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City Hospice, Cardiff’s local hospice, is working with Cardiff Council to plant and maintain flower beds in popular parks across the capital. The Celebration of Life flower beds project extends the legacy of Forever Flowers, the charity’s award-winning ‘in memory’ campaign which invites supporters to purchase limited edition flowers to remember cherished family members, friends, colleagues and loved ones. The flower beds, which will bloom throughout spring and summer, aim to support communities across Cardiff with their grief and wellbeing as dedicated natural spaces for remembrance. The project is being supported by local businesses and nearby secondary schools. Following the…

A survey carried out by The Red Dragon Centre ahead of Titanic’s remastered release in 4K 3D at ODEON has answered the age-old question – Jack could have fit on the door with Rose. At least, 100% of people surveyed The Centre thought so. Interestingly, despite the tragic and frustrating ending, 80% still classed Titanic as a romantic film and they all want to see it again when it returns to the big screen. With 30% of respondents having seen the original in The Red Dragon Centre on its release 25 years ago, the same year the Centre opened its…

Work has started on the first development of sustainable homes funded by the Development Bank of Wales’ discounted Green Homes Incentive. A £1.2 million property development loan for Cardiff-based Wellspring Homes is being used to part-fund the build of eight sustainable homes at Pearson Way, Neath. Just minutes from the M4 corridor, the development will offer four 4-bedroom detached family homes alongside four 2-bedroom semi-detached properties. With an A Grade energy rating, all will be fitted with air source heat pumps and will be built using Hempcrete, a natural “better-than-zero-carbon” material. As a breathable material made from a mixture of…

A major event that provides a shop window for food and drink producers is defying the economic downturn with a bumper 120 trade stands – over 40% up on last year. More than 1,000 products will be on show at the two-day Harlech Foodservice Expo that gets underway at Venue Cymru in Llandudno on St David’s Day. It’s a highlight in the calendar for the high profile food wholesaler which celebrated its 50th birthday last year and which supplies everything from restaurants and cafes to Premiership giants. Many of the exhibitors will be doing their own live cookery demonstrations and…

A man who assaulted another man near The Arch nightclub in Neath on 15th July 2022 has been sentenced to life in prison, with 18 years minimum term, for murder. Daniel Pickering, aged 34, appeared at Swansea Crown Court on Monday 13th February, where he was sentenced for the murder of Matthew Thomas, aged 47 from Neath. Senior Investigating Officer DCI Mark Lewis said: “Daniel Pickering’s violent attack on Matthew was senseless and unprovoked and is another example of how the over consumption of alcohol and Class A drugs stimulates aggressive behaviour – resulting in tragic consequences for innocent victims…

A 91-year-old retired dairy farmer from North Wales is back on his tractor and enjoying five mile hikes after undergoing pioneering robotic surgery. Great-grandfather Owen John Thomas, from Holyhead, Anglesey, was one of the first patients to have a knee replaced using the ROSA® Knee (RObotic Surgical Assistant) system at the private Spire Murrayfield hospital, Wirral, carried out by consultant hip and knee surgeon Mr Muthu Ganapathi, from Colwyn Bay. The hospital is the first in the Wirral and Liverpool area to offer the cutting-edge robotic technology which helps surgeons plan and perform personalised bone cuts so they can fit…

A £500,000 appeal has been launched to save one of Wales’s most famous hotels and transform it into a community enterprise. The Owain Glyndwr Hotel – site of the first National Eisteddfod – stands on Corwen’s London Road, the historic A5 from London to Holyhead, which has carried Roman Legions, horse-drawn mail coaches, Irish MPs and holidaymakers for almost 2,000 years. The Corwen Partnership has been formed to raise enough money from a share issue to buy the Grade Two-listed building in the town centre and invest a further £200,000 in updating the property. In a race against time they…

One of North Wales’s longest-established law firms has just recruited four new legal eagles as it continues to expand. Swayne Johnson, which has a base in St Asaph and offices across North Wales and into Cheshire, can trace its origins back to the beginning of the 19th century but is also one of the fastest growing firms of solicitors in the region. It is also notable for the number of women it employs among a staff of over 50 from Managing Director Sarah Noton down and for the breadth of its legal expertise which include two of only three Court…

More babies in Wales will benefit from the arrival of a new electric vehicle to support donor milk collections. Last year Swansea University and Swansea Bay University Health Board announced a partnership with the Human Milk Foundation that saw a donor milk hub set up in Wales for the first time. The hub, located in Swansea’s Singleton Hospital, allows more sick and premature babies in the region to receive donor milk in neonatal intensive care units, and enables local women to donate their surplus milk, many of whom have not been able to do so previously. Now the service is…