Author: Rhys Gregory

The Football Association of Wales has announced that it has received confirmation from UEFA that Professor Laura McAllister is standing unopposed to join the UEFA Executive Committee as its designated female member. It was revealed that Laura McAllister’s candidacy for the female member post on the UEFA Executive Committee is unopposed after the deadline for nominations passed on 5 February. The ballot for the Executive Committee positions will be held on 5April at the UEFA congress in Lisbon where it is anticipated that Laura will be officially elected to the position on the board. Noel Mooney, FAW Chief Executive, said:…

St David’s Dewi Sant Cardiff has launched a new Community Collection Bank for guests to donate food and hygiene products to those in need.   The new St David’s drop-off point will support Cardiff Foodbank and has been unveiled at the city shopping centre. The St David’s Community Collection Bank is located at the Guest Services point on the Upper Level of the Grand Arcade, close to Starbucks, Berskha and Stradivarius, during the centre’s opening hours.   Hygiene items which can be donated include period products, soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes and hairbrushes. Food produce for donation ranges from tins and…

Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) has invested £2m in Apex Additive Technologies, opening up the huge potential of creating a digital manufacturing centre of excellence in the northern Valleys of South East Wales.  The Industry 4.0 Digital Manufacturing expertise of Ebbw Vale-based Apex brings the opportunity to make a truly disruptive impact across all sectors in Welsh manufacturing – with the company also serving as a sustainable talent pipeline of highly skilled local employees, able to deliver green, cost-effective and highly innovative manufacturing solutions to national and global markets. Youssef Beshay, Founder and CEO of Apex Additive Technologies, explained why Ebbw…

Communities and places, local businesses and people and skills throughout Swansea will soon benefit from a £38.4m boost. The Shared Prosperity Fund is one of the UK Government funds replacing European funds that are no longer available after Brexit. It’s also part of the UK Government’s levelling-up agenda. Now approved by Swansea Council’s Cabinet, anchor projects in Swansea will include: A package of schemes to support Swansea businesses including start-up grants, growth grants, carbon reduction grants, training for businesses to move towards net zero carbon, and a commercial property development fund A pathways to work employability project that will include…

UK-based adventure company Zip World will soon be flying high above Rhyl, with the introduction of their 23rd adventure, Skyflyer. Located at the Zip World Rhyl site along the beachfront, the flagship attraction airship will be the ultimate sight-seeing adventure. Set to launch to the public from 11th March 2023, visitors will be elevated 400ft in the air to soak up panoramic views of the stunning north Wales coast, Liverpool, the Isle of Man and beyond. The blimp-like aerostat is the latest ground-breaking innovation in the arena of adventure activity attractions and is a UK-exclusive.  The attraction has been designed to…

Rebecca Thomas, final year MA Music Therapy student at University of South Wales (USW), has been on work placement at Capel Grange nursing home in Newport. When Rebecca presented at a recent ‘Our Voice, Our Choice, Our City – participatory budgeting voting event’, not only did she help to secure the nursing home’s funding bid, a member of the audience also felt compelled to discuss further financial support for the project. Working with residents of the Linc Cymru owned nursing home, Rebecca designs, one-to-one and group, music therapy sessions. “Every session has a different aim,” she said. “With one group,…

A British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey of more than 1,000 businesses, of which 96% are SMEs, has found that nine out of 10 don’t fully understand what the Government’s target of making the UK net zero by 2050 means for them. Net zero is a commitment to ensure a balance between greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and those removed from it. Businesses can work towards net zero by reducing the emissions that a company makes directly, indirectly and the emissions associated through its supply chain. Both the UK and Welsh governments have set targets to achieve net zero…

Persimmon is opening the door to home ownership for more families in Newport with the launch of a new site in Llanwern. The housebuilder was joined by representatives from St. Modwen and Pobl Group to mark the recent release of 178 new quality homes for local people at its Springfield Meadows development @ Glan Llyn. Persimmon has partnered with Pobl at the Newport site in a move which will see the delivery of 18 new homes for the purposes of social housing. Glan Llyn – the £1bn major regeneration project being overseen by St. Modwen – continues to transform the…

RSPCA Cymru has launched an appeal for information after three ponies were removed from common land at Gelligaer due to concerns for their welfare. Officers from the animal welfare charity worked in partnership with Caerphilly County Borough Council, Redwings, World Horse Welfare and The British Horse Society to help the ponies on Tuesday morning (14 February). On veterinary advice, a skewbald mare, a skewbald yearling filly and a chestnut colt foal were removed from the common. The ponies were not microchipped. RSPCA inspector Suzi Smith said: “We are appealing for information to try and track down who these ponies belong…

The Secretary of State for Wales, David TC Davies, visited Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Llandaff campus to see first-hand the institution’s world leading research and innovation programmes, including robotics labs and food sensory analysis suites. Mr Davies met with Professor Cara Aitchison, Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff Met, and was given a tour of the university’s School of Technologies, School of Art & Design and Food Innovation Centre. The Secretary of State’s tour included a visit to the School of Technologies’ Eureka Robotics Lab, an innovative research hub which specialises in Service and Social Humanoid Robotics. The Centre is renowned for its use…