Author: Rhys Gregory

Ahead of its official launch next month, Fishguard Festival of Music has announced that some of the finest Celtic musicians on the music circuit have confirmed their attendance at this year’s festival.    Welsh Harpist Catrin Finch and Ireland’s fiddle virtuoso Aoife Ní Bhriain, will perform music from their acclaimed debut album at a concert in Bethel Chapel, Fishguard on Wednesday 31 July.    Dublin native Aoife Ní Bhriain is one of her generation’s most versatile and gifted violinists, a dazzling musician who commands both the classical world and her Irish traditional heritage. Harpist Catrin Finch has also built an impressive…

The UK Space Agency is opening new headquarters at the Harwell Science Campus’ Space Cluster in Oxfordshire and regional offices in Scotland, Wales and the Midlands as it works to support the space sector across the UK. Aligned with the government’s Levelling Up strategy, the expansion will enable the Agency to collaborate more closely with the UK’s thriving space sector, while promoting regional skills and job opportunities to deliver increasingly ambitious missions and capabilities. The UK space sector is growing faster than the rest of the UK economy. It’s worth over £17.5 billion per year and employs over 45,000 people,…

A dad from Caerphilly will be taking on the ABP Newport Marathon in April to raise money for Tŷ Hafan. He’ll be doing so in memory of his daughter Scarlett who sadly died aged four from a condition so rare that it doesn’t have a name. She spent the first three months of her life in the Royal Gwent Hospital being genetically tested before doctors discovered she had an unbalanced translocation of chromosomes 7 and 10. Chris Thomas, who works as a power station engineer, said that Tŷ Hafan allowed him and his partner Clair to make some amazing memories…

Teen players from Welsh college netball’s champions-elect team, Coleg y Cymoedd, have taken on some of the best rising talent from South Africa in a hotly anticipated showdown. The college’s first team, Cymoedd Blacks, which is on track to win this year’s Association of Colleges (AOC) Sports Wales Netball league, took on South Africa’s renowned Trinity House Randpark Ridge squad in a friendly game yesterday. Having provided several internationals to the South African netball team, which beat Wales at last year’s Netball World Cup in Cape Town, Trinity House is widely regarded as one of the best teams in country,…

A firm foodie favourite at the Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival, Pencoed-based Lilo’s is taking it back to the beginning, celebrating not only the company’s own milestone tenth anniversary this March but also a tenth year at their very first big event. Lilo’s has come a long way from those early days, serving a small range of hot, handmade pasta dishes from a VW camper food truck – sometimes roadside to build the now loyal customer base – and among other celebrations planned, founder Chloe Evans is looking forward to marking the anniversary in style at the festival which will…

A unique opportunity to take on a 15-year farm business tenancy has become available at the picturesque Llyndy Isaf, in Nant Gwynant – with the process of selecting the tenant filmed for a TV show for a national broadcaster. Set in the heart of Eryri (Snowdonia), Llyndy Isaf, a 248-hectare (613 acre) hill farm, has been in the care of National Trust Cymru since the charity bought the farm in 2012 after a successful public appeal. Until 2020, it was run in partnership with the Wales Federation of Young Farmers Clubs (YFC) with five scholars managing the farm. Since then…

A Rhyl primary school’s F1 racing team reached the top of the podium in its very first season! Ysgol Llywelyn’s F1 in Schools squad – BAS Racing (standing for Believe, Achieve and Shine) – enjoyed pole position along with the award for Best Engineered Car at the North Wales regional finals in January. This saw them qualify for the recent UK National Finals in Rotherham, where the talented group – Cian L, Isla, Seren, Mehrnaz, Ellie and Cian D – fought off tough competition to take home the award for Sponsorship and Marketing. The competition saw participants design, make and…

The Tywi Centre has announced its highly anticipated Sustainable and Traditional Buildings Fair, set to take place on Saturday 11th May 2024 at the Tywi Centre, Dinefwr Farm in Llandeilo. From 10 am, experts, suppliers, and contractors will come together to provide essential insights and solutions for making homes more sustainable. In Wales, where 1.4 million homes consume 27% of all energy, the demand for eco-friendly home solutions has never been more critical. The Sustainable and Traditional Buildings Fair will be a free ticketed event, which aims to cut through the confusion surrounding home improvements and guide attendees through the…

Honda has a lot of pride in the Civic, and it’s justified. Honda started making Civic models in 1972, nine years after it expanded from motor-bikes into cars with the N360 and then the 1300, and Civic put the brand on the world map for automobiles. So the Civic is the company’s longest established and arguably best known model, which also spurred development of the larger Honda Accord and undoubtedly influenced many European rivals’ designs. It was produced in Swindon for two decades, ending in 2022, and the current series is assembled in Japan. Today, the Honda Civic is sold…

South Wales Police began an investigation in 2019 when a victim bravely came forward to report they had been raped by John Charles Webb. Webb, now aged 70, was arrested at his home address in Neath and as result of enquiries, two other victims were identified and provided statements. All three victims, two male and one female, were under the age of 18 at the time of the sexual assaults which happened in the 1990s while Webb was living in Cardiff. Webb was charged and faced trial at Cardiff Crown Court in December 2023. He was found guilty of all…