Author: Rhys Gregory

Staff at a care home have launched an Easter appeal to raise money for desperate families in war-torn Ukraine. The team at Pendine Park’s Hillbury Care Home is running an Easter raffle and a Name the Teddy Bear competition in aid of the Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. Manager Cindy Clutton said it was unbearable to think that care homes in Ukraine are being decimated by Russian bombing. She said everyone connected with Pendine Park esd  horrified by news reports on the suffering of so many innocent civilians. Cindy said: “With Easter approaching we all agreed it was the right…

FIFA has confirmed the date for Cymru’s World Cup Play-Off Final in Cardiff against Ukraine or Scotland. The match will take place on Sunday, 5 June 2022. The semi-final match between Ukraine and Scotland will be played at Hamden Park in Glasgow on 1 June 2022. The match between the two nations was postponed in March due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, the Ukrainian Association of Football have confirmed that their national team will be able to fulfil the fixture on the rearranged date. The winners of the Play-Off Final will qualify for the FIFA World Cup Finals…

Entrepreneurial students received a major boost for their ideas at Swansea University’s annual Big Pitch Competition, sponsored by Santander Universities. Held in person for the first time in two years, The Big Pitch aims to provide support for students to gain valuable skills and get their ideas off the ground. 19 entrepreneurial students pitched 14 different ideas to a panel of esteemed judges, who awarded more than £10,500, to four start-ups. All students received mentoring, and four businesses were awarded spaces on bespoke accelerator programmes designed by the Enterprise Team in collaboration with national organisations. Students were each given a…

As more and more of us are transitioning to electric vehicles, Rhug Estate has teamed up with InstaVolt to bring in the latest evolution of its service – the installation of rapid electric vehicle car charging points. Eight ultra-rapid EV charging stations, capable of adding 100 miles of range in just 15 minutes, are currently being installed in Rhug’s car park. This will make Rhug Estate the largest private provider of EV charging points in Wales! The installation of the eight new 120kW InstaVolt chargers are in addition to the existing Dual 7kW Type 2 PodPoint chargers located at the…

Two of Wales’ best known organic dairy brands are combining their milk supply for processing and their market experience to increase business and reduce their carbon footprints. Calon Wen and Daioni Organic have agreed to merge their milk supply for processing and production, while retaining their separate brands and identities. This collaboration enables the businesses to achieve scale and efficiencies amidst heightened competition across the global supply chain. Dai Miles, Managing Director of Calon Wen, said that given the strong ambition of both companies to grow, working together on certain operations made sense in today’s marketplace. Citing the recent Gulfood…

Ministry of Furniture is enjoying a surge in demand for some of its most innovative services on the back of companies reinventing the way in which their offices operate, in a post COVID-restrictions environment. A shift to hybrid and flexible working arrangements on a long-term basis has prompted many firms to reconsider the very nature of their office environment – and how much space they need. Hotdesking and mixed working environments are being introduced as companies reimagine the office, scrapping outdated principles of set desks and offices. This approach is also combined with a growing desire to leverage the principles…

A review of other ‘unadopted’ streets in Bridgend County Borough is ongoing in order to determine the costs involved in bringing the streets up to an adoptable standard. The scheme has already been used in Ynyslas, Porthcawl and the street involved will now be maintainable by Bridgend County Borough Council after securing Welsh Government funding. Ynyslas was previously one of thousands of streets across England and Wales not adopted by any authority and, as such, responsibility for its upkeep rested entirely with residents and property owners. But, in a new Welsh Government pilot, the street has been adopted by the…

Newport will be taking part in a specially designed augmented reality trail to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The trail is an experience where players visit seven characters that have come to life from Buckingham Palace and are visiting locations around Newport on a day out. Players, guided by Sir Barnaby Beacon, visit each character including Charlie Crown and Theadora Throne, learning about a different decade in Her Majesty’s 70-year reign and ‘choose their own adventure’ as they progress around the trail. This innovative experience is completely contactless and free – all you need is a smartphone. It’s so easy…

Planned structural work is about to begin on the £8.6m refurbishment of the former YMCA building as a high quality multiple commercial unit economic hub for local businesses. The Grade II Listed building, which has been derelict for more than a decade, will be brought back into use following investment from the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Heritage Enterprise Programme, Welsh Government’s Building for the Future and Transforming Towns programmes and the County Borough Council. As part of the refurbishment, from Tuesday 19 April, John Weaver Contractors will begin to carry out essential work to the rear of the building, from…

The Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Lynne Neagle MS, is encouraging eligible families to sign up for Healthy Start to get healthy food and vitamins for free. Families can get a pre-paid card that is topped up every 4 weeks with credit to buy healthy food – fruit, vegetables, pulses and milk and infant formula. They can also get free Healthy Start vitamins. Currently, nearly 40% of people within Wales who are eligible for the scheme are not claiming it. Healthy Start is available to those who are more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under…