Author: Rhys Gregory

Ambulance workers have been telling the Government for years things are unsafe. No one is listening, says GMB Union  More than 15,000 ambulance workers across 11 trusts in England and Wales begin voting on strike action today [Monday 24 October] Thousands more NHS workers will also be balloted across other NHS trusts, with more votes set to follow. Ambulance workers from the following trusts will take part in the vote, which closes on 29 November: EAST OF ENGLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE EAST MIDLANDS AMBULANCE SERVICE LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE NORTH EAST AMBULANCE SERVICE NORH WEST AMBULANCE SERVICE SOUTH CENTRAL AMBULANCE SERVICE SOUTH…

Denbighshire Leisure will be lighting up buildings this October in support of Breast Cancer Now’s Wear it Pink Day. Ruthin Craft Centre, Rhyl Sky Tower, Rhyl Pavilion Theatre, 1891 Restaurant and Bar and the Events Arena waterfall will all be illuminated in pink on October 21st to support this annual event. Wear It Pink day has been taking place for over 20 years and has raised over £37 million pounds for life saving research into breast cancer.  Every year around 2,600 people, including men and women, are diagnosed with breast cancer in Wales – which is approximately 7 people every…

An official limited edition Wales football gin, #TogetherStronger, has been specially created to celebrate Wales playing in the FIFA World Cup Finals for the first time since 1958. Produced by South-Wales based Hensol Castle Distillery, in collaboration with the Football Association of Wales (FAW), the Welsh dry gin has been produced to mark Wales’s national football team playing in the world’s most viewed sporting event for the first time in 64 years. Taking its name from the team mantra, Hensol Castle Distillery’s #TogetherStronger Gin uses Welsh water and Welsh botanicals to create a tipple that is bound to score with…

Science Minister Nusrat Ghani has unveiled a new £15 million fund for UK businesses to revolutionise satellite communications technology. The competition, running until next spring, is open to organisations developing ambitious technologies across the satellite communications ecosystem. It will prioritise customer needs, support sustainable growth and catalyse further investment into the UK space sector, which already employs 47,000 people. Ideas can focus on creating entire new satellite constellations, ground systems, or delivering new services to customers, and will be funded through the UK Space Agency’s leading role in the European Space Agency (ESA) Advanced Research in Telecommunications Services (ARTES) programme.…

A WREXHAM builder is preparing to run a gruelling 250km over five days to raise money for a charity that supports people with their mental health. Shane Crawford, 24, a site manager for Anwyl Homes, will set off on the ‘ultra-marathon’ on November 2 in a group of 25 runners. The challenge involves running an average of 50km a day (31 miles) on planned routes around Bath, Somerset, returning to their base each evening to camp overnight. Shane and his fellow ultra-runners are all raising money and awareness for Wales-based charity bigmoose, who provide support to people around mental health,…

Wales’ biggest festive light trail is back and bigger than ever this winter – with a specially composed soundtrack and a UK premiere in cutting-edge lighting design as its grand finale. Visitors to Christmas at Bute Park 2022 will be the first in Britain to see the brand new iridescent light orb experience ‘Prismatic’, designed by one of the UK’s foremost lighting designers, DBN Audile. It is among a host of new installations being introduced in the event’s second year, alongside a magical ‘Light Canyon’ awash with a thousand mesmerising stars, a lake of light created by hypnotic lasers to…

Over £3.1m – that’s how much has been paid to families across Swansea in recent weeks as part of a scheme to help people heat their homes this winter. Funded by the Welsh Government and run locally by Swansea Council, the fuel support scheme means eligible households are entitled to claim a £200 payment. Since the scheme first went live towards the end of September, the council has processed thousands of applications while also answering hundreds of daily queries by email and phone. More than 15,600 Swansea households have already been paid, with a further 6,000 applications being looked at…

Neath Port Talbot councillors have approved a Rapid Rehousing Plan which is part of a Wales-wide initiative aimed at making any homelessness “rare, brief and unrepeated”. Welsh Government published its Ending Homelessness in Wales strategy in 2021. It came after the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a crisis in homelessness and it was felt a radical change and a shift towards early preventative actions and a rapid rehousing model was needed in Wales. Welsh councils are now being asked to transform their homelessness services over the next five years in line with Welsh Government’s ambitions. Rapid Rehousing is an intervention designed…

Two Pembrokeshire footballers have helped Wales clinch a prestigious Street Football win. Tati Richards and Laura Edwards pulled on the famous red shirt at the Street Soccer Nations Cup held in Dundee. Both were key members of the women’s national side that won the tournament plate beating Sweden 4-2 in the final. Laura and Tati are representatives of the Street Football sessions based in Haverfordwest where they have developed to become the first players from Pembrokeshire to represent Wales in this fast-paced format of the game. Tati and Laura joined Street Football sessions offered by the social inclusion charity Street…

Stagecoach’s Michael Evans from the Rhondda was recently crowned UK Bus Driver of the Year 2022 – and says that meeting local people and knowing he’s making a difference to their lives is the most rewarding part of his job. Michael, who is based in the Stagecoach’s Porth depot, had worked as a car salesman for more than 30 years before changing career in 2018. He entered the prestigious competition after it was mentioned to him by one of his colleagues, and he went on to qualify for the national finals having won the local heats. The finals took place…