Author: Rhys Gregory

Green Man, Wales’ largest music, science and arts festival, has sold all of its tickets for the 2024 festival in just over two hours, breaking its record sales last year. Now in its 22nd year, it is the first 2024 UK festival to have sold out in record time, without releasing its line-up. Tickets to the 25,000 capacity a day festival tickets went on sale at 10am on Saturday (30th September) and promptly sold out just after midday. The 2024 festival takes place from 15th to 18th August 2024 in the Black Mountains, Bannau Brycheiniog National Park in Wales. Fiona…

Stars of the stage and small screen will be joining the cast of the award-winning Bonnie & Clyde The Musical when it embarks on its first-ever UK and Ireland tour, bringing hell-raising thrills to Wales Millennium Centre next spring.   Coronation Street and Strictly Come Dancing star Catherine Tyldesley will be making her musical theatre debut in the role of Blanche Barrow. Alex James-Hatton (star of Heathers and Newsies) will be playing the role of Clyde Barrow. After wowing audiences in the West End and International Tour of Bat Out of Hell, Katie Tonkinson will play Bonnie Parker.    They will be…

Hay Festival Winter Weekend brings writers and readers together for a year-end wonderland of in-person events, 23–26 November. Over four days, more than 70 acclaimed writers and performers take part in over 60 events, launching the best new fiction and non-fiction, offering creative solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time, and spreading festive joy in conversations, candle-lit storytelling, comedy, music, and workshops. Now in its 24th year, events will take place in a new 350-seater marquee in the grounds of Hay Castle, tripling the event’s previous capacity. Additional events will also take place in the Castle’s Clore…

Between sea and mountain in north Pembrokeshire, Wales’s largest youth organisation, Urdd Gobaith Cymru is celebrating the opening of its fourth Residential Centre. The first of its kind in Wales, Pentre Ifan Environmental and Wellbeing Residential Centre will prioritise the environment, the emotional wellbeing of young people and the Welsh language in one magical residential experience. Digital detox retreat Pentre Ifan Residential Centre will be a digital detox retreat for 8,000 youngsters annually, and a place for them to prioritise their wellbeing, connect with the environment, and experience a more sustainable lifestyle. The idea behind the development came following a…

A pre-inquest review hearing (PIR) regarding the death of Dylan Cope will be held at Gwent Coroner’s Court, Civic Centre, Newport, NP20 4UR on Wednesday, 4 October at 2pm. Nine-year-old Dylan died on 14 December 2022 after being diagnosed with a ruptured appendix and sepsis. Dylan attended A&E at Grange University Hospital, Cwmbran, on 6 December on referral of his GP for suspected appendicitis. He was treated with Ibuprofen and discharged at 1.15am on 7 December with a cough and cold advice sheet. His condition did not improve and, on 10 December 2022, his father, Laurence Cope rang the emergency…

A new contractor has been appointed to complete unfinished work at Swansea’s Copr Bay district. Swansea Council’s appointment of Willmott Dixon follows the original contactor for the scheme – Buckingham Group Ltd – going into administration. The financial arrangements put in place by the council means it’s not envisaged there will be any extra costs to the authority or council taxpayers. Willmott Dixon will be looking to hire supply chain partners shortly, with as many as possible recruited locally. The Copr Bay scheme stretches from the area of the former St David’s Shopping Centre and across the new bridge over…

Thirteen Cardiff households will shortly be calling a new housing development in the east of the city home, after the properties were handed over to the council today. DeveloperJ G Hale Construction has built the 13 new council homes, a mixof two, three and four-bedroom family homes on the site of the former enterprise centre on Wakehurst Place in St Mellons. The new houses, known now asFfos y Faendre,will be allocated to families on the city’s housing waiting list. But before they receive the keys, Council Leader, Huw Thomas and Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities, Cllr Lynda Thorne, visited…

A new age-friendly website has been launched in Cardiff, to coincide with the annual United Nations International Day of Older Persons (October 1). A special two-day celebration kicked off at Central Library Hub with the unveiling of the Age Friendly Cardiff website https://agefriendlycardiff.co.uk – a one-stop shop of useful information and resources to support older people living in the city. Age Friendly Cardiff is a network of organisations including Cardiff Council, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, South Wales Police, third sector partners and other services, dedicated to making the city a better place for…

The Welsh Government Minister for Local Government and Finance visited Ty Penallta last week week to find out more about the ‘Mobilising Team Caerphilly’ programme. Rebecca Evans MS was joined by the Leader and Chief Executive as she took time out of her busy schedule to discover how CCBC plans to improve and transform services in future. The Minister had the opportunity to speak to programme leads and gain a clear understanding about the emerging themes and proposals that will change the way in which the council operates as we rethink and reshape the way we deliver our services to…

Over recent months the Council has received increasing complaints of horses straying onto the public highway, residential areas, schools, and footpaths. Straying horses present a risk to the public, especially in and around school and playground settings and places where the welfare of the animal at risk. The council said: “Whilst we appreciate, on occasion, gates may be left open by land users, leading to horses straying, our priority is to protect residents.” Therefore, moving forward, the Council will seize any straying horses using the powers under the Control of Horses (Wales) Act 2014. Once seized the owners will have…