Author: Rhys Gregory

This spring – April and May – Wrexham are set to welcome three national and international tennis competitions, supported by free tennis ‘give it a go’ events for the local community. The Tennis Europe Junior Tour – taking place at Wrexham Tennis Centre (1st – 8th of April) – is the first of three international tennis events taking place in the city. Expecting to host over 600 players from across the globe, Wrexham represents the Welsh leg of the Europe-wide event series. Now in its 33rd year, the Junior Tour has become the tournament of choice for the launch of…

The Welsh Contact Centre Forum has unveiled a re-brand to reflect the evolution of its members – which have historically been Wales’ vast range of contact centres – and now represents a far more diverse range of 350 Welsh companies. The Welsh Contact Centre Forum (WCCF) – now CNECT Wales – is a not-for-profit membership organisation which has supported and represented pan-industry contact centres for 19 years, through services from training and education to research and advice. Contact centres contribute £650m annually to the Welsh economy and from telephony to chat-bots, email to artificial intelligence (AI), they have adapted significantly,…

Wales based energy tech company Sero has secured a contract with one of England’s largest housing associations in the retrofitting of 1000 homes across the South of England after Sovereign was awarded £9.4m from the Social Housing Decarbonisation Wave 2.1(SHDF). Founded with the mission to enable Net Zero homes at scale and pace, B-Corp company Sero, based in Cardiff, has been at the forefront of the Optimised Retrofit programme in Wales, since 2020. It provides expert services and technology for the end-to-end support for planning, implementing and operation of homes in their Pathway to Zero. Sero’s collaboration with Sovereign will…

Following a smash-hit sell out at the inaugural event last month, the Bone Yard Bazaar will return to Canton’s The Bone Yard this weekend, with a bumper selection of traders on offer. Created by Helen Gorman from TwentySix in partnership with Martyn Watkins of Richkin’s Woodcraft (both permanent residents at The Bone Yard), the Bone Yard Bazaar encompasses arts & crafts stalls, street food traders, freshly baked treats and more. The full foodie trader list for this Saturday 1at April includes: TOAST – Cult brunches & coffee from permanent Bone Yard residents, TwentySix RINGO’S DIRTY DINER – ‘Banging hotdogs, beaut…

Swansea Street Food Festival is set to move to a new location following recent wet weather and water-logging of Museum Park. Swansea Street Food Festival returns this Easter for four days of food and drink fuelled fun! Over Easter Weekend, from Friday 7th – Monday 10th April 2023, 30 top street food traders from across Wales and the UK will be cooking up some stunning food for visitors. This year they’ve got more traders than ever before and are planning to add an entertainment stage with live music and fun for all the family! Swansea Street Food Festival is now…

Welsh Katherine Jenkins OBE has announced the launch of Cygnet. Having discovered a little-known Welsh spirit in 2021, and realising it was being made six miles down the road from where she grew up in Neath, Katherine was inspired to create her own range of premium spirits, crafted in her home country of Wales. The Cygnet range includes a repackaged and refined version of Cygnet Welsh Dry Gin, which allowed Katherine to apply her strong commitment to quality and sustainability. Katherine’s own personal gin expression progressed further with the launch of Cygnet 22. The Cygnet name is inspired by a…

Employees at Aston Martin’s St Athan facility received a boost when Welsh rugby legend and co-founder of FabFour Coffee, Shane Williams OBE, dropped in for a meet & greet to celebrate his coffee being selected by the iconic ultra-luxury brand. Now served at Aston Martin’s manufacturing site in the Vale of Glamorgan, Williams founded FabFour Coffee with former Wales and British & Irish Lions players Mike Philips, James Hook and Lee Byrne, with three goals in mind: to create great tasting coffee, to keep their long-standing friendship intact and to make a contribution to the Velindre Cancer Centre, known as…

The Kia Sportage is blazing a trail as the latest recruit to join Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service. Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service (MAWWFRS) is responsible for providing public safety information, prevention and protection programmes, and emergency response for mid and west Wales, covering nearly 12,000 square kilometers – almost two-thirds of Wales.  With 58 stations across six counties, MAWWFRS attends around 255 incidents weekly on average. The five Kia Sportage PHEV ‘GT-Line’ in eye-catching infra-red paint, were bought from business specialist Gravells Kia Bridgend.  As part of the selection process, a number of…

Working in partnership with Glamorgan Hedgehog Rescue, Bridgend County Borough Council is in the process of identifying suitable local nature reserves where hedgehogs can be released safely. The nature reserves are being assessed according to the quality, variety, size and safety of the habitats that they offer.  Before any hedgehogs are released at any of the given sites, they will be deemed as free of disease, fit and healthy.  They will also have been originally rescued from the area surrounding the reserve. https://twitter.com/BridgendCBC/status/1641364648103649280 This partnership between the council and the Glamorgan Hedgehog Rescue, forms part of the Cwm Taf Nature…

With Easter on the Horizon, the Times Newspaper has named Margam Country Park’s adventure playground as one of the best in the UK. The newspaper has honoured it as one of Britain’s seven best adventure playgrounds alongside the likes of Wildplay at Keswick, Cumbria, Lilidorei (the world’s largest play structure) in the grounds of Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, and Tudor Towers in Kent. The Times says of the Neath Port Talbot attraction (best for children aged six to 12): “A mini castle with a watchtower and a huge slide are the standouts at this adventure playground, while younger children will fall…