Author: Rhys Gregory

Residents in Ceredigion are to benefit from a shared use path, following funding from Welsh Government Active Travel Fund Grant. Transport for Wales (TfW) which administers the Active Travel Fund Grant on behalf of the Welsh Government, has awarded Ceredigion County Council nearly £1.5 million for construction of the first phase of a new shared use path for pedestrians and cyclists which will help to further connect Aberystwyth with nearby settlements of Comins Coch, and following future phase, with Penrhyncoch and Bow Street. Councillor Keith Henson, Cabinet Member for Highways and Environmental Services and Carbon Management, said: “I am delighted…

The new-look Bolesworth International has been a massive hit with visitors since doors opened on Wednesday. And there is still plenty left to enjoy before the unmissable five-day event ends this Sunday evening. Crowds flocked to the 6,000-acre Tattenhall estate – on the border of North Wales and Cheshire – and enjoyed a busy timetable of international equestrian competitions and lifestyle attractions with special guests including broadcaster, author and journalist Louise Minchin, Ernst and Young tax leader Victoria Price, and Wrexham AFC CEO Fleur Robinson, who fronted a sold-out Women in Business lunch and Q&A presented by HM3 Legal yesterday…

Plans for an upgrade of Cardiff’s Pentwyn Leisure Centre have been revealed by Cardiff Council. The scheme would see the centre benefit from: A new 20m x 8m pool, heated by a ground source heat pump. A new cafeteria. A new fitness gym on the ground floor. A new full-sized 3G pitch and mini pitch. A refurbished family-changing facility. A new hall and external space which could be leased to a third partner – potentially to create an area for padel tennis on site. Roof mounted solar panels. Cardiff Council’s Cabinet will consider the proposals in a report on Thursday,…

Harry Styles will be performing at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on June 20 and June 21, and a full city centre road closure will be in place by 12 noon. The earlier road closure time is due to the number of people that we are expecting to queue at the gates to the stadium early in the day which impacts the safety of the surrounding highway network. Castle Street and Duke Street will remain open until 4pm, to allow through flow of traffic. The M4 motorway and surrounding Trunk Road Network is expected to be very busy for this event -…

The future of popular independent Cardiff bar and music venue Porter’s, which also hosts Cardiff’s pub theatre The Other Room, is finally secure, with a 20-year lease now agreed and signed for a bigger venue, spread across three floors, at the top end of Barrack Lane. Expected to open just after the summer following extensive renovation works, the new venue aims to maintain the character and ethos of the original Porter’s – but in the words of owner Dan Porter, “do it better.” It was March 2021 when the news broke that the venue would have to leave its current…

A popular tennis scheme which has boosted the number of people taking up the sport in the Cardiff suburb of Heath, and which would see significant sums of money invested into local tennis courts, could be rolled out to six other parks across the city. Tennis Wales, the governing body for Tennis in Wales, has approached Cardiff Council with a plan which could see £750,000 invested in 29 of the city’s tennis courts. If agreed, residents would also benefit from opportunities to get involved in tennis through affordable and free tennis programmes, and activities run by local coaches. The offer…

Bridgend County Borough Council is advising residents to follow some simple rules to help prevent the spread of fires this summer, and to make sure that any suspicious activities are reported to the authorities. The advice has been issued following a hillside fire above Pontycymmer in the Garw Valley which has been burning for several days – one of six blazes that crews from South Wales Fire and Rescue are currently dealing with. Figures released by South Wales Fire and Rescue have revealed that since 1 April, they have already responded to more than 400 grassfires and wildfires which have…

Roads in Swansea, damaged by winter weather, are getting more investment to help repair them. Swansea Council’s Highways Maintenance Teams have been working hard to repair thousands of potholes since the beginning of the 2023, as well as completing larger resurfacing schemes. The city’s roads suffered widespread damage as a result of a wet and cold winter period in the early part of the year. In March, the Council approved £3.468 million to help fund highways and infrastructure improvements. This week, plans have been approved to invest a further £2million in 2023/24 to help with the repairs. £1million is being…

More safe walking and cycling routes are on the way to Swansea after the city received a multi-million pound boost. Swansea Council has been awarded £5,367,000 of funding from the Welsh Government to develop a number of new routes across the city, helping to connect more communities with sustainable transport routes. New routes set to be created, include a route across Clyne Common, a new route in the north of the Morriston community – creating a safe walking and cycling route to and from the Riverside Holiday Park, improvements to the existing route between Kingsbridge and Grovesend, as well as…

THREE Neath Port Talbot Council building projects have been shortlisted in the prestigious Construction Excellence in Wales Awards being held at the Celtic Manor Hotel on Friday, June 16th, 2023. The three projects include the building of the replacement Cefn Saeson Comprehensive School in Cimla, Neath – this project is up for two awards. The other two are the successful conversion of Port Talbot’s Grade II listed Plaza Cinema into a community hub, business centre and gym and the development of the Harbourside Strategic Employment site in Port Talbot’s docklands. Work on the Harbourside site has included remediation of former…