Author: Rhys Gregory

Students from Treorchy Comprehensive School were invited to join the First Minister of Wales, The Rt Hon Mark Drakeford MS at the Wales National Srebrenica Commemoration Event at Cardiff and Vale College on Wednesday  6th July, after being awarded Youth Ambassador Status for a series of innovative projects and campaigns aimed to educate peers and the community. The students were awarded the status last week at a presentation evening hosted at the Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy, by Rhondda Cynon Taf Mayor Councillor Wendy Treeby, after taking part in an innovative new pilot programme run by RCT Community Cohesion Officers.…

Local schoolchildren and other residents visited Merthyr Tydfil’s Glynmil Caravan Park recently to learn about traveller culture. More than 20 pupils from Abercanaid Primary school were treated to a community event held to celebrate Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, which featured folk music played on the lawns and cinema, crafts and play. The children enjoyed an exhibition of boxing – which has been developing at the site for a while with support from the Pride Boxing initiative – along with circus skills and tightrope activities, face painting, Gypsy Traveller scrolling craft and balloon animal creating. The activities were organised by…

First Minister Mark Drakeford will today (Friday July 8) join other British and Irish leaders in Guernsey as the crisis around the future of the UK Government continues to unfold. The leaders will meet to discuss the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, climate change, support for people from Ukraine and the Northern Ireland Protocol at the 37th British-Irish Council summit. The summit is the first meeting of UK First Ministers, Chief Ministers and the Irish Taoiseach after the Prime Minister announced he would resign. Speaking ahead of the summit, First Minister Mark Drakeford said: “The British-Irish Council is designed to foster strong…

New aluminium furnaces, which will play a key part in cutting carbon emissions at Toyota’s Deeside plant, were officially turned on today by Economy Minister Vaughan Gething as he marked National Manufacturing Day. With a 20-year life span these furnaces achieve almost 100% metal yield together with an industry leading reduction in energy usage for melting aluminium. The £1.6m furnaces have been supported by £375,000 from the Welsh Government’s Economic Futures Fund. The project will further lower the environmental impact of the site and will support Toyota in meeting its ambition of being net zero in carbon emissions from manufacturing…

The Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, Dawn Bowden visited Ratio:Production in Aberbargoed to see how the Creative Wales Music Capital Fund has helped to grow the business and their services to the music and events industry. Creative Wales, through the Music Capital Fund awarded more than of £524k to 58 music venues across Wales. The fund has assisted small and medium sized music businesses to improve and increase their commercial outlook and sustainability and contribute to the development and growth of the music industry in Wales. Ratio:Production received funding through the Music Capital Fund to develop a purpose-built recording…

Exciting developments are taking place across Rhyl town centre as projects, backed by the Welsh Government’s Transforming Towns fund and delivered in partnership with Denbighshire Council, take shape. Transforming Towns is supporting work to the value of nearly £25m within Rhyl town centre, improving and adapting underutilised commercial and residential property. Minister for North Wales Lesley Griffiths visited some of the projects in the town centre including the site of the Queen’s Market where the old derelict building has been demolished and work is set to begin on a new facility. This will include a new indoor market hall to…

UK timber importer Premier Forest Products is celebrating the end of a successful financial year with several key appointments and promotions. Premier’s like-for-like turnover has grown by 35 percent to £120M in the last 12 months and the strategic new appointments will be integral for helping the company to keep pace with its continued success and rapid expansion. Terry Edgell, Co-Founder and CEO said: “We are in a good position and preparing for growth despite challenging market conditions. The new appointments will enable us to become more focused in some areas of our expertise, enabling us to better support our…

Small businesses are vulnerable to many risks on a daily basis. Effective risk management is essential to ensure the long-term viability and sustainability of a business venture. More often than not, this responsibility falls on the shoulders of the entrepreneur or owner and this can be an added time pressure. However, it’s absolutely vital that risk management, largely in the form of contingency planning, is an important consideration when you start a business and even more so as it develops. In this article, we’ll explore what contingency planning is and why it’s so important for your small business. What is…

Let’s start with the basics! What is share price? Also known as a “stock price,” it is the cost of purchasing one share of a corporation. A share’s fee is not fixed and varies as per market conditions. It will most likely rise if the company is regarded as doing well and fall if it fails to meet expectations. How to Examine Stock Prices To precisely investigate share prices, you need to apply both fundamental and technical analysis.  Fundamental analysis focuses on determining if a stock is over or undervalued. It accomplishes this by examining each company’s perceived ability to…

Inderjeet Kaur, 29, admitted to having concluded approximately 150 theory and practical driving tests on behalf of candidates between 2018 and 2020. Kaur committed the offences throughout England and Wales including Swansea, Carmarthen, Birmingham and around London. Suspicion grew by staff at the test centres that Kaur was impersonating genuine candidates while taking the test. Following a referral from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), an investigation was launched by Tarian, the regional organised crime team for southern Wales. The investigation uncovered Kaur was offering services to test applicants who had difficulty with the English language. Kaur, from Llanelli, pleaded…