Author: Rhys Gregory

Wales’ largest music festival, Green Man, today announce new line up additions to their 20th anniversary event, returning once again to the epic surroundings of the Black Mountains deep in the heart of the Brecon Beacons. As one of Wales’ own, Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 are on course for a majestic performance with accompaniment from the National Orchestra of Wales, and following the release of their album ‘Yn Rio’ in autumn 2021. Other home-grown artists set to grace the Green Man stage this summer include south Wales collective El Goodo and UK indie circuit favourite John Mouse, alongside radio…

Irwin Mitchell is opening two new offices in Cardiff and Liverpool as it seeks to enhance the experience for its clients in those regions. The firm, which provides legal and financial services to both individuals and businesses, adopted a Flexible by Choice approach to hybrid working where colleagues choose where and when they work subject to client requirements. While more people are spending time working from home on day-to-day activities, Irwin Mitchell is increasing its number of UK locations to 17 to enhance the client experience by providing more flexible options for them to meet and work with the firm’s…

A leading civil engineering company has secured a new two-year framework with one of the UK’s largest resource and waste management companies. It strengthens a long-term relationship between Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK and FCC Environment that stretches over two decades.  The new multi-million pound contract sees Jones Bros become FCC’s sole contractor on the framework. Jones Bros has been on FCC frameworks since 2011, with the working relationship extending back to around the turn of the millennium.  Senior contracts manager at Jones Bros, Dafydd Elis, will be the overall framework manager having delivered the past four successfully, with Owain…

Prominent Chartered Surveyor firm, Bruton Knowles, – which is located in Cardiff – has been commissioned to advise the Ystadau Cymru, the Welsh Government public assets network, as the public sector in Wales strives to fulfil its ambition to reach a target of Net Zero by 2030. Experts from Bruton Knowles’ National Building Consultancy Team, based out of the Cardiff office at Odd Fellows House, 19 Newport Road, CF24 0AA, are gearing up to support the Ystadau Cymru in their work to decarbonise the public estate. Specifically, the focus for Bruton Knowles will be to deliver a pilot study, focusing…

A month on from the return of the Cardiff Half Marathon to the capital, BHF Cymru is calling on runners and walkers from across Wales and beyond to pull on their trainers and sign up for the Wizz Air Cardiff Half on October 2nd. As this Autumn’s event coincides with the TCS London Marathon 2022, whose official partner is BHF, there’s an opportunity for anyone who doesn’t have a place in London – or doesn’t fancy taking on a full Marathon – to dip their toe in a challenge that will make a real difference, funding life saving heart research.…

A hospital team is saving people’s sight and cutting waiting times by training staff to undertake procedures previously only carried out by doctors. The medical retina team in Singleton Hospital’s ophthalmology department has scored a second Welsh first in the space of a year. Suzanne Martin has become the first orthoptist in Wales to train to inject a sight-saving steroid implant directly into a patient’s eye. The steroid, Ozurdex, is used to treat diabetic macular oedema and retinal vein occlusion, both potentially sight-threatening conditions. Last year, Singleton’s Melvin Cua became the first non-medical practitioner (a clinician who is not a…

Aber Falls Whisky Distillery has grown its presence with supermarket listings across the UK. The multiple award-winning Welsh whisky from Abergwyngregyn – a rural village between the foothills of the Snowdonian mountains and the Menai Strait – will be present in Sainsbury’s, ASDA and Morrisons stores on a national scale over the coming months. The comprehensive supermarket listings give Aber Falls its biggest-ever presence across the UK since the brand’s launch and is part of a long-term expansion plan to grow the Welsh whisky category, while educating retailers and consumers on the brand’s history, and its vision for the future.…

A new Wrexham-based community choir will help a top music festival celebrate its 50th anniversary and two other major milestones. Organisers of the North Wales International Music Festival say the launch concert at St Asaph Cathedral on Saturday, June 4, will be a “big, brassy choral spectacular and it’s going to be loud!” The concert is a curtain raiser for the main festival’s Golden Jubilee event that’s taking place from September 17 to October 1. It’s all being made possible thanks to the support of the Arts Council of Wales and the headline sponsor, the Pendine Arts and Community Trust…

This coming Earth Day, Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I, a proud part of AB InBev, announce a major transport scheme at its Magor Brewery to reduce CO2 emissions, as part of the brand’s ongoing sustainability programme and ambition to reach net zero at its UK breweries by 2026. The brewer has partnered with logistics provider EV Cargo to switch half of the HGV delivery trucks at its Magor brewery from traditional diesel fuel to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), delivering an immediate 92% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per every kilometre driven compared to diesel. The move will significantly reduce CO2 emissions…

More than 100 of the world’s top riders will race through the heart of Mid Wales this summer as The Women’s Tour visits Welshpool for the first time. Stage four of the UCI Women’s WorldTour event will see the riders race from Wrexham and Welshpool on Thursday, June 9. Spectators can watch all the action by the roadside for free and highlights of the race will be shown on ITV4 in the UK, and around the world via Eurosport and GCN. Stage five, on June 10, will see the riders race from Pembrey Country Park for a gruelling uphill finish…