Author: Rhys Gregory

Staff from a leading provider of apprenticeships have raised £1,872 for Marie Curie  by virtually walking the Cambrian Way Path with support from an army of friends. Cambrian Training Company, which has offices in Welshpool, Llanelli, Builth Wells, Holyhead and Colwyn Bay, launched its 60 Days Across the Cambrian Way fundraising challenge in August last year. The company encouraged individuals, families, businesses, organisations and sports clubs to join staff in covering the 291-mile distance of the Cambrian Way Path virtually in 60 days. Individuals took on the challenge alone and by splitting the distance with a team or with family…

A BARRY opticians has expanded its offering to the local community following a relocation worth more than £500,000 – and its staff have celebrated with a fundraising party. Specsavers has officially relocated to the former HSBC building at 85 Holton Road, just across from its previous home – more than tripling the store’s footprint. The new-look, two-story store has seven test rooms, up from four, and offers twice the number of audiology clinics. And five new jobs have been created as part of the expansion. The relocation comes as Specsavers celebrates 20 years of service to the Barry community, and…

Green Man Festival, Wales’ largest music, science and cultural festival which celebrated its 20th year this August, is the first 2023 UK festival to have sold out in a record time of just four hours. The 25,000 capacity a day festival tickets went on sale at 10am yesterday (29th September). By 2pm in the afternoon, all tickets had been sold – a record time for the festival, which sold out in three days last year. That the tickets have sold so quickly before any line up announcement has been announced illustrates the incredible trust in the Green Man by its…

Statistics for April to June 2022 show there were 33,234 divorce applications, the highest number of applications in a decade. “We are pleased that this crucial ‘no-fault’ divorce legislation is now in force and being used, so that separating couples can divorce as amicably as possible,” said Law Society of England and Wales president I. Stephanie Boyce “Separating couples don’t have to prove a fault-based fact against their ex-partner, or spend years still married to obtain a divorce, exacerbating tensions.” Under the new legislation, separating couples can now file a joint application for divorce. Figures show that 78% of the…

RUSSELL Edwards, the man who has spent the last seven years investigating and trying to find the grave of Keith Bennett, believes people have spent many years “looking in the wrong place.” The author from Birkenhead, Wirral, discussed the latest as police revealed they have not yet found human remains following the reported discovery of what Russell believes to be Keith’s skull 60 years after he was killed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Speaking with Anne Diamond and Stephen Dixon on their breakfast show on GB News, Russell explained why he was drawn to a particular location in the…

The Wizz Air Cardiff Half Marathon returned in style on Sunday, pushing fundraising efforts past the twenty million pounds mark since the event first descended on the capital in 2003. Ahead of race day, event organisers Run 4 Wales reported that fundraising figures for this weekend’s race stood at an incredible £2.3 million. This year’s incredible efforts have comfortably broken the £20 million milestone with the sum expected to soar even higher over the coming days, supporting more than 100 charities including NSPCC, British Heart Foundation, Mind, Prostate Cancer UK, Shelter Cymru and Alzheimer’s Society. Reclaiming its traditional autumn date…

A Gwent football club is celebrating after netting funding from a leading housebuilder. Pengam Boys and Girls Football Club Under 8s has bagged £1,000 from Persimmon Homes East Wales through the housebuilder’s Community Champions scheme. The money has been used to purchase new training equipment such as new balls and goals for the children who train out of Blackwood Comprehensive School. Each month Persimmon, donates up to £64,000 a month to good causes in Great Britain, including up to £4,000 across South Wales. Commenting on the donation, Gareth Jones, coach of Pengam Boys and Girls FC Under 8s, said: “We…

Swansea Council’s cabinet has approved the construction cost and the award of the construction contract. In light of the UK’s financial market instability, it also approved detailed discussions for the council to secure funding guarantees from the Welsh Government. The council will now present its final business case to the Welsh Government for their approval. If that’s approved, the council-driven project – which has undergone several years of careful planning and consultation – will then move towards construction, a phased approach from late this year to around summer 2024. The council plans to name the contractor publicly in the coming…

Neath Port Talbot Council has become the first employer in Wales to achieve People Development Partner status from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the professional body for HR and people development. This recognises the council as an organisation with a real commitment to championing better work and working lives. For more than 100 years, the CIPD has been setting professional standards for HR and people development, as well as driving positive change in the world of work. With hubs in the UK, Ireland, Middle East and Asia, it is the career partner of choice for almost 160,000…

Members of Neath Port Talbot Council have unanimously declared a climate emergency. Although the council has previously agreed to support the Welsh Government’s climate emergency declaration, a Notice of Motion by the Wales Green Party’s Cllr Nathan Goldup-John that the council should do so in its own right, was passed by a full meeting of the council on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022. Under the Notice of Motion, the council is now committed to: •    Calling on the UK and Welsh governments to provide the necessary powers and resources to ensure Neath Port Talbot becomes carbon neutral by 2030. •    Publicising…