dangerous industries. Designed by Sebastian Boyesen, it is fabricated with thousands of steel ribbons. The statue was unveiled by The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams in 2010. Known as the Guardian, the statue has been described as "a Welsh answer to Antony Gormley's Angel of the North".

2009 Kilvey Hill transmitter digital switchover

The Kilvey Hill transmitting station was originally built at the summit of Kilvey Hill in Swansea, by the BBC in 1967 as a relay for VHF and UHF television. As built, the station did not radiate VHF FM radio, this was added later. Freeview digital terrestrial TV was already available at low power from this transmitter before the digital switchover process began. Currently, the hill's transmitters cater for viewers and listeners in the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot area. The transmission station located on top of Kilvey Hill is owned and operated by Arqiva.

2007 Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal's bank collaps

The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is a small network of canals in South Wales. For most of its 56 km (35 mile) length it runs through the Brecon Beacons National Park. In 2007 a serious breach occurred when part of the canal bank near Gilwern collapsed, causing a number of houses to be evacuated. Eight people were rescued, and the A4077 road between Crickhowell and Gilwern was closed, for a period which was expected to be several weeks. Two families were provided with temporary accommodation, and twenty-three hire boats were also affected with cranes being brought in to help them back to their bases.

2006 NDA announced Wylfa power station shut down

The Wylfa Nuclear Power Station (Welsh - Atomfa'r Wylfa) is situated just west of Cemaes Bay on the island of Anglesey, North Wales. Its location on the coast provided a cooling source for its operation. The construction of the power station, which was undertaken by British Nuclear Design & Construction (BNDC), began in 1963. The reactors were supplied by The Nuclear Power Group (TNPG) and the turbines by English Electric. It was the second nuclear power station to be built in Wales, after Trawsfynydd. Reactor 2 was retired in 2012, and in 2015, Reactor 1 was also shut down, after more than 44 years of operating.

2005 Cardiff celebrates its centenary

Cardiff (Welsh -  Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city in Wales and the tenth largest city in the United Kingdom. Cardiff was made a city in 1905, and proclaimed the capital of Wales in 1955, by a written reply by the Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George. The city was awarded with the European City of Sport in 2009 due to its role in hosting major international sporting events. Again Cardiff was the European City of Sport in 2014. The Millennium Stadium hosted 11 football matches as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics, including the games' opening event and the men's bronze medal match.

2004 Wales Millennium Centre

Wales Millennium Centre (Welsh - Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay. Phase 1 of the building was opened in 2004 and phase 2 opened in 2009 with an inaugural concert. Opening ceremony was organised by Bryn Terfel, the creative director of the whole opening weekend. The centre has hosted performances of opera, ballet, dance, comedy and musicals. The main theatre, the Donald Gordon Theatre, has 1,897 seats, the BBC Hoddinott Hall 350 and the Weston Studio Theatre 250. The inscription in the front of the building in Welsh reads: CREU GWIR FEL GWYDR O FFWRNAIS AWEN (English: Creating Truth Like Glass From Inspiration's Furnace). The inscription in English reads: IN THESE STONES HORIZONS SING.

2000 Child abuse scandal

The North Wales child abuse scandal was the subject of a three-year, £13 million investigation into the physical and sexual abuse of children in care homes in the counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd, in North Wales, including the Bryn Estyn children's home at Wrexham, between 1974 and 1990. The report into the scandal, headed by retired High Court judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC, which was published in 2000. In 2014, the owner of several children's residential homes in the Wrexham area, John Allen, was convicted at Mold Crown Court on 33 counts of sexual abuse against 19 boys and one girl, aged between 7 and 15, during the 1960s and 1970s. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.