Author: Rhys Gregory

Get Jerky Rally North Wales has launched its 2026 event this week, announcing a new look format for the Welshpool-based rally on March 28. After being forced to cancel in 2025 due to the effects of Storm Darragh in the region’s forests, the popular event will return with a re-vamped route and a host of premier rally championships using it as a counting round of their respective series. Organised by Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Car Club, the event continues to enjoy support from title sponsor Get Jerky, which ensures the rally remains in Welshpool, offering a perfect base and service…

Popular independent brunch spot Park Side Kitchen is expanding to include a brand-new Bakery & Deli at the Amber Vista development in Lakeside. The move follows the decision that Ballers Pizza – situated next door – will not reopen its restaurant doors this February, after a short period of closure at the beginning of this year. In its place, Park Side Bakery & Deli will bake fresh breads, pastries and cakes on site to supply both the Lakeside venue, and Park Side’s original location in Heath. Meanwhile, the Ballers brand will live on in pop-ups and events best suited to capture…

Cardiff’s home-grown family-friendly festival, Depot in the Castle (DITC), will return to the iconic grounds of Cardiff Castle on Saturday 25th July 2026. Today the full line-up has been announced with pop icons Sugababes joining indie heavyweights The Wombats for a huge all-day celebration of live music, street food and summer fun. First hitting the charts in 2000 with Overload the Sugababes boast an undeniable back catalogue of smash hits, including Round Round, Freak Like Me and Push The Button. Now fresh from their biggest UK arena tour to date and a run of new releases including When The Rain…

Construction workloads in Wales fell through the final quarter of 2025, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Construction Monitor, but surveyors are optimistic that workloads will pick up over the next year. A net balance of -13% of survey respondents in Wales reported a fall in overall construction activity in Q4, which is the lowest this balance has been in two years, and the second consecutive quarter this balance has been in negative territory. All subsectors saw declines in activity: private housing (a net balance of -8%), other public works (a net balance of -8%), private…

No single tool can accurately measure people’s diets, but new research shows that combining different methods — from wearable cameras to analysing dietary biomarkers — could be the most reliable picture of what people eat. In a review published in ‘Nature Food’, an international team of scientists highlights long‑standing problems with traditional self‑reported dietary tools, which often rely on memory and guesswork and place a heavy time burden on participants. These limitations make it difficult for researchers and policymakers to reliably link diet with health outcomes, and to understand how diets are changing in response to global sustainability challenges. The…

Opening at Wales Millennium Centre on 1 March, Haunts is a brand-new Virtual Reality experience celebrating the Welsh party scene, set to take audiences on a nostalgic journey back to 2006 – twenty years on. The bilingual experience has been made possible with The Heritage Lottery Fund and is a Wales Millennium Centre, Pilot Theatre and Dreaming Methods co-production in collaboration with The National Library of Wales and The Museum of Youth Culture.  Narrated by Welsh star, Callum Scott-Howells (It’s a Sin), in English and Steffan Donnelly (Theatr Cymru) in Welsh, audiences are transported to Llanberis, a rural former slate…

It’s 2016 and Wales is making history. The Welsh men’s football team is about to reach the semi-finals of the European championships, Little Haven beach in Pembrokeshire becomes the first smoke-free beach in the UK, and the country appoints a Future Generations Commissioner. Wales is the only country in the world with this statutory role, dedicated to protecting the interests of people not yet born. Ten years later, as more than 220,000 babies have been born in Wales, the role, established by the Well-being of Future Generations Act, has influenced policy across education, transport, the economy, health and climate action…

A 32-year-old man who burgled a school and a home in Wrexham has been jailed. Stephen Lee Jones, also known as ‘Skell’, of no fixed abode, appeared at Mold Crown Court on 29 January for sentencing. He admitted two counts of burglary, theft from a car and assault. He was jailed for two years and eight months. On 10 December last year, Jones broke into St Christopher’s School in Wrexham, where he tore through cupboards, broke multiple desks and stole an ipad. A number of blood stains left around the room linked Jones to the crime. Earlier that morning, he…

Swansea Council has released key details from a recent meeting with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and the Ospreys where they outlined proposals on the future of regional rugby in Wales. The Council has also issued pre‑action legal letters to the WRU and Y11, owners of the Ospreys, calling for an immediate pause to the current restructure of Welsh rugby. The meeting took place on 22 January 2026 between the Leader of Swansea Council, five senior council officers, WRU Chief Executive Abi Tierney, and Ospreys Chief Executive Lance Bradley, following a request from Mr Bradley. While the Council had intended…

Cabinet Members have approved proposals for the Council to acquire residential properties at Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl that face a severe flood risk. It follows several instances of major flooding, a previous announcement by Natural Resources Wales that possible flood risk solutions are unviable, and a subsequent period of engagement with property owners and tenants. A report to Cabinet on Monday, February 2, recommended that Members authorise the acquisition of 1-16 Clydach Terrace (excluding 6a and 6b that are built at an elevated position and do not face a significant flood risk). It was also recommended that officers are authorised…