Author: Rhys Gregory

Today, at Cardiff Crown Court, Natalie Steele, 32, was detained under the Mental Health Act for the act of killing her two-year-old son, Reid Steele in August, 2021. Reid Steed Steele’s family have released the following statement: “Our lives have changed forever. We will always have a piece missing from our family. Reid was the most loved, beautiful, funny, intelligent and loving little boy, who touched the hearts of everyone he met. Natalie really was a wonderful mother. “He had a wonderful life which was filled with holidays and fun adventures collecting shells and pebbles on the beach with Natalie.…

With fuel prices still fluctuating across the UK, drivers can save over £200 each year just by taking centimetres off the accelerator pedal. Analysing the top-selling petrol cars of the year, one of Europe’s leading price comparison sites idealo.co.uk has teamed up with Britain’s Coupon Kid Jordon Cox, to calculate the mammoth annual savings Brits can make by getting just five more miles out of a gallon. From Vauxhall Corsa’s, to Kia Niro’s and Nissan Qashqai’s, the data shows that fuel bills can be cut by up to 14% per year. In fact, Kia Sportage owners can save £209.96 (14%),…

Arts4Wellbeing Innovation CIC in Ceredigion is celebrating a £9,900 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund to re-launch its volunteer-led community hubs.  Welcoming the grant, Sarah Wentworth, Cofounder at Arts4Wellbeing Innovation CIC, said: “We would like to express our huge thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund for your support. Arts4Wellbeing initiated seven social creative drop-in hubs in rural areas and trained up community volunteers so that the groups were run by the community for the community. Prior to the first lockdown six were running independently and self-sustaining and the seventh was about to go independent.  The groups had an…

Three new partnerships in Wales are celebrating after being awarded over £8.3 million of money raised thanks to National Lottery players to help end homelessness.  A new scheme to award up to £3 million of funding to address rural homelessness will shortly be announced. Partnerships of organisations from the third, public, and private sectors will use grants from The National Lottery Community Fund to help end homelessness. Plans include early intervention and prevention, specialist trauma-informed services, and support for people who have the most complex needs. Tackling youth homelessness in Cardiff Homelessness charity Llamau will lead a partnership of organisation…

A REVAMPED hair and beauty salon is in full groom after taking on talented new recruits. Hairdressing Lecturer Casey Adlard and Stephanie Parry, an Assessor in Beauty Therapy, have joined the team at Salon Ial. Based at Coleg Cambria’s £21m Hafod site at Yale in Wrexham, they are looking forward to the future and bring more than 30 years of experience to the award-winning institution. Casey, from Wirral, said they are both delighted to get started following a challenging time for the hair and beauty industry during the Coronavirus pandemic. “The work the team here have done to progress the…

The Cambrian Mountains have been named an ‘Area of Astounding Natural Beauty’ in the first ever brand guidelines for the increasingly popular destination. Known as Enaid Mynyddoedd Cambrian (The Spirit of the Cambrian Mountains), the guide published by the Cambrian Mountains Initiative on the 28th of February 2022 on the first ever Cambrian Mountains Day, is based on a bottom-up approach to community regeneration. The release of the guide coincides with the launch of a new website and publication of a new Cambrian Mountains podcast. Dyfodol Cambrian Futures, the Cambrian Mountains Initiative’s flagship project since 2017, has engaged far and…

Wales & West Utilities have launched a new service to help customers who are Deaf or hard of hearing to contact them 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The gas emergency and pipeline service has partnered with SignLive to provide a free 24-hour online interpreting service for British Sign Language (BSL) users when calling the company. SignLive will translate their British Sign Language discussion and relay this information to Wales & West Utilities engineers and customer service teams, which will help improve the accessibility of the company’s services for the BSL community. The launch comes as the company…

Rhug Estate has recently introduced sustainable packaging for its organic meat products. The introduction of new paper-based meat trays, which reduce plastic by around 80 percent compared to traditional trays, is the latest giant stride forward in Rhug’s war against the use of single use plastic. The trays are made of recyclable cartonboard with a liner that can be removed and disposed of prior to recycling. The new meat trays improve the shelf life of Rhug’s organic meat and give the consumer an extra two days on the use-by date – that means a Rhug Organic Steak will stay fresh…

Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society’s Board of Trustees were delighted to receive an award from PAVS (Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services) recently for their determination to hold the county show last year. PAVS formally presented the Trustee Award from the 2021 Pembrokeshire Volunteering Awards to the category winners, Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society, at the Society’s recent AGM. The award judges were astounded by the determination of Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society’s Board of Trustees to put on last year’s two-day county show in incredibly challenging circumstances in order to give members of the rural community the chance to come together and showcase their animals. The…

Years of lockdown has affected the construction industry significantly, despite many restrictions in place the industry has been at the forefront of the economic recovery supporting the economy with the highest activity levels recorded for the past seven years. Increasing demand for building materials has strained the availability of several highly desired materials where some experiencing significant inflation like never before.  Builders faced a real challenge getting materials, especially bricks, blocks, timber, and roofing tiles. Builders’ merchants were working hard to stay ahead and make sure they can supply their loyal customers with the building materials they need. Brexit was…