Author: Rhys Gregory

Sony UK Technology Centre (UK TEC) has opened its search for the latest round of talented applicants to join its renowned Apprentice and Graduate schemes. The Pencoed-based facility, which produces HD and 4K broadcast equipment for worldwide distribution, is launching its Apprentice scheme for the 11th consecutive year on 28th November and its Graduate scheme for the 10th consecutive year on 5th December. Both recruitment initiatives are coordinated by the company’s onsite academy and will enable its participants to gain invaluable knowledge and experience at one of the world’s leading manufacturing sites. The apprenticeship programme provides the opportunity to work…

Astro Physics, Genetics, Psychology, and Business and IT are the academic disciplines studied by the latest recipients of the Peter Hancock Scholarship. Funded by Aberystwyth University graduates Peter Hancock and Pat Pollard, the annual scholarship is awarded to final year students at the University who demonstrate a potential to make a positive contribution to society through their studies and who would benefit from financial support to complete their studies. In 1961 Peter Hancock was awarded a scholarship that enabled him to successfully complete his Geology degree and set him on a course for a successful global academic and business career.…

A new website flagged as having the power to transform the way in which property investors find and make decisions around investment opportunities has been launched and is now live. Invesourced has been launched by two property entrepreneurs: Shane Williams, a property sourcing specialist, and Kelly Hopkins, a property investor. They met via a business transaction earlier this year. The online marketplace is designed to connect property investors with property sourcers across the UK. It allows users to share their respective investment profiles and investment opportunities and connect to secure lucrative opportunities. It represents an efficient, streamlined solution for a…

Swansea Building Society has expanded its head office at 11/12 Cradock Street, Swansea, with the acquisition of the adjoining property – number 13. The refurbishment of the adjoining property is set to take approximately 10 weeks, with a move-in date scheduled for the end of January 2023. The acquisition has been made to help accommodate the Society’s growing workforce, which has grown by 10 percent over the past year. Extensive work is now required on the new property, with a full refurbishment, new windows, and a new roof needed before it can comfortably accommodate the Society’s additional staff. The move…

A research centre focussing on the transport challenges facing society has been officially launched at Aberystwyth University this week (Thursday 1 December 2022) by the Welsh Government’s Deputy Minister for Climate Change, Lee Waters MS. The Centre for Transport and Mobility (CeTraM) brings together researchers from across the University to explore solutions to local, national and global transport issues. The aim is to inform policies and practices which shape the way people and goods move from place to place, and investigate systems which are more sustainable, equitable and accessible. The new research centre will look at the role of new…

The freehold of a B&M Bargains store in Lydney near Chepstow is for sale at auction on December 15th with a guide price of £2.85m. The 14,670-sq ft was formerly a Co-Op supermarket and is leased to the Co-Operative Group at an annual rent of £214,251. The lease, which expires in April 2035, has annual RPI-linked rent reviews with a rental cap (4%) and collar (2%) increases. The property is sublet to B&M and has 100 parking spaces. David Margolis of auctioneer, Acuitus, comments: “Supermarket assets are popular with investors especially when they offer sustainable income from RPI-linked leases. ”…

Bridgend County Borough could become the future home of tennis excellence in Wales after planning permission was granted for an all-new national tennis academy. The council’s Development Control committee has agreed to provide planning permission for the multi-million pound Community Indoor Tennis Centre project, which features nine indoor and six outdoor tennis courts, associated seating and viewing decks, a swimming pool and gym, accommodation wings, offices for Tennis Wales and more. The new centre, which will be extensively landscaped, will be built at a site near Island Farm with both a new access route from the adjacent Science Park and…

Bridgend County Borough Council welcomes the Cabinet’s decision to allow the extension of the Frog Pond Wood Local Nature Reserve to go ahead. The nature reserve, based near the Village Farm Industrial Estate in Pyle, has already been extended to include land known as ‘Village Farm Meadow’. Adjacent to this is another plot that has been naturally colonized over the course of thirty years and has developed into a mixed woodland. This organic process gives the land significant ecological value, as well as adds to the ecological resilience of the Frog Pond Wood Local Nature Reserve within the surrounding landscape.…

Volunteers have again come forward to offer their time and services to spread some festive cheer to people in need at a very special Christmas event in Swansea. On Tuesday (Dec 6) JR Events and Catering, with support from Swansea Council, is throwing open the doors of the Brangwyn Hall to dish up a free two-course Christmas dinner for people who are vulnerable, feel isolated or may be homeless. Lasting from noon until 3pm, the Together at Christmas event will also see representatives from a range of services and charities providing information and help on the day. A pop-up foodbank…

A proposal to replace three Swansea Valley primary schools with a new build £22m school for three to eleven-year-olds in Pontardawe is to go back out to public consultation. Last year, members of Neath Port Talbot Council’s Cabinet approved the new school plan plus a new six-lane swimming pool and specialist learning support centre on a site at Parc Ynysderw, Pontardawe. But the wish by the council’s new Rainbow Coalition administration to review the decision and a successful legal challenge against it in relation to a Welsh Language Impact Assessment by parent group Rhieni Dros Addysg Gymraeg (RhAG) led to…