Author: Rhys Gregory

Long-standing Cardiff entertainment venue, The Red Dragon Centre, is hosting a charity fun day to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital and St John Ambulance Cymru. Taking place on Saturday 9 September, National Emergency Services Day, guests of all ages can take part in fun, educational activities hosted by South Wales Police and St Johns Ambulance Cymru. Activities will take place between 11am – 4.30pm throughout the Centre and will include CPR and first aid training sessions, visits from police vehicles and wellbeing dogs, fingerprinting activities and more. Everyone’s favourite yellow characters will also be roaming the Centre in…

One of Cardiff’s newest primary schools has opened its doors for the very first time this week, as staff and pupils arrived for the start of term at the brand-new Ysgol Gynradd Groes-wen Primary School at Plasdŵr. The £9million primary school is the first of its kind for Cardiff and for Wales, providing a dual language stream and a Welsh-medium stream.  The dual language stream will consist of 50% Welsh and 50% English, known as a 50/50 split.  In addition, there is a 96 part-time nursery provision which is supported by a Clych Meithrin to offer wrap around provision. The…

To be honest, the frustration of breaking or losing your prescription glasses takes a serious toll. Who wants to deal with blurry vision accompanied by unwanted headaches and eye strain? Well, no one! Thanks to the same-day glasses services provided by the majority of the eyewear brands, you no longer need to wait for days to receive them. The optical world has taken a step toward a visionary revolution, thus making it extremely smooth and convenient for all the glass buyers out there. In this blog, we will discuss some of the benefits of same-day glasses services and how it…

Head coach Warren Gatland has named his Wales senior men’s XV to play Fiji at Stade de Bordeaux in their opening pool C match of Rugby World Cup 2023 (Sunday 10 September 8pm BST / 9pm local time live on ITV and S4C). Wales arrived in Bordeaux from their team base in Versailles this afternoon ahead of the weekend’s fixture. The starting line-up includes five players making their Rugby World Cup debuts. A further five players are in line to make their first World Cup appearance from the bench. Jac Morgan captains the side at openside flanker. He is joined…

St David’s Hall is to temporarily close to the public to undertake additional checks on the Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) panels in the building. The decision has been taken in light of the recent change to advice on RAAC in public buildings issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and following further discussions with the Council’s appointed independent structural engineers, and the council’s insurers. The council has said they have been aware of RAAC in St David’s Hall and the need to manage it from a health and safety viewpoint since 2021, and it has always followed government…

A much-loved former Cardiff pub – the Rompney Castle – could now be saved from the threat of demolition after Cardiff Council stepped in to prevent it being knocked down. The Rompney has been a landmark in the Rumney area of the city since the 1870s and last year a developer’s plan to demolish the building and redevelop the site was rejected by Cardiff Council’s planning department on grounds that the development would result in the loss of an historic building that is of considerable significance to the local community. However, the developer returned in July this year with a…

Tesla have become the dominant EV brand, but they’re facing fresh competition Since the launch of the Tesla Model 3 in 2019 the American manufacturer have become one of the most popular brands not only in the UK but worldwide. Landing on these shores with much anticipation, it could be argued that it was the Model 3’s arrival that really kick-started the EV revolution in the UK. Available on hugely affordable Tesla lease deals, it didn’t take long for them to become one of the best-selling electric cars on the market. Tesla followed that up with the equally successful Model…

First Minister Mark Drakeford today (Thursday, September 7) visited one of the first areas in Wales to trial the new 20mph limit to learn more about the impact of the “biggest step-change in community safety in a generation.” With just 10 days to go before the default 20mph speed limit will be introduced across Wales, the First Minister met business owners, parents and school children in St Brides Major, in the Vale of Glamorgan. Wales will become the first part of the UK to introduce a nationwide 20mph speed limit as most residential roads, which currently have a 30mph speed…

Success! RSPCA Cymru has welcomed news that two additional councils in Wales have banned the giving out of pets as prizes on their land. Bans by Swansea Council and Carmarthenshire County Council have taken the total number of local authorities in Wales who have taken action to 14 out of 22. As part of its #NoFunAtTheFair campaign, the animal welfare charity is calling on the outdated practice to be banned – and has been campaigning for all councils in Wales to introduce their own local bans on their land. So far since its 2023 June launch – 11,351 people have…

An ambitious plan to deliver 10,000 new sustainable homes across South Wales in a decade by the country’s largest social housing provider, Pobl Group, has been boosted by a £100 million sustainability linked loan from Lloyds Bank. Development is planned all along the South Wales M4 corridor, from Newport and Monmouthshire in the east to Swansea and Pembrokeshire in the West. The not-for-profit organisation aims for 95% of the new homes it develops over the next four years to have an EPC B rating or above, while delivering close to 1,000 homes which meet EPC A standards. Pobl Group is…