Author: Rhys Gregory

Roger Devlin, Chairman of Persimmon Homes, addressed Cardiff Business Club in the Club’s latest event. In the event at Sophia Gardens on May 25, Roger spoke about Persimmon’s position as the leading housebuilder in South Wales, which has seen the company build over 5,000 new homes in Wales over the past five years. This work has supported nearly 20,000 jobs in the Welsh economy through direct construction roles and associated supply chains. During the same period, the financial contributions to local authorities have totalled in the tens of millions through s106 agreements, the Community Infrastructure Levy, and the creation of…

Leading South Wales taxi and private hire firm Dragon Taxis is supporting Whitchurch Heath Cricket Club as its match ball sponsor for the 2023 season. Whitchurch Heath has four Senior league sides and a thriving youth section that runs teams at ages under nine, 11, 13 and 15. They are dedicated to playing competitive cricket in a welcoming, inclusive and social atmosphere in the North Cardiff suburb. Dragon Taxis, a regional brand of the UK’s fastest-growing taxi and private hire technology platform Veezu, is sponsoring the club for the second year and is helping with financial support to fund day-to-day…

Free weekly multi-sport sessions for children aged between five and seven are being offered in Haverfordwest from Thursday 8th June to Thursday 13thJuly. Run by Sport Pembrokeshire, the multi-sport sessions give children a chance to try a wide variety of sports, from football and tennis to golf, gymnastics, wheelchair basketball, soft darts and more! Some of the many positive comments from parents whose children have participated include: ‘My daughter has really enjoyed herself and now enrolled in dance, gymnastics and swimming. Thank you for all the opportunities that you have made possible’ and ‘I just wanted to thank you for…

Residents are invited to attend a community event in Mountain Ash to find out more about a proposed new development which supports residential dementia care and extra care accommodation, planned for the former Pavilion site at Darran Road. The proposed scheme would be jointly delivered with Linc Cymru (Linc), as part of the £60m care accommodation modernisation agreed in February 2023, which is on top of the £50m extra care investment agreed in 2017 to increase the number of extra care beds in Rhondda Cynon Taf to 300. To date, 100 extra care beds have since been created across new…

Newport City Council has announced that the first phase of its new three-weekly bin collection schedule will start from Monday 19 June. The new schedule will see household rubbish bins and garden waste bins be collected once every three weeks. Currently these are collected once every two weeks. Around 12,100 households across the city will move to three-weekly collections as part of the first phase. A mix of streets and a mix of households has been selected from across the city. From this week and over the next two weeks, residents whose streets have been selected for the first phase…

Welsh Minister for Education & the Welsh Language, Jeremy Miles MS, has today visited Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Helyg to see remodelling work funded by Welsh Government’s Sustainable Communities for Learning Programme. The school in Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, used funding from the Welsh Government programme to remodel the building, creating both internal and external spaces to improve the teaching and learning environment. Internally, the school repurposed their changing rooms into Sensory and Nurture spaces, along with a STEM room and a Library and Media Suite to support pupil development. Outside, the spaces were transformed into teaching areas with canopies, tarmarced areas…

The Welsh Government will invest up to £30m to deliver more care at home or in the community and reduce the time people spend in hospitals. The Minister for Health and Social Services Eluned Morgan and Deputy Minister for Social Services Julie Morgan have set out how they will work with local government, NHS and other partners to strengthen local care services in order to help alleviate the kind of pressure on the health and care system seem this winter. Building on the 670 extra community beds delivered this winter, this new investment will improve people’s chances of living at…

Earlier this week, Finance Minister Rebecca Evans met a group of women who have trained as HGV drivers thanks to a pilot project targeting skills shortages in traditionally gendered sectors. In the last two years 19 women have completed their HGV license training through the Welsh Government-funded Personal Learning Account (PLA) programme at Coleg Sir Gȃr in Carmarthenshire. Many of those taking part in the training have retrained from previous roles to now go on and work in the haulage industry. The training is delivered by COTS Training on behalf of Coleg Sir Gar, along with other providers. Sian Morris,…

Cunard’s Queen Victoria made her ever first visit to Wales during a port call to Holyhead over the weekend (Sunday 4 June 2023). During the ship’s first call into Holyhead Port, Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Dawn Bowden will welcome the ship’s passengers and crew to Wales and will get the opportunity to see first-hand how the ship operates.  This year, Wales is set to welcome the highest number of cruise ship calls to date, with 81 ships expected to call at Welsh ports during the year. The MS Queen Victoria is one of the ships to call…

The Champions League final is just a matter of days away and excitement is starting to grow for the latest edition of football’s most prestigious match. This year’s final will see first-time title hopefuls Manchester City pitted against three-time European Cup winners Inter Milan at Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. Pep Guardiola’s side were last seen in the showpiece match in 2021 when they were stunned on their maiden final outing by Chelsea in Porto, but they are as short as 1/4 to finally achieve Sheik Mansour’s ultimate goal and lift the trophy in Turkey on June 10 according to…