Author: Alice Gregory

Direct from a successful run Off-Broadway, audiences are invited to join “everyone’s favourite pantomime dame,” (Metro) and Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist Mama G on a brand new panto adventure for the whole family! Evil Book Worm has decided that reading gives people too much knowledge, and makes all the books from Mama G’s library disappear. Before the world can turn to chaos, Mama G has to save the day by finding three books that will help make the world a better place. Of course, she can’t do it alone and that’s when she discovers the mysterious and wonderful Magic Bookmark……

INSTEAD of finding a location and then securing a home Paul Fosh property auctions is offering a mobile investment and all you need to do is to find a suitable setting. In a first for Newport-based Paul Fosh Auctions, more used to selling lots of bricks and mortar in situ, the leading property agents are offering a mobile glamping hut. When the virtual hammer falls the new owner of the glamping hut will literally have bought themselves a takeaway. Angie Davey, of Paul Fosh Auctions said:”Normally the lots we sell are in situ. This one, a fitted glamping hut is…

Paul Butterworth, the CEO of Chambers Wales South East, South West and Mid, has been appointed as the new Vice Chair of the Regional Learning and Skills Partnership (RLSP) for south-west Wales. Covering Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Swansea, the RLSP is dedicated to bridging the gap between education, skills, and regeneration. It aims to ensure that the skills provision is aligned with the economic priorities and opportunities of the region, as well as tackling the new skills landscape that is happening within the energy, construction, manufacturing and digital sectors. As CEO of Chambers Wales, Paul brings a wealth…

Swansea Bay’s first overseas midwife has been given a warm welcome by her patients and colleagues since arriving at Singleton Hospital. Abigail Peprah originally qualified in her home country of Ghana but decided on a new career in Swansea. Originally she had no plans to move to the UK or even to become a midwife. But she had a change of mind when her sister had a baby and she saw for herself what being a midwife involved. “It was all lovely and the midwives cared for her very well,” she recalled. In 2016, Abigail, then aged 20, started midwifery…

To celebrate Aberglasney Gardens’ 25th birthday this summer the renowned plantsman’s paradise in Carmarthenshire is asking children to design a colourful birthday card front cover. Children of all ages are being encouraged to enter the competition to design an A4 birthday card front cover and to make it as colourful as the flowers around Aberglasney Gardens using pens / paint / crayons or colouring pencils. The winning child can bring a group of friends (or classmates if it is a school entry) to have a fun-packed and informative guided tour of Aberglasney and the group will be given a birthday…

South Wales Law Firm JCP Solicitors has re-opened applications to their Swansea based Legal Apprenticeship programme, in preparation for a September 2024 start. Offering apprenticeships to education leavers, career switchers and those re-entering the workplace, the training programme gives apprentices the chance to ‘earn while they learn’ and study for either a Level 2 in Business Administration, Level 3 to become an Advanced Paralegal, or a CILEX Level 3 Legal Apprenticeship to eventually qualify as a Solicitor. Those studying the Level 3 path attend university for one day each week, putting theory into practice in the workplace throughout the rest…

Last week, housebuilder Barratt Developments South Wales, unveiled a ‘little library’ at its Parc Fferm Wen development in St Athan — encouraging local children to find joy in reading. Already overflowing with books donated by locals and Barratt staff, the library is a place where young people can swap an existing book with a new one of their choice — just like the pupils of St Athan Primary School. Thirty pupils headed to the site today, each armed with a book ready to be passed along to a new owner. They then selected a new second-hand book from the shelf…

A rapidly growing soccer club has signed a two-year sponsorship deal with its local Community Bank to kit out its younger players. Smart Money Cymru Community Bank, and other sponsors, have helped AFC Penrhiwceiber Minis and Juniors provide matchday playing kits for 280 enthusiastic players in girls and mixed teams. Chairman of the Minis and Juniors section of the club, Mathew Hargraves is delighted: “Many thanks to Smart Money Cymru and our other sponsors for their generosity which has enabled the club to provide these kits ensuring the teams look the part on matchdays. It is a great boost for…

One of the UK’s most iconic EDM/pop DJs of the last decade, Sigala* has sprinkled the UK charts with mammoth, high-energy dance hits since his debut single ‘Easy Love’ shot to No1 in 2015, including a Top10 chart collaboration with James Arthur** on ‘Lasting Lover’ in 2020.  Now, the maestro of the decks bounds into Swansea as he announces he’ll be James Arthur’s special guest at Singleton Park on 18 July. ‘Swansea I’m coming!’ smiles Sigala, “I can’t wait to hit the decks under the summer sky in Swansea, supporting the awesome James Arthur.  I’ll be pumping out some banging…

Many people approaching their 90th birthday might plan a quiet day with perhaps some gentle celebrations. Not so Penarth’s illustrious Colin Evans! For Colin, who will celebrate his 90th birthday on May 14, is planning to mark this milestone by swimming a mile for Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice in under an hour. “It was my daughter Jill who told me about Tŷ Hafan,” says Colin, former Head of Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, who was awarded an OBE for his services to education in 1989. “She lives in the States but when she visits us she always spends some time…