Author: Rhys Gregory

The Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, Dawn Bowden has visited Porth y Rhaw, St Davids, where Dyfed Archaeological Trust are leading a team to learn more about the site – which due to coastal erosion is quickly being lost to the sea. This is the third season of community excavation, and the funding from Cadw, the National Trust and the Nineveh Trust, with support from the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park – along with help from an enthusiastic team of volunteers– is allowing the Trust to recover irreplaceable archaeological objects and information before they are lost to the sea. This…

White tea is a kind of tea that comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. The white fuzz on the young leaves helps to protect the new growth of the tea plant against insects, giving it its name. Because it is hand-picked for only a few months out of the year, white tea is typically more costly than other teas. If you’re thinking about white tea online, here’s some interesting facts worth knowing about it. What Is White Tea? Young, springtime tea leaves from the Fujian province of China make up white tea. The dried tea has withered tiny leaves and…

Digital transformation recruitment specialist Conexus has opened new offices in Cardiff and Barcelona, following a period of stellar growth. The company, founded by Yolk Recruitment founder Dale Williams and industry specialist Connor Wall, adds value to many of the world’s leading organisations by connecting them with the best SAP, Data & Analytics, Cyber Security and Software Engineering talent. Conexus provides permanent and contract recruitment solutions across every level of seniority to blue-chip clients across EMEA, USA, APAC and LATAM. Founded in January 2020, the company has grown by 1200% year-on-year, increasing the team from two to 27 people. Conexus has now…

FOLLOWING Cardiff hosting this year’s BBC 6Music Festival, Sŵn Festival will return this October full-scale for the first time since 2019, rounding off what’s been a remarkable year for Welsh music. Fast becoming an unmissable highlight of the UK new music calendar, Cardiff’s Sŵn Festival today announces the first batch of names for its 2022 edition, taking place across the Welsh capital from October 21st to 23rd. The tastemaker festival presents a perfect mix of established and upcoming artists for a celebration of the diverse, exciting nature of British music and beyond. Speaking of this year’s festivities, Clwb Ifor Bach and Sŵn Festival live manager Adam Williams said, “I cannot…

After eight weeks of tail-wagging fun in and around Cardiff, Caerphilly and Porthcawl, an auction of 38 Snoopy sculptures has raised £156,000 for Dogs Trust. A Dogs Trail with Snoopy saw 115 big and small Snoopy sculptures take to the streets, shopping centres and parks of Cardiff, Caerphilly and Porthcawl between April and June, and attracted thousands of visitors to the region who went walkies on the trail. The auction event at the Coal Exchange on 21st June was hosted by renowned auctioneer, Charles Hanson, and was a pawsome success, with people bidding in the room and online to give…

A new scheme has been launched to give young people free use of bikes to help put them on the road to a brighter future. It’s part of a package of measures put together by Gwynedd-based charity, GISDA – which supports vulnerable young people aged between 16 and 25 – thanks to funding from UK Government’s Community Renewal Fund The aim of the innovative project called TAPI (Tim o Amgylch y Person Ifanc which means the Team Around the Young Person) is to improve the services for young people in Gwynedd in collaboration with other organisations. GISDA have teamed up with…

A Welshpool couple and their friends have launched a series of fundraising events, culminating in the London Marathon on October 2, to raise money to thank a hospital for life-saving surgery on their daughter. Katy and Neil Godsell’s dream came true on October 16 last year when Eleri Faith Godsell was born. But within 24 hours, tiny Eleri was being rushed to Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH) where she had surgery on a bowel complication three days later. Eleri was diagnosed with Hirschsprung disease, a very rare condition which stops part of her bowel functioning properly. She spent three weeks in…

One of the UK’s largest timber suppliers has teamed up with Bangor University to pinpoint the full environmental impact of its products and help place sustainability at the forefront of its distribution activities. Timber and materials supplier James Latham has partnered with the university’s Biocomposites Centre to create a carbon calculator to provide customers with transparency, knowledge, and awareness of the carbon impact of its products. The calculator details the footprint of the entire process, from the carbon contained within the wood’s structure to the manufacturing procedure, delivery, and storage in warehouses, with data provided for more than 70 per…

Austin Partnership, the award-winning civil and structural engineering consultants behind projects such as Goodsheds in Barry and St Fagans National Museum of History, has transitioned into an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT). Established in 1991 by Howard Austin, the consultancy is one of the best known in south Wales with a great reputation for restoring and repurposing historic buildings as well as designing new build schemes for public and private sector clients. It will now be owned by ten of its technical staff from its office in Cardiff. Howard Austin will remain as a director of the business, as will his…

Swansea University’s Professor Serena Margadonna has been named one of the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES). The annual WE50 awards take place on International Women in Engineering Day, 23 June, which this year celebrates inventors and innovators who can #ImagineTheFuture. The award, in association with The Guardian and Ball Corporation, a global supplier of sustainable packaging, recognises the best and brightest women in the engineering sector. It is a celebration of those who identify an unmet need and make it their purpose to create a solution or improve existing products and processes…