Author: Rhys Gregory

Everyone loves shopping. It is natural to want to add some new pieces to your closet with the change in season. Although we love to upgrade our closets, sometimes it is not about what we enjoy. Sometimes it is about the needs of the season.  With every new season, there is something that we need to enjoy that new season comfortably. Summers are about to end, and we are almost about to welcome the autumn season. We all are excited to upgrade our wardrobe and closet, but with the tight budget, it is very much impossible.  Just search for online…

British rider Dan Bewley brought it home on Saturday with his Speedway Grand Prix win at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. It comes as Britain’s biggest indoor motorsport event celebrates 20 years of the sport and the first British rider to win in Cardiff since Chris Harris in 2007! A triple celebration in fact, as it’s Dan Bewley’s first-ever SGP win, beating Speedway GP World Championship leader Bartosz Zmarzlik and his fellow Polish star Patryk Dudek, with Leon Madsen taking fourth place. As well as attracting thousands of fans across the globe, it’s a special event for many reasons for people in…

The UK’s hiring boom is set to continue into the next quarter as private sector pay awards reach new highs. For now, the labour market remains incredibly tight and candidates are hard to come by. Employers are pulling out all the stops to attract, and crucially, retain staff. However, with high inflation eroding pay packets and a recession forecast for the end of 2022, the labour market could soon reach its peak. according to the CIPD’s latest Labour Market Outlook report. Pay award expectations have hit a record high in the private sector, rising to a median of 4%, the…

Twinkle-toed residents at a care home danced their way through the decades at a surprise concert courtesy of an award-winning painter. After the long months of lockdown, Pendine Park’s Hillbury Care Home in Wrexham opened its doors to The Adderbury String Quartet for an afternoon concert, much to the delight of residents and staff. The performance was funded by talented artist Angela Scott who hosted a charity art exhibition in honour of her sister, 91-year-old resident and former Mayor of Knutsford Jenny Holbrook, who suffers with dementia. The watercolour painter, who lives at Sodylt Home Farm, Ellesmere, Shropshire, was joined…

It’s ‘go, go, go’ for Hope House Children’s Hospices as it will appear on some of the country’s most famous racing tracks thanks to Ferrari racing team WalkerSport. The Llanymynech-based team will now carry its local children’s hospice’s branding across its car alongside some of its famous sponsors, including Pirelli. Tim Walker, race driver, race instructor and owner of WalkerSport says he is honoured to carry the name of the hospices on tracks such as Brands Hatch, Silverstone, Oulton Park and Donnington. “Hope House is an incredible local charity and we are proud to be associated with them and represent…

A 24-year-old business owner is hoping to make his new leisure venue all the rage in Swansea Matthew Griffin, 24, opened the first Lumberjack Axe Throwing on Catherine Street, Cardiff in July, 2019 aged just 21. Now, thanks to a £35,000 micro loan from the Development Bank of Wales, Matthew has opened a Lumberjack site on Dilwyn Street, Swansea. As well providing a venue for axe throwing – an increasingly popular indoor sport – the new venue will see the addition of Wales’ first permanent “rage room”, which gives customers the chance to work out their stresses by freely smashing…

The UK arm of global packaging specialists, Tri-Wall, are continuing their ambitious expansion programe with the acquisition of The Corrugated Case Company, a Derbyshire-based sheet plant manufacturer. Tri-Wall UK Ltd, with its HQ in Monmouth, has signed a deal to take over CCC located in Chesterfield, with a clear intention to expand operations, invest in equipment and grow jobs. Founded in 1996, The Corrugated Case Company has become one of the UK’s leading specialists in the design and manufacture of corrugated packaging products. With a frim reputation of quality, innovation and delivering value for its customers, CCC is a great…

The hunt is on for one very lucky person who has just won £2,000 by playing the Crackerjackpot lottery which supports Tŷ Hafan children’s hospice.   The winning ticket – number 000074 – for the weekly Crackerjackpot Jackpot draw was bought in Tŷ Hafan’s shop on High Street, Lampeter, on 29 July at 11:46. The buyer paid cash and also bought an item of jewellery from the shop at the same time.   The lucky winner has 12 months to come forward and claim their winnings before the ticket expires and the prize is lost.  Matt Bolger, Lottery Manager for Crackerjackpot, said: “This £2,000 prize is a substantial amount of money and could make a…

On Friday 19 August Lloyd Rees from Brecon will attempt to break the British shearing record by shearing over 873 lambs in just nine hours to raise funds for Parkinson’s UK and the Wales Air Ambulance. Lloyd, aged 28, has been shearing since a young age, having been brought up on a sheep and beef family farm in Llandefalle. Since then, he has entered many competitions, such as the Young Farmers’ Club county rally machine-shearing and hand-shearing competitions, and travelled to New Zealand to pursue his shearing career. In 2019, Lloyd sheared 725 lambs as part of the four stand team…

Age Cymru is urging older people in Wales who are living on a low State Pension to check their eligibility and apply for pension credit before 18 August 2022 to receive the £650 cost-of-living payment scheduled for this coming autumn.  The £650 payment, announced by the UK Government back in May, will be paid to those who receive Pension Credit in two lump sums of £326 and £324. The first was due to be paid last month and the second in the autumn. New, successful applicants will receive the full £650 payment.  To receive the extra payment, older people must have…