Plaid Cymru inflicts another by-election defeat on Reform UK

Martin Shipton Plaid Cymru retained a seat on Caerphilly council following a decisive by-election victory over Reform UK, with Labour a distant third. Anthony Cook won the vacant seat in the Hengoed ward with 509 votes (49.9%), followed by Reform’s Kimberley Heath with 371 (36.4%), Dan Kelly (Labour) with 103 (10.1), David Emmins (Conservative) with…